Posted on 09/21/2020 4:22:22 PM PDT by RandFan
The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) has ordered a state of emergency ahead of an expected decision in the case surrounding the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor.
Two weeks ago, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) signaled that a grand jury had been empaneled to hear details surrounding the incident and that an announcement would be made when it had reached a decision, though he didn't offer a concrete timeline.
According to an internal memo from Robert Schroeder, the city's chief of police, the emergency declaration stops all days off and vacation requests for LMPD officers “until further notice” so “the appropriate level of staffing” can be ensured.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed in her home on March 13 by a trio of plainclothes LMPD officers executing a no-knock warrant: Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove. Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were asleep inside at the time.
Police were granted the warrant under the belief that Taylor's ex-boyfriend Jamarcus Glover had been using her apartment as a place to keep drugs and money, but neither was found there. Glover is facing multiple drug charges.
Walker, who says he thought the officers were intruders, opened fire. The trio returned fire, hitting Taylor multiple times and killing her.
Taylor and George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis at the end of May, became two of the focal points this summer of nationwide protests against police brutality and a resurgent Black Lives Matter movement.
Protesters, lawmakers and celebrities have demanded that charges be brought against the three officers, but just over six months after Taylor was killed, none of them have been arrested or charged.
Hankison was fired from the force in June after it was determined he "blindly" fired 10 rounds into Taylor's apartment. Mattingly and Cosgrove are still on the force and currently on administrative reassignment.
Last week, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer (D) announced that the city had reached a $12 million settlement with Taylor’s family. The deal is the largest settlement the city has paid in a police misconduct case, shattering the previous top figure of $8.5 million.
“I’m here today, with the family of Breonna Taylor, to announce that Louisville Metro Government has settled a civil lawsuit with her estate,” Fischer said last Tuesday. "We must have transparency and accountability for the work that our officers do."
The settlement also includes a series of police reforms, notably including how no-knock warrants are issued.
In addition to the LMPD-ordered state of emergency, some of the federal buildings in downtown Louisville have been shuttered, including the Gene Snyder United States Courthouse.
"The public may also see barriers being staged around downtown, which is another part of our preparations," LMPD spokesman Lamont Washington told the Courier Journal. "It is important to note that the AG has said there is no timetable for the announcement."
I’ve always hated even the idea of “no knock warrants”. But because we still allow them, the police cannot be held responsible for what happens when the doors get kicked in.
Democrat city. Let it burn.
I strongly disagree with your premise
Just because they are legally allowed does not give the police the right to abuse them. And by abuse I mean even using them. And that goes double the judges who approve these things.
Especially based on the patently transparent BS that is submitted as evidence. Stuff like monitoring a jailhouse phone call by a known scumbag and using that as evidence to smash down somebody’s door in the middle of the night.
They’re trashing the Fourth Amendment for drugs and cash, not for suitcase nukes.
The thing I’d like to ask some of these clowns is, you can’t post somebody to watch the place and serve a warrant when they’re walking down the hallway? Do these people never leave their homes? So that you have to smash the door down to get them out?
I agree with you. What they did to Paul Manafort was inexcusable.
And blacks still wonder why they are stereotyped.
I beg your pardon. We live here.
I went to Academy Sports today to buy some targets. The gun area looked post-apocalyptic. A few shotguns were left, otherwise no handguns or ammo other than creedmor.
10 weeks ago I was afraid of guns. Now mine is always within reach. Now I have a handgun and a really cool Ruger PC carbine.
Most of us are tired being held hostage by the BLM types.
Declare a curfew as needed.
Enforce it—which means anyone out after the curfew gets to spend the night in the slammer.
Riot problem solved.
Life is easy when you know the rules.
If they are afraid of drugs going down the drain...put a trap on the drain before you go in. That’s easy enough to do.
The only time they should be able to go in is if a kid or innocent is being endangered.
The truth doesn't advance the narrative so it's irrelevant./sarc
Dont blame you. Find 50 like people and all of you buy bow and arrows (no waiting period) and start raining down hell from the roof tops. Nothing more terrifying then not hearing a sound and having an arrow hit you in the junk!
I think there’s been a lot of information left out or ignored. I’ve read that they did knock and her new BF fired through the door. Also the Hodge Twins said she was on the warrant and she was a drug dealer or mule among other things.
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I also read they found a rather substantial sum of cash (13k?) hidden in the apartment.
If we’ve learned anything it’s that the truth is irrelevant.
If we’ve learned anything it’s that the truth is irrelevant.
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The people that really need the ax handle as clue bat discussion are those that keep falling for this crap.
they know they’re being lied to every day in every way and yet they fall for it Every. Damn. Time.
I am wondering if that kind of stupid can be beaten out of an individual or if it’s a terminal issue.
But there comes a time when some folks are just gonna have to admit that the reason they keep being played for punks and fall for it Every. Damn. Time, is because they are, in fact, idiot punks and their entire lot in life is being bent over the bench for the pleasure and profit of others.
As much as I dislike Greg Fischer and the clowns assisting him in his partisan incompetence, along with the nitwits running Jefferson County, Louisville is not Chicago or Portand or Seattle. And I hope that we never let it get like them. It is still salvageable unlike the aforementioned crapholes.
I gotta believe that if Matt Bevin were still governor he would have exerted proper influence over Fischer, unlike the corrupt POS Andy Beshear.
Her boy friend shooting is at the heart of this.
Fearful Blacks raising hell again after all this.....you don’t say!
They continue to prove they’re a violent culture.
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