What happened in Louisville?

Shortly after midnight on March 13, Louisville police officers executing a search warrant used a battering ram to enter the apartment of Ms. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician.

The police had been investigating two men who they believed were selling drugs out of a house that was far from Ms. Taylor’s home. But a judge had also signed a warrant allowing the police to search Ms. Taylor’s residence because the police said they believed that one of the men had used her apartment to receive packages. Ms. Taylor had been dating that man on and off for several years but had recently severed ties with him, according to her family’s lawyer.

Ms. Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, had been in bed, but got up when they heard a loud banging at the door. Mr. Walker said he and Ms. Taylor both called out, asking who was at the door. Mr. Walker later told the police he feared it was Ms. Taylor’s ex-boyfriend trying to break in.

After the police broke the door off its hinges, Mr. Walker fired his gun once, striking Sergeant Mattingly in a thigh. The police responded by firing several shots, striking Ms. Taylor five times. One of the three officers on the scene, Detective Brett Hankison, who has since been fired, shot 10 rounds into the apartment.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/breo...or-police.html

The police invaded someone's house without announcing themselves and they shot an innocent woman dead when her boyfriend rightfully defended his property against people he assumed were intruding and meant them harm, which they obviously did given that they sprayed bullets into the home.

Murderers.

Trying to justify murder by painting the black victims as bringing it on themselves is not a good look.

They had no right or reason to be there... she was with a new partner nothing to do with the guy they wanted.

These were 2 innocent people doing what southerners do defending their property with a firearm.
It's in the constitution remember.

It isn't the right for white people to bear arms... is it?

Louisville police officers executing a search warrant

given by a judge

yes correct, NRA does not look at colour, race with this law

you have the right to defend your property with firearm

these cops should've made it more clear they are police rather than just invading people's property (as in statement it seems they didn't know they were cops, so probably no sirens were heard)

A search warrant doesn't give them authority to murder the woman. But you know that.

A search warrant, not a 'murder an innocent woman' warrant.

They didn't know she was standing there, she wasn't the target, so how is it murder?

They executed more than the search warrant. ..that's the problem.

They didn't even kill the guy with the gun! It was an unarmed innocent civilian in her own home.

How twisted do you have to be to see the justification in this?

I don't think anyone is trying to justify it, but manslaughter and murder are different things. And, needless to say, both wrong.

Oh... was HER fault, she got in the way if the bullets spraying round her home like the OK corralle?

Heard it all now.

That's your takeaway from what I said?

:joker:

lol kay. Obviously it's not her fault. It's the cop's fault for firing blinding and hitting her instead of the bloke shooting at them. Doesn't make it murder.

I'd say it is murder when they're blindly spraying a home with bullets they KNOW the occupant is inside of.

You can't fire your gun inside a dark room that you know someone else is with you inside of and then claim you didn't mean to hit them.

They were returning fire. The aim is to take out who is shooting at you.

If you fire blindly into someone's home, you're shooting not to wound or disarm, but you're shooting to kill at anyone who is in that home. The police did not identify themselves, they acted like intruders and the boyfriend acted in a way that the Right Wing would have championed if he was white, he defended his home against unknown intruders who obviously raided the home with deadly intent.

This would have been classed as murder if it wasn't the police that intruded on their property, the police acted like thieves in the night and they murdered someone while they're at it. Them being the police does not change that fact.

a no knock warrant meant that they didnt need to identify themselves, and if someone shoots at you from a darkened room, they are entitled to shoot back ... it's not even close to being murder....

EXACTLY

They actually usually do identify themselves. A no-knock warrant is about giving no prior warning to entering the property, not just breaking in and shooting the occupant dead.

So should the cops have just rolled over and taken the bullets fired at them?

They should have announced who they were, so the house dwellers wouldn’t feel the need to use their constitutional 2nd amendment rights to defend their home from unidentified invaders

The guy was a drug dealer so when his door gets done in in the night he knows exactly who it is. He knew they would fire back, he knew his girlfreind was there.....

Is there any proof her current boyfriend was a drug dealer?

i am beginning to think Breonna did not know about his criminal past, since in his statement he had said he thought it was a ex boyfriend of her

makes it even more sad this story then

if this statement and story is true, some might not believe it who are anti-cops


is there strong hard evidence the guy was a drug dealer and was on record for this at the police force?

I thought this was a new boyfriend and not the one the police knew about. It said she had severed all ties with the drug dealer boyfriend and when they heard the noises her new boyfriend thought it was the ex turning up looking for trouble.

Just looked it up and it states that her boyfriend was not known to the police and was not implicated in any investigation

Great post. Its funny how people who constently shout 'Evidence?' When they see these incidents are happy to call Breonna Taylors boyfriend a drug dealer without a scrap of evidence.

The no knock warrant tactic has to be reviewed, and quite right too. I don't get why the police wouldn't acknowledge their presences in all situations. I dont care if they're walking into a a warzone with potentially rockets and grenades, the police need to announce their presence particularity if, like in this case, its the wrong guy. Some body has to be accountable for this 'error'

For all those who seem to be celebrating that no charges were bought. I wouldn't celebrate too soon if I were you. Many high profile celebs are taking interest in the case. Including Oprah. Didnt people want Oprah to run for president? She's quite influential is our Oprah. This isnt over.