here it is for those of you who don’t want to hear Tommy’s take on it.
Ping
Bottom line: “no knock” raids create too much of a risk of a shootout, with occupants legitimately thinking they are being attacked by home invaders.
There needs to be a standard where police more clearly announce themselves, which would include sounding siren and doing their lights, so that everyone inside knows that it is the police there.
How long until the cops absolve themselves of any wrongdoing?
And idiots declare it a good shoot?
How bout double checking? Unforgivable.
Maybe you could say who Breonna Taylor was.
(Excerpt)
Who was Breonna Taylor?
Taylor was a certified EMT who had two jobs at hospitals in Louisville. Her mother, Tamika Palmer, told The Louisville Courier Journal that Taylor was a young woman who adored her family above all else and who had made plans to succeed.
“She had a whole plan on becoming a nurse and buying a house and then starting a family. Breonna had her head on straight, and she was a very decent person,” Palmer said. “She didn’t deserve this. She wasn’t that type of person.”
Family members said that she was kind, hardworking and honest.
“She really did not deserve to end her life so horrifically,” said Taylor’s aunt, Bianca Austin.
Mother of EMT killed by Louisville police speaks out: Breonna Taylor ‘didn’t deserve this’
Why were police at Breonna Taylor’s home?
Taylor was not the main target of the narcotics investigation that prompted Louisville Metro Police officers to enter her home. But officers had a search warrant for her and her apartment that included a “no-knock” provision, meaning that police could enter her house without identifying themselves as law enforcement.
Records show that police believed that a suspect in the narcotics investigation, Jamarcus Glover, used Taylor’s home to receive mail, keep drugs or stash money earned from the sale of drugs.
However, according to the lawsuit filed by Taylor’s family, police had identified Glover at a home more than 10 miles from Taylor’s apartment before they executed the warrant at her residence.
There is no body camera footage available. Police Chief Steve Conrad said the Criminal Interdiction Squad does not use that equipment.
Far more disturbing than Coronavirus. These incidents are worth a shutdown until there is accountability. Absolutely ridiculous.