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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Good!
Riot’s begin in 3...2...1
Great decision.
I hope someday you can get the boot polish off your tongue
Finally, a judge with a brain.
You don't want me to school you and this thread with the truth about St. Bre so shut your hole. Now.
How are the cops gonna get their reputation back?!
I saw a report a couple years ago saying she rented a car in her name and gave the keys to the boyfriend. She later returned the car to the rental company, dropping it off after hours. The next day dead body was found in that car.
> Walker said he believed an intruder was bursting in. <
And I would have believed the exact same thing. Plainclothes police knocked on his door shortly after midnight. Then they quickly broke the door down.
I live in a house. So I would have retreated. But if I could not retreat, I would NOT have thought, “I don’t see any police car lights. And I don’t hear any sirens. Nevertheless, I’m sure it’s the police.”
This whole thing stinks. The cops were looking for someone who wasn’t even there.
Back the blue. Until they knock down your door in the middle of the night.
You'll be lucky if you don't have to get the boot polish out of your ass if you keep making stupid comments like that.
Permit me to add something to my post #9. I certainly can see aggressive police action in a hostage situation, or some other situation where innocent lives are at immediate risk.
That was not the situation here. The cops thought a drug dealer was in the apartment. Have two cops sit on the apartment. Arrest him when he comes out. No need for extreme SWAT tactics.
There’s one “family” who is going to win the America lottery. They still have a second chance when the Voo Doo Queen and her “White Dudes” start dealing out the Free Money for People With Black Skin millions.
This stuff must end. It has no place in a free society.
These crooked cops should be fed to starving hogs while alive.
Hope Louisville has good fire insurance.
Will this be announced from the rooftops repeated for years, loudspeakers blaring ???
> These crooked cops… <
I don’t know if they are crooked. But they are certainly out of control. In the old days, cops were peace officers. Now they are law enforcement officers - with the emphasis on “enforcement”.
Everyone is a potential enemy to them. So treat them as such. And every situation could well require infantry assault tactics.
I get that policing is much more difficult today. I really do! But my goodness. It should be good guys vs. bad guys. It shouldn’t be police vs. good guys vs. bad guys.
I don’t think those officers should be charged and that $12 million in compensation is ridiculous. However, when they break into houses in the middle of the night that sort of thing will happen. They will get shot at and fire back, etc.
About Freaking Time.
Now if only Chauvin and the other cops wrongly convicted of murdering Floyd would get the same brand of justice.
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.
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