Posted on 09/15/2020 6:57:53 AM PDT by RandFan
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The city of Louisville will pay several million dollars to the mother of Breonna Taylor and install police reforms as part of a settlement of a lawsuit from Taylor’s family, The Associated Press has learned.
The settlement would be the largest sum paid by the city for a police misconduct case, according to a person who has seen the settlement. The person asked to not be identified because the settlement has not been announced publicly.
Taylor’s shooting by police serving a narcotics warrant at her home has sparked months of protests in Louisville and calls nationwide for the officers to be charged in her death. The state’s attorney general, Daniel Cameron, is investigating police actions in the March 13 shooting.
The lawsuit, filed in April by her mother, Tamika Palmer, alleged the police used flawed information when they obtained a “no-knock” warrant to enter the Black woman’s apartment in March. Taylor, 26, was shot several times and police found no drugs at her home.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Is there a Kentucky Ping List out there?
Haven’t been back for two weeks, and the city will burn already - as if this will appease the mob...
What police misconduct? Serving a legal warrant?
The state’s attorney general, Daniel Cameron, is investigating
He's a black Republican. He'll conduct a fair investigation, but the city has caved before the investigation is even complete. Cheaper they probably figure.
I'm not a fan of no-knock raids but according to what I read her boyfriend opened fire at the cops when they entered. They returned fire and Taylor was killed. I think the boyfriend survived.
Which happened first? Did the police shoot first or return fire after the boyfriend shot? The article structure implies the former but that makes less sense than the latter. Sequence Matters
No knock raids cause this crap. Put yourself in their shoes. All of the sudden, people bust into your home with no warning. If that happens to me, you bet your behind that I’m grabbing the shotgun that’s right by my bed and the Mrs. is grabbing the pistol right by her side.
No knock raids are evil.
It wasn’t a legal warrant. There were no drugs in the house. And the person they say there were trying to arrest was already in custody. Of course the boyfriend opened fire when they kicked in the door. Wouldn’t you?
The money is good I suppose, but what we need is for these cops to go to jail. They committed murder. Pure and simple. Murderers should be in jail.
Who said drug dealing doesn’t pay?
The basis of that ruling was that there was no evidence the homeowner even knew they were police officers. He was legally armed, and simply shot them because he thought they were breaking into his home in a strong-armed robbery attempt.
I agree.
Actually, it is misconduct. They served a warrant on the wrong house, did not announce themselves and did not confirm targets before shooting - they just started blasting the general area. Oh, and the person they were looking for was already in custody.
The reason the city caved is because they just got caught lying about “no body cams, you muuuuuuuust believe us.”
These days, without verifiable, raw video it's tough to know what's true.
Boyfriend originally said she did the shooting.
Brandon Tatum on Officertatum.com has a lot on this.
The money will be completely gone in 2-3 years.
The previous record was 8.5 million, so this settlement is several, several millions.
There have been questions raised about the veracity of the information on warrant affidavit which would have made the warrant void.
Sloppy police work is just one of the things that make no knock warrants so very, very dangerous.
Free people shouldn’t tolerate judges who rubber stamp warrants.
12 million
The cops claimed that, but then they also claimed they weren’t wearing body cams. They were recently exposed as actually having worn body cameras, where the city was denying they were and that as a result there certainly wasn’t any video...
Kinda makes it hard to believe the claim they identified themselves.
There are definitely questions that need answered.
Burning cities, murdering innocent people and overthrowing the government won't get those answers, though.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.