This completely misstates the case. I have followed it.
The police had a no-knock warrant. It was uncalled for. There has not been any indication her boyfriend was a drug dealer. He had no criminal history and had a concealed carry permit.
When the police started breaking down the door, he fired at them, thinking it was a home invasion.
The police fire 22 rounds into the apartment. None hit the boyfriend, but several hit Breonna and killed her in her bed.
Breonna had no criminal history and was an emergency responder herself.
When I was young kind of the same thing happened to me. Except I didn’t reach for my gun. They were after my boyfriend who was kind of a bad boy. I had never dealt drugs in my life but the raid was supposedly because I was dealing. Once they were in and going through my apartment I realized what they were after. Me to flip on him. They arrested me for 8, yes 8, whites they found in my purse. Next day someone from the DA’s office showed up to talk to (threaten) me about prosecution if I didn’t tell them every thing I knew about his misdeeds. I didn’t and they had to drop the case.
No. LMPD were already inside, had already identified themselves, and found Walker and Taylor crouched side-by-side at the end of the hallway leading to the bedrooms, when Walker opened fire on Officer Mattingly.
"None hit the boyfriend, but several hit Breonna and killed her in her bed."
Taylor was not in her bed.
"I have followed it."
Really? REALLY?
The no-knock warrant was valid. You may disagree with no-knock warrants, but on the night of March 13, this warrant had the full weight of Kentucky statutory law, signed by Jefferson Circuit Judge Mary Shaw.
From USA Today, the Gannett cage liner that also owns the Courier-Journal: "We rate the claim that officers did not have a warrant to enter Taylor's apartment as FALSE".
Taylor was named because the target -- Jamarcus Glover -- was her ex-boyfriend. Glover was arrested that same night for trafficking and firearm offenses.
According to the warrant, "Glover had been seen getting a package from Taylor's home in January and driving to a "known drug house."
The USPS postal inspector said, "a different agency had asked in January to look into whether Taylor's home was receiving suspicious mail", but that was never the question. The question was, was Glover was picking up packages from Taylor's apartment, and that answer was 'yes', as Glover had repeatedly been witnessed by LMPD as "making frequent trips" to and from Taylor's address, which LMPD backed up with video.
BTW, that postal inspector has gone off the grid.
A month later, LMPD executed another successful no-knock against Glover and filed additional trafficking charges.
On the night of March 13, the officers repeatedly knocked and announced themselves. The idea that Walker and Taylor thought it was a home invasion is bullshit -- what kind of home invasion knocks repeatedly; further, there is already testimony from a Taylor neighbor on the night of March 13 who badgered the police to, "leave that girl alone":
"As police prepared to serve the warrant, a man appeared on an outside staircase and began arguing with officers and telling them to "leave that girl alone or something like that," Mattingly told investigators on March 25. The neighbor "was being belligerent," Mattingly said. "I don't know why. I mean, I don't know if he was drunk or what. But he was being very hostile from the get-go. As soon as the contact was made he was just arguing back."
"There was probably six or seven different contacts of multiple banging on the doors and after that each one of them had, 'Police! Come to the door. Search warrant.'" - Mattingly, who said he knocking and yelling while Hankison also was yelling that police were serving a search warrant.
"After he entered the apartment, Mattingly said he stepped out from the doorway and then saw a man and a woman "perpendicular to each other, side by side shoulder to shoulder." Neither said a word, he said."My brain was going: What is this, you know? This isn't normal. It's not the normal way people stand in a house together," he said. The man, Walker, was in a "shooting stance," he said.
Inside the apartment, Mattingly said he could "see enough to see a male on the right, a female on the left. Could I identify their faces? No. But I could actually see the handgun in his hand. I remember seeing the barrel of that soon as we turned that corner. And as soon as it did, the flash and the heat.
After he was hit in the leg, Mattingly said, he fired four rounds before trying to leave the apartment. He said he did not see anyone else fire shots, although he heard them once he was in the parking lot."
So that you are completely aware of the facts, twang, no one disputes Walker fired first, hitting Officer Mattingly near the femoral artery, nearly killing him (he spent 3 days in the hospital). Walker then dived out of the way, knowing the police would return fire.
Jefferson County Prosecutor Thomas Wine has specifically stated he would not "rule out the possibility of filing charges again after the FBI and other agencies had completed their reviews of the shooting."
Now, let's cut to the chase. You want to know what kind of low-life Walker is?
Walker was indicted by a Jefferson County GJ for attempted murder in zero time, and just as quickly, the indictment was dismissed by Wine -- who is now trying to cover his ass desperately. He had dreams of being Mayor L O F L.
Conrad and the police union pilloried Judge Olu Stevens (who is - wait for it ... African-American) for releasing Walker on home incarceration, and the result? Conrad was out on his ass.
Now as for Saint Breonna. After dropping out of the University of Kentucky, she found a job with the City of Louisville from Jan16 - Nov16, in training. She was an EMT from Jun16 - Nov16. Five months. Five. Freaking. Months.
She called in her resignation on Nov 16. Called it in.
Additionally, WAVE3 reported more embarassing details surrounding Saint Breonna's termination that were erased and memory-holed in 12 hours. Suffice it to say, she was booted from emergency service work. Permanently.
Relatives said after Saint Breonna's firing as an EMT, she had worked 2 hospitals as as ER techician. However, Bianca Austin, Taylor’s aunt, said Walker had just accepted a job to work at UPS.
UPS? UPS pays max $12 hr to start for box slingers - they have exactly one nurse on staff, so St. B be slinging boxes. ER techs with EMT cert should be making $18-$20 in Louisville hospitals and even more for overnight shifts.