Posted on 09/28/2020 11:08:06 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
In spite of the findings of an independent investigation and the rulings of a Kentucky grand jury, leftists are still claiming that Louisville Metro Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly is a “murderer.”
Mattingly was one of the officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor.
Taylor was the 26-year-old black woman who was killed on March 13 when police officers executed a warrant on her apartment during a narcotics investigation.
As leftists continue to defame Mattingly’s character, the officer’s lawyer has promised that legal recourse will be sought out to right the many wrongs of the left’s ignorant claims.
Many of these accusations are coming out because the left has successfully sold a series of lies about the Breonna Taylor case — all of which were debunked in the Kentucky attorney general’s independent investigation.
Despite numerous reports to the contrary, the investigation found that the warrant was for Taylor’s apartment, officers repeatedly knocked and announced themselves before entering and Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot Mattingly in the leg before the officers returned fire.
All of this evidence points to the fact that Mattingly is innocent of any wrongdoing.
Because of that fact, Mattingly’s lawyer, Todd McMurtry, has threatened these leftists with lawsuits.
In a since-deleted tweet, McMurtry shared a video of Mattingly being loaded into the back of a truck after he was shot in Taylor’s apartment on March 13.
McMurtry captioned it with: “They called him a ‘murderer,’ when all he did was defend himself.” McMurtry revealed in an email sent to the Louisville Courier-Journal on Friday that he represented Mattingly “with regard to affirmative claims he has against people who called him a ‘murderer.’ These statements are defamatory and actionable.”
McMurtry went on to confirm that the intent was to file civil lawsuits against those who make and have made such statements.
He’ll certainly have many examples to choose from, given the fact that pretty much every member of the left has been unified in their ignorant condemnation of Mattingly and the other officers involved in the shooting.
Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spread the false narrative on Thursday, labeling the killing of Breonna Taylor a “murder,” despite the fact that the police were found to be justified in returning fire. “Just think if it were your daughter, your sister, your cousin, your relative, your friend who was murdered by the police and the charging decision held no one accountable for her death,” Pelosi said.
Hopefully, Mattingly will see some damages for this baseless slander.
Maybe then leftist politicians and mainstream media figures will think twice the next time they want to blindly fire heavy accusations.
Nevertheless, if doing so furthers their social justice narrative, nothing is going to stop the left from attacking police officers in this way.
Would love for it to happen - but the fact the police officer is an employee of the city means that people have wide leeway to say whatever they want to about him.
Maybe hell will freeze over.
I hope Nancy chokes on $20 ice cream.
Go for punitive AND exemplary damage, and grab their ill-gotten assets. Soros is somewhere in this. Grab his, too, under RICO.
Between the Christian School youth in WA DC with MAGA hats suing for damages and now this police officer suing, I am liking the direction that things are starting to head. Soon, maybe the Left will have no money for anything and a fear to say anything.
John Pierce and Lin Wood engage in some pretty big talk about owning Twitter and Facebook. We can only hope a new Supreme Court will enhance the individual’s rights vs. the left’s big tech slanders. If big tech starts bleeding billions into the water, the lawyer feeding frenzy would be glorious.
Hopefully, Mattingly will see some damages for this baseless slander.....
Some of the protesters/accusers do not have two nickels to their name.
The media perform zero fact checking, ignore exculpatory evidence, and fail to gather information. The media report statements from Politicians, as if the Politician would ever say something that hurts his re-election prospects.
I would include media in civil lawsuits.
...the lawyer feeding frenzy would be glorious....
The ambulance chasers and slip/fall Lawyers would be rejuvenated. They would be seen as hero’s to move the needle back to normal.
I agree that Breonna Taylor was not the angel everyone made her out to be, but this was still very sloppy police action.
Yes, we have sat back long enough and not gone after such rhetoric that destroys lives.
I like the direction and we need more judges who are not activists too.
Would like to see them sue Governor Cuomo (he called it a murder at a very public press conference).
Don’t sleep with criminals and you won’t get caught up in shootouts in the wee hours.
What do the leftists say about Breonna Taylor who had a dead guy in her rental car?
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