Posted on 09/28/2020 6:07:36 AM PDT by RandFan
Footage emerged over the weekend that appears to show Lousiville police officer Brett Hankison enter Breonna Taylor's residence after her shooting death last March.
Hankison was the sole Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officer indicted last week following the raid that resulted in the killing of Taylor.
The emerged video has prompted concerns about the probe into the fatal police shooting.
The footage, which was released by Vice News over the weekend and reviewed by The Courier-Journal, shows an officer identified Hankison arrive at Taylor’s apartment in Louisville as authorities looked over the crime scene.
Moments after, the officer is seen in apparent body camera footage entering the front of the apartment, asking another officer off-screen, “That's theirs?” According to the Journal, Hankison appeared to be asking about a shell casing in the apartment.
“That's ours, it looks like,” the other officer responds off-screen in the clip, which runs for about 34 seconds. He then tells Hankison, “I’d back out until they get PIU (Public Integrity Unit) in here.”
“Are there any guns visible?” Hankison asks with a flashlight in hand shortly before the clip ends.
According to Vice News, another officer involved in the March shooting, Myles Cosgrove, was also seen entering Taylor's apartment with a rifle shortly after her death. The outlet reported that bodycam footage it reviewed does not show the officer guided out of the crime scene at any point.
The outlet also reported that LMPD Sgt. Jason Vance noted in his investigative report that investigators “observed Detective Hankison walking in and out of the primary scene.”
“At 0200 hours Sergeant Wilder and I verbally requested Hankison to remove himself from the primary scene and make contact with members of LMPD Peer Support,” he reportedly stated in the report.
That report also stated, according to Vice News, that investigators “learned Detective Hankison deviated from standard LMPD practices for an officer involved in a critical incident and left the scene location without his assigned LMPD Peer Support escort.”
“Hankison deviated from the standard protocol when he traveled unattended to University of Louisville Hospital having contact with CID command and Police Chief Steve Conrad,” the report continued, according to Vice News.
The Hill has reached out to the LMPD for comment.
The Journal noted in its report on Sunday that a spokesperson for the police department declined to comment and said the investigative file for the case "has not been released by the department at this time."
The spokesperson also said an "internal review" remains ongoing.
The report comes several days after a grand jury decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Taylor with her death.
Sooooo....what is the point of this “leak”? To stir up the ignorant populace that they were trying to alter the scene of the crime?
Of course......
So they caught him pointing out evidence and asking questions while another cop told him to not touch anything? Shocking!
could b true-oj was set up
Where’s Johnny Cochrane when we need him. A nation turns its rhyme-starved ears to him. Hopefully, news of his demise years ago was premature. Please, tell us he was just laying low for a while.
"This is Chewbacca!...."
In the end, it doesn’t really matter what was done after the shooting. Taylor was deeply involved in Glover’s narcotics operation. Jail house recordings prove that without a doubt. Witnesses admit that the police did indeed knock and announce and that Walker fired first, striking Sgt. Mattingly who returned fire. Taylor was standing in the hallway next to Walker, she wasn’t in bed. Once again, when it comes to the feral element of society, facts mean nothing.
What, he planted the gun because he shot himself to have cover for his return fire?
One only needs to look at two things to answer that question. 1.) It's the Hill. 2.) THe author: Airs Folley, an indignant, lesbian, Marxist, nappy-headed negro that never wrote a positive word about conservatives. She's a racist - and I'll give it back to her in spades.
I also would not call her death “a tragedy,” which all of the MSM, including Fox News, has said repeatedly.
There are some good ‘law blogs’ on the subject. The police command screwed up pretty bad here, but the 2 cops who were shot at did not. That is why the family got a $12 million settlement.
Hankinson was the one who was blasting blindly into the house from the yard with no line of sight, just blasting away. That’s why he was the one who got indicted on wanton endangerment.
He’s pining for the fjords.
“You might have caught him doing it, but if he said he didn’t do it, he didn’t do it!”
Said with great conviction by a criminal’s mama while she was on the stand in court. (I personally heard that jaw-dropping testimony).
The point too is if the police knock and identify themselves, don’t start blasting away at the door otherwise they will very likely shoot back.
So, this makes Taylor’s boyfriend, not the drug dealer boyfriend but the boyfriend living with her during the raid, responsible for Taylor’s death.
look! over there! something shiny!
Is that right? I hadn't read that before. If so it makes the Wanton Endangerment charge for only one officer make a lot more sense.
Yeah, the guys who actually entered the house were defending themselves, and of course the real bad guy was hiding behind his girlfriend like a palestinian or something.
Jail house recordings actually prove nothing because experienced criminals know they are recorded.
Without actual evidence that corroborates Glover’s utterances about Taylor they don’t amount to a hill of beans. No drugs or money were found.
Taylor is dead because the state continues to use and serve no knock warrants late at night which pits the occupants self defense rights against the officer’s self defense rights. This seldom turns out well.
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