Illegal and unannounced? If the warrant was signed by a judge then it was *very* probably legal.
I have a son that’s a cop.
The thing he dreads the MOST is being called for a no-knock raid. He hasn’t yet, because they are just VERY unpopular among the police here, but they are still conducted in the larger cities.
Police reform ITEM NUMBER ONE should be to FORBID NO-KNOCK RAIDS!
7.7 million out of approx. 43 million blacks?
Mayor: Democrat.
Metro Council: 26 seats total. Democrats hold 19, Republicans hold 7.
I was going to look up the political leadership of the county in which Louisville is located, but Jefferson County has been "consolidated" with Louisville, so the Mayor of Louisville also runs the county.
This type of incident is what folks should be marching against.
She was murdered without a doubt for no reason.
I appreciate the intent here, but the LMPD should follow the law, not the dictates of a petition.
2. Without seeing the warrant, how do we know this was the wrong house (without 20/20 hindsight)?
3. Did the judge who signed the warrant ask if the cops knew for sure that the perp was at the listed address? Did the cops lie, or not do due diligence, or is the judge a liberal hack?
I, too, am against no-knock raids. Wait until the perp leaves the house and then grab him.
Why did Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shoot at the police first?
A judge and/or some cops messed up in a horrific tragedy.
Why is race involved?
If one can’t produce a warrant, then isn’t it safe to say that there was no warrant?
BLM and Antifa want to burn the country down for Floyd. it is perverse who the left choose to martyr.
The 4th amendment to the Bill of Rights guarantees the “home is the castle” and necessitate a search warrant to allow police to enter. A search warrant and a no-knock search warrant are vastly different concepts.
A no-knock warrant does not in any way observe the 4th amendment protection of the Bill of Rights. It assumes guilty until proven innocent.
The most sane thing would be for the police to knock and loudly identify themselves. If they hear continuous movement, then announce a break in.
A normal, reasonable person, not involved in criminal activity, would automatically assume a home invasion and would fire back.
we don’t know she was ‘an exemplary citizen’
according to the warrant, drugs were being dealt out of that apartment by Adrian Walker, unknown relation to ‘not a live-in’ boyfriend Walker
her car was seen several times at a drug house
her name and address was allegedly on a 2nd warrant that named Adrian Walker and another guy
yes, they allegedly did hear some knock or noise at the door because Walker says Taylor called out ‘several times’ ‘who’s there’. Walker says there was no answer.
Walker shot at the door striking an officer immediately after the door was sprung. Both sides agree Walker shot first.
Why was Taylor shot but not Walker - where was Walker in relation to Taylor if he was ‘protecting her at all costs’ ?
A lot of this story is being lost to manufactured hysteria. Breonna is dead because Walker shot first. Had Breonna been in the bedroom she’d be alive because no bullets penetrated the bedroom. Was she a human shield? Was she the shooter? Was she in the hallway because she was flushing drugs and on the way back to the bedroom?
Instead of dismissing charges against Walker, he needs to come clean on what happened and explain Adrian Walker’s relationship to Taylor, that she would be seen at his house and allegedly allow him to deal drugs out of her house.
Stupid cops but the article lost me with the crap about treating pandemic patients even though she died FOUR MONTHS AGO!