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2020-05-19 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Cops got warrant to conduct botched raid that led to fatal shooting of sleeping black EMT by giving judge false information that dealers were using house to stash cash, drugs
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Family of Kentucky woman is suing Louisville Metro Police Department

  • LMPD officers launched botched raid on home of Breonna Taylor, 26, in March

  • Officers executed 'no-knock' raid on her home just before 1am on March 13

  • Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, at time of the raid

  • Walker, who was licensed to carry gun, shot at cops, thinking they were burglars

  • One of the three officers who raided the home was wounded in the leg

  • Cops then returned fire, shooting at least 20 rounds, killing Taylor

  • Walker was arrested and charged with attempted murder

  • Raid was launched based on search warrant that was approved by a judge

  • Warrant cited detective claim that drug dealer used home to receive packages

  • But a postal inspector said that no suspicious packages were ever sent to home
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Manslaughter by proxy
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-19 06:51||   2020-05-19 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Story keeps changing: Originally it was reported that the raid was to capture a wanted fugitive...who had already been jailed.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-19 06:52||   2020-05-19 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 And Walker has had the charges dropped?
Posted by Dacama  2020-05-19 07:01||   2020-05-19 07:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Score another one for a corrupt system full of pigs.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-19 07:13||   2020-05-19 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 All the cops involved in this need to have their badge and gun seized and put in jail.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-05-19 08:56||   2020-05-19 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 FISA warfare at the street level.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-19 08:59||   2020-05-19 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Good analogy, B. /\
Posted by Clem 2020-05-19 09:19||   2020-05-19 09:19|| Front Page Top

#8 New drug war slogan: "Killing the innocent. If it saves just one life..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-19 09:23||   2020-05-19 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Resume' enhancer for all concerned.
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2020-05-19 09:28||   2020-05-19 09:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Mercurio that was in alabama
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2020-05-19 09:29||   2020-05-19 09:29|| Front Page Top

#11 How in the hell do you come up with A-M for Walker?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-19 09:56||   2020-05-19 09:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Cop in raid that led to fatal shooting of sleeping black EMT had been accused of being 'dirty', 'harassing a suspect' and planting drugs in previous lawsuit
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-19 10:44||   2020-05-19 10:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Qualified immunity has got to go.
Posted by Iblis 2020-05-19 10:45||   2020-05-19 10:45|| Front Page Top

#14 I would vote for 1st degree murder in this case. Fry all the cops, jail their superiors and the judge involved.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-05-19 12:29||   2020-05-19 12:29|| Front Page Top

#15 No knock raids should have been outlawed some time ago. Better if you surprise them leaving the house anyway.

Giving false information to a judge should be a felony with 10 years minimum.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-19 13:03||   2020-05-19 13:03|| Front Page Top

#16 #12 And I'm sure all the "good cops" demanded that he be removed from the force and never covered for him.

On a somewhat related note, has there been any news on the mass resignations of all the "patriotic" FBI agents in the wake of the revelations of a trumped up case against Flynn?

I've no doubt that they're leaving in droves and we just haven't heard anything yet.
Posted by charger 2020-05-19 13:07||   2020-05-19 13:07|| Front Page Top

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