Posted on 09/22/2020 5:17:21 AM PDT by marktwain
The use of no-knock warrants should be severely curtailed. It is incompatible with the Second Amendment.
Even if they are useful in some situations, the abuse of these shows that police can’t be trusted with them.
Her drug dealing boyfriend shouldn’t have been hiding his money in her place and then talking about it over prison telephones.
We have seen too many mistakes with no-knock warrants.
They serve no useful purpose.
What does that have to do with no-knock warrants?
From what my kids that live over there say, there is a lot more to the story. They didn’t have the wrong apartment for one
“Even if they are useful in some situations, the abuse of these shows that police can’t be trusted with them.”
One “mistake” is too many.
“Mayors, city council members, and police chiefs are not personally accountable for the funds. Taxpayers will pick up the tab.”
While the mayors, city council members, police chiefs and the 10-12 officers kicking in the door probably couldn’t personally scrape up the financial settlements awarded in these cases...it wouldn’t take too many cases where these folks ARE required to pay those settlements...to stop no-knock raids.
This entire article begins with a false premise.
It’s too easy for no-knock raids to end in tragedy like this one. Of course the people inside think it’s a home invasion and may start to shoot and the police shoot back. (Of course, it could happen the other way around too.) And for what? A few drugs.
THE REPORT:
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63943132/breonna-taylor-summary-redacted1
PASS IT ON ...
The police did announce who they were — they stated it before they knocked down the door... this is a useful event for the left - so certain details were LEFT out of the article....
That goes against common law and defeated the point of having a 4th amendment. Any link to the claim of a no knock history at the time of the founding. Knock and announce has/was always the given in our history.
Says the police? You trust .gov? They also said they didn’t have body cams. That was a lie, they did. Other citizens said they didn’t announce.
virtually anyone who has a gun who gets startled in the middle of the night will respond with pulling a weapon. I can’t imagine why this was ever an option for law enforcement. Hopefully this will rid everyone of this over reach. guilty or not this just seems unconstitutional to me.
(2) The officers should NOT be prosecuted, since the boyfriend initiated a firefight, and they returned fire.
(3) The REAL TRUTH of who "EMS worker" Ms. Taylor was and her criminal activities for a major drug dealer and murderer is NOT being told to the public.
For a White killed in a raid there would not be any riots, and the settlement would be $10,000 5 years later.
>What does that have to do with no-knock warrants?
They knocked and announced
Louisville paid the Danegeld.
But the Danes aren’t leaving.
Police “announcing themselves” means nothing if they are at the wrong house breaking down the door. While the owner believes they have no reason to be there.
Criminals often will yell “police” during home invasions to get people’s guard down.
The standard for even a “knock” warrant needs to be MUCH higher since the wrong house in a 2A state is very likely to get someone random killed.
EVERY step of the warrant process must be recorded and reviewed along the way. There must be greater oversight and very serious consequences for botched raids. Murder charges and seizure of all assets for any police/judges that did not follow procedure. Followed by the death penalty
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