Posted on 08/04/2022 2:55:20 PM PDT by Morgana
Four current and former Louisville Police officers have been charged by the FBI in connection with the deadly raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment in 2020.
Ex-LPMD detectives Joshua Jaynes, 40, and Brett Hankison, 46 are all facing federal civil rights charges for their actions in the Taylor investigation.
Current LMPD Sergeant Kyle Meany, 45, and detective Kelly Hanna Goodlett are facing the same charges.
Jaynes was fired by the Louisville Metro Police in January 2021, in Kentucky, for adding a false statement to his sworn affidavit for the 'no knock' warrant to search Taylor's apartment over her drug dealer ex-boyfriend.
As a result EMT Taylor, 26, was fatally shot by LMPD officers on 13 March 2020, sparking widespread protests around the country.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke today announced the charges - which include violating Taylor's civil rights, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force, and obstruction offenses.
They claim that the LMPD’s Place Based Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for Taylor’s home, which then led to her death.
Garland also confirmed that Hankison, who was cleared of criminal charges earlier this year, has been charged with two two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law.
Until now Hankison was the only officer to be charged in relation to Taylor's death, after firing shots through her window and sliding glass door.
He was found not guilty of three counts of wanton endangerment for firing shots into a neighboring apartment.
Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker returned fire with a shot that struck an officer in the leg.
Police then opened fire, hitting Taylor six times and killing her in the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Boy, if I didn’t know any better I would say —
Watch any FBI testimony before Congress since about 1994, and it is crystal clear they are not threatened or subordinate to Congress at all.
FBI SOP is to blow off all three branches of government. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial government are afraid of them.
They routinely, and publically blow off judges orders, SCOTUS rulings, and laugh or refuse to cooperate with legislators, even while in their presence, with main stream media capturing it all.
I would say it can only be assumed the DOJ and its SS/FIB thug department are a superior 4th or 5th branch of government, with traditional government branches answering to them.
The 5th and most superior branch is the Pentagon with its genetically related IC.
They literally control or get rid of anyone they don’t like, really from all three branches of “Constitutuonal” government.
As these superior 4th and 5th branches operate outside of, and above Constitutional law, they are free to abuse the US Constitution any way they want, and are therefore also capable of secret deals with the Chinese, Russian, or any other entity they so chose, such as Trillion dollar NGO’s tied to those or other governments and created elites.
Traditional federal government branches are only necessary for making persuasive psyop theater for the masses.
Of course, only if I knew better...
BLM are supporters are another site.
It was a signed no knock warrant. There is no bodycams for the entry. The only civilian witness has changed his story on hearing a knock and warning to entry.
It's good that Cops know who their friends are so they can act accordingly.
The one serious Police crime that occurred in this incident was firing blindly into two occupied dwellings.
There is no acceptable excuse for this cowardice from a police officer.
Yeesh.
Brandon Tatum did several excellent videos breaking it all down, and on his website as well. Taylor was knee deep in all of it.
Yeah, it’s kinda hard to form a very specific opinion on this case(s).
Known drug dealer, woman with a history too, cops falsifying important stuff, then shooting rather wildly, the woman gets killed, the cops walk mostly, until. A breath of clear air from the DOJ? Or just political hackery and thuggery, more of the same behavior with a pen and legal brief, rather than small arms and such... I no longer think there are many “good guys” in the mix.
With so little crime going on the fbi has a lot of spare time….
Taylor’s homes was treated as knock and announce. The police knocked several times and gave Taylor well over a minute to get to the door. The no knock warrant pertained to a list of residences, however they believed Taylor’s home didn’t meet the parameters of a no knock since the police believed her violent felon boyfriend was not present.
Falsified affidavit to obtain warrant, throw the book at them hard.
When cops lie to judges to get warrants, they are knowingly breaking the law and violating our rights.
I don’t care about how their motives were pure or that they were zealous in their pursuit of criminals. Follow the damn constitution.
I will say Libs are good at retribution
deprivation of rights under the law of colored
I think that the FBI and DOJ have a problem with some falsely sworn FISA warrents? Maybe they should concentrate on their own perjury first.
I’m pretty sure that the charges are primarily against a group of detectives that knowingly cobbled together a fake affidavit to get the warrant and one cop that opened up indiscriminately which resulted in shooting into a neighbor’s apartment.
From what I have read the cops that were actually executing the warrant, and got shot at, are NOT the ones under indictment.
If the DoJ is going to prosecute cops that INTENTIONALLY make up stuff just to get a warrant then I really don’t have much of a problem with that.
“well over a minute to get to the door” is not a reasonable amount of time after 10 pm.
Warrants should only be served in daylight hours. Anything else is asking for a cluster****, as has been shown again and again by cases like this.
Gotta gin up the protests to lead into the election.
Meritless Garland and Mr Potato Head won’t give up. Won’t have the advantage of trying this case in a sh_thole DC court ... might be a hell of a lot tougher. Remember, the process is the punishment ... when found innocent they can’t do anything to retrieve the funds spent or their reputations.
It wasn’t a no knock warrant.
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