Posted on 08/23/2024 3:22:48 PM PDT by algore
A federal judge has thrown out major felony charges against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor's door before they fatally shot her.
U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson's ruling declared that the actions of Taylor's boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid, were the legal cause of her death, not a bad warrant.
Federal charges against former Louisville Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany were announced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 during a high-profile visit to Louisville. Garland accused Jaynes and Meany, who were not present at the raid, of knowing they had falsified part of the warrant and put Taylor in a dangerous situation by sending armed officers to her apartment.
But Simpson wrote in the Tuesday ruling that "there is no direct link between the warrantless entry and Taylor's death." Simpson's ruling effectively reduced the civil rights violation charges against Jaynes and Meany, which had carried a maximum sentence of life in prison, to misdemeanors.
The judge declined to dismiss a conspiracy charge against Jaynes and another charge against Meany, who is accused of making false statements.
When police carrying a drug warrant broke down Taylor's door in March 2020, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a shot that struck an officer in the leg. Walker said he believed an intruder was bursting in. Officers returned fire, striking and killing Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, in her hallway.
Simpson concluded that Walker's "conduct became the proximate, or legal, cause of Taylor's death."
"While the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events that ended in Taylor's death, it also alleges that (Walker) disrupted those events when he decided to open fire" on the police, Simpson wrote.
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These flipping no-knock raids are THE PROBLEM!
I guarantee that if the cops were to come busting into my house in the middle of the night, there would be some shots fired from me.
And it would be THEIR fault.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
The police were in the process of rolling up the gang that night and served a legal arrest l warrant on Taylor's apartment
Either Brianna or the boyfriend number two fired the first shots at the police officer. The officer was shot through the door and was hit by a bullet in the groin with life threatening injuries.
He returned fire and hit Taylor.
The police had a legit warrant and were in the process of rolling up her entire gang that evening.
Either Brianna or her second boyfriend ( the leader of a rival gang) fired the first shot through the door and hit a police officer who returned fire and hit Taylor. The gun they used to shoot the officer was a stolen street gun
It was a good shooting on the part of the police.
“Horrible ruling.
Any cop who falsifies a warrant should be responsible for any and every action of the warrant. Otherwise you end up with cops lying without consequences.”
See now there is the meat of the situation right there. It is criminal fraud that got someone killed. A civilian would be hung for the same. But to the blue line cult this minor inconvenience is insignificant and a non issue, not important at all. God’s anointed Divine Angels in blue are always faultless. Besides, no loss, she was just black and not even a human anyways.
“Ms Say Her Name was a hard core gangster running a big gang for her other gang leader boyfriend who was in jail. The gang was dealing all kinds of poison like fentayl, crack, meth and heroin to the people in a large area of town
The police were in the process of rolling up the gang that night and served a legal arrest l warrant on Taylor’s apartment
Either Brianna or the boyfriend number two fired the first shots at the police officer. The officer was shot through the door and was hit by a bullet in the groin with life threatening injuries.
He returned fire and hit Taylor.”
Yeah, that was the “I swear I didn’t have my hand in the cookie jar” cover up after the fact.
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The police were in the process of rolling up the gang that night and served a legal arrest l warrant on Taylor's apartment
Either Brianna or the boyfriend number two fired the first shots at the police officer. The officer was shot through the door and was hit by a bullet in the groin with life threatening injuries.
He returned fire and hit Taylor.”
Yeah, that was the “I swear I didn't have my hand in the cookie jar” cover up after the fact.
Not sure what mean by that but if you mean it was part of a police cover up you are sadly mistaken and could not be more wrong.
My information comes directly from the official transcript of the grand jury investigation which was meticulous documented with evidence going back at least 5 years. It includes audio recordings of telephone calls from jail between Taylor and her boyfriend which are unimpeachable. Brianna also rented a car a few years earlier that was found with two murdered gangsters in it.
It is 100% true and accurate .
The transcript was released by the DA who was trying to rail road the police officers involved but who failed to get an indictment on the cops in a totally favorable venue filled with black jurors who wanted to roast the cops but couldn't because of the evidence.
The DA made the Grand Jury transcripts public because there were threats of violence against him for not succeeding in getting an indictment
Her family should have to give back the $12 million they milked from the City of Louisville. They claimed in their suit that neighbors said they never heard the cops identify themselves. I have no clue if that was ever verified. Anybody can say they heard something after the fact, especially in a situation that includes police officers. I’ve found no specific time for when the cops actually entered her home doing a search. All the media provides is “the early hours of the morning.” So depending on the precise time in the early hours of the morning, who is to say how many people in the neighborhood were actually up at that time? And the only time neighbors are willing to offer info, is when an incident includes police. Any other time they “didn’t see or hear nothin’”.
They had no-knock warrants as part of an ongoing investigation into drug trafficking.
They had a “ no knock warrant “
Yet they announced their presence, ordering them to open the door.
The “ drug dealer” shot through the closed door at the police.
The police returned fire killing the drug dealers accomplice.
That homicide victim was the brother of Damarius Bowman, one of Glover’s “associates” who has been arrested with Glover numerous times.
Glover was arrested and cut a plea deal. Jefferson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry sentenced Jamarcus Glover to five years of probation, calling the sentence, "very generous." The sentence was part of the plea deal for Glover that did not include jail time. So Glover walked away "Scott free" despite firing his gun first and hitting one of the officers in the leg. It was only after they were fired on that they fired back. Hopefully this horrible nightmare is over and done with for the officers. Leave it to Feds to try to hang two cops who were trying to defend themselves that night.
How's that? Either you have a comprehension problem, or you took the words of the commenter whose words I quoted as mine.
I have no sympathy for Taylor or Glover, the asshole who fired first and hit one of the officer's in the leg, but the bastard got a plea deal for 5 years probation, no jail time, while the DOJ decided they wanted to hang the cops out to dry.
+1
Kamala Harris hardest hit.
Then this should make you cream your jeans: "Meany still faces one charge of false statement to federal investigators, which carries a maximum of five years in prison. Jaynes faces charges of falsification of records in a federal investigation and conspiracy to falsify records and witness."
And we know that the DOJ is an honest, law abiding agency that doesn't abuse their power, right?
And you believe that because the DOJ said it happened?" Anybody that still thinks the DOJ is credible has a screw loose.
Excellent.
The Russian people had been disarmed: first by the Tsar, then by the Bolsheviks.
We haven’t.
When justice is not found within the system, people will seek justice outside the system. I think there is not yet a critical mass of people seeking justice outside the system. I think more people are thinking about it now, and not recoiling from the thought, than at any time in the past century.
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