... because they said so - criminals NEVER lie!! /s
If Kenneth fired a round off, how did Breonna take the bullets? Wouldn’t officers return fire in the direction the fire came from? All 22 rounds fired missed Kenneth by a mile? Are we sure it was Kenneth that had the gun?
Since there was a warrant, let’s read it and find out answers.
Although apparently it’s ok to lie on warrants anyway.
There’s more to it than the police. They’re the ‘end user’ of policies, laws and rubber stamps made by politicians, bureaucrats and judges. The police give this corruption a face. In the end tho it’s the electorate who voted for law and order thinking that trading a bit of liberty for security would be ok.
The tactic, why is this tactic used?
There are many horror stories of deadly no knock raids happening at the wrong address. Too many.
One of the many reasons I want an end to the WOD.
Sen. Rand Paul introduced legislation Thursday to stop the use of no-knock warrants, an idea that Democrats are also pushing in their calls for police reform.
The Kentucky Republican’s bill, titled the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, requires federal law enforcement officers to give notice of their authority and purpose before entering a home. The law would also apply to state and local law enforcement agencies that receive money from the Justice Department.
I have heard that on the street if you get a break in, and they are yelling “Police!”, the very best thing you can do is to VERY LOUDLY YELL BACK “POLICE!!!”, then to immediately get face down on the floor in a spread eagle position.
Brilliant psychology, if you think about it.
1) If you yell police! back, the must assume that other police (unknown agency maybe) are *already there*, so they won’t charge in guns blazing.
2) Seeing you sprawled out on the floor, they are inclined to make a second wrong assumption that this room has already been “cleared”, and the other cops left in pursuit of someone. So while they may “secure” you they won’t execute you gangland style, mostly because you are another cops’ take down.
3) Worst case, if they are actually robbers pretending to police, at worst you still have 50/50 odds of getting out without being killed. You may just lose you stuff and get some free novelty handcuffs.
There are some basic police reforms that have to be instituted nation-wide: end no-knock warrants, end choke holds and neck restraints, end qualified immunity and mandate that every cop anywhere in the US must have an active body cam for all interactions with the public. Unnecessary deaths caused by the police are not only a menace to the rest of us, they’re also eagerly awaited by the radical left, which is using them to turn the US into a weird combination of the Road Warrior and Cultural Revolution-era China.