Posted on 08/04/2022 2:55:20 PM PDT by Morgana
Four current and former Louisville Police officers have been charged by the FBI in connection with the deadly raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment in 2020.
Ex-LPMD detectives Joshua Jaynes, 40, and Brett Hankison, 46 are all facing federal civil rights charges for their actions in the Taylor investigation.
Current LMPD Sergeant Kyle Meany, 45, and detective Kelly Hanna Goodlett are facing the same charges.
Jaynes was fired by the Louisville Metro Police in January 2021, in Kentucky, for adding a false statement to his sworn affidavit for the 'no knock' warrant to search Taylor's apartment over her drug dealer ex-boyfriend.
As a result EMT Taylor, 26, was fatally shot by LMPD officers on 13 March 2020, sparking widespread protests around the country.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke today announced the charges - which include violating Taylor's civil rights, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force, and obstruction offenses.
They claim that the LMPD’s Place Based Investigations Unit falsified the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for Taylor’s home, which then led to her death.
Garland also confirmed that Hankison, who was cleared of criminal charges earlier this year, has been charged with two two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law.
Until now Hankison was the only officer to be charged in relation to Taylor's death, after firing shots through her window and sliding glass door.
He was found not guilty of three counts of wanton endangerment for firing shots into a neighboring apartment.
Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker returned fire with a shot that struck an officer in the leg.
Police then opened fire, hitting Taylor six times and killing her in the incident.
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Ms completely innocent in the drug trade … but these midnight (or otherwise) no knock warrants are crap in general, just like civil asset forfeiture.
All this to shore up FJB’s falling numbers in the hoodlum voting block.
So transparent.
Would “Proprietorial Lynching” be a good term for this?
I was about to post the same thing and look for more of these into late October. The Left believes that Social Justice and Threat to Democracy Narratives will help them hold the Congress.
isn’t the claim it was “no-knock” a lie by the race baiters?
Obama and Holder succeeded in federalizing and putting under the deep-state thumb, every one of the 3000+ local police departments.
Neo-marxists can’t have any local centers of power of strong civil institutions. They are anathema to the revolution.
Breonna Taylor returned a Rental Car - with a Dead Body in thd trunk.
Completely innocent? Yeah except for her phone calls recorded of her discussing dope cash. Except for the dead body found in the trunk of her rental car. Except for her having a relationship with a drug dealer.
Other than that she was innocent.
BTW, it was not a “no knock raid, even if BLM claims it was. The State AG who was black also ruled that it was not a criminal act on the part of the cops.
Losing Ukraine, now picked up the BLM flag I see. LOL
“Git whitey!!”
Yo Tony, who HASN’T done that? You get distracted and forget to bury em.
I totally missed the dead body in the rental car, when did that happen?!?!
It may have been, as the same race baiters seem to want to claim that the guy who used her as a human shield didn’t hear them identify themselves, but was apparently aware enough to grab her to use as a shield.
Identifying themselves does what anyway? Anyone can say they are a cop just as anyone could paint the tip of their real gun orange or pink to try to fool people into thinking it’s a toy.
The FBI can charge us anytime anywhere unless your name is Hunter Biden, of course.
The stupidity of no knock warrants in the middle of the night is unbelievable. That and these stupid raids early in the morning with people still in their underwear forced outside their homes. What freaking country is this?
O.K.
I get the idictments (and yes they are political).
Regardless; are arrests warranted, necessary.
@hat about a preliminary hearing, where the prosecutor gets to argue why pretrial arrest is warrante and the defense gets to argue why it is uneccessary?
DOJ is totally rogue now.
It's the safest time because people are usually asleep and/or drunk/high.
It wasn’t a no knock raid.
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