LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Anger, frustration and sadness over the decision not to charge Kentucky police officers for Breonna Taylor’s death poured into America’s streets as protesters lashed out at a criminal justice system they say is stacked against Black people. Violence seized the demonstrations in her hometown of Louisville as gunfire rang out and wounded two police officers.
Got to say, the timing on this is very suspicious.
Joe Scarborough went over this mess this morning. He seemed to be defending the Cops. He said most Judges would have issued a warrant based on the probable cause brief. The only solid point in that 5 point brief was the bit about packages coming and going from that address. NO ONE knows what was in them.
The police can get a warrant that allows them to intercept mail. They had the option to look in these packages and see if drugs were in them. They chose to raid the home instead. Then killed an innocent woman.
How can you find this to be OK?
The correct response is that it’s not OK. If there is a God, then Justice will be delivered in the next life, but that should not impede us from seeking Justice in this life. Furthermore, if there is no God, then Justice must be delivered in this life. If Justice is not delivered in this life, then injustices will compound and result in massive social unrest. Feeling people will want Justice addressed. Fearful people will not. And those who thrive off other’s fear for political gain will take advantage of that fear. That is exactly what Satan’s Avatar is doing. Trumplethinskin does NOT want Justice…He wants your FEAR.
From the wiki
The number of no-knock raids has increased from 3,000 in 1981 to more than 50,000 in 2005, according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.[6] Raids that lead to deaths of innocent people are increasingly common; since the early 1980s, forty bystanders have been killed, according to the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.[6]
In Utah, no-knock warrants make up about 40% of all warrants served.[2] In Maryland, 90% of SWAT deployments were to serve search warrants, with two-thirds through forced entry.[2]
From 2010 through 2016, at least 81 civilians and 13 officers died during SWAT raids, including 31 civilians and eight officers during execution of no-knock warrants.[2] Half of the civilians killed were members of a minority.[2] Of those subject to SWAT search warrants, 42% are black and 12% are Hispanic.[2] Since 2011, at least seven federal lawsuits against officers executing no-knock warrants have been settled for over $1 million.[2]
As with all things the amping up of police methods gets people killed. It doesn’t make anyone safer, and in fact it these methods have spawned a series or “practical jokes” called swatting. Swatting if you didn’t know is when someone calls the police on an enemy or friend claiming a hostage situation is happening at a certain address.
And why was it that the AG could only produce one witness that said the police announced themselves, while there were numerous others that said that they didn’t hear the police announce themselves?
And can I just say in a couple of incidents that I have followed why is the fact that juries expect a person who was asleep to immediately come to full compliance or awareness? How many of us here have said sorry about some mistake in post with the excuse being “I guess I didn’t have enough coffee yet”.
As someone I heard last night say the only thing that got justice out of this was dry wall. This outcome does not make anyone, of any skin complexion feel safer. And if they say they do then they’re lying.
Frankly I find the outrage over this to be completely overblown. I’ve seen people spamming memes about Brianna Taylor all over social media all summer like this is the worst hate crime ever perpetrated. But then I actually learned the details and realize that it was just a series of systemic failures and not some racially motivated murder. I’m sorry, but the fact that BT’s boyfriend fired first changes the math on this. Yes, the entire system needs to be pulled out root and stem. But let’s not act like this was on the same level as George Floyd’s murder.
That’s a superficial analysis. There are much better ones. But do this…rectify: “Yes, the entire system needs to be pulled out root and stem” with : “Frankly I find the outrage over this to be completely overblown”
I have basically said in the past , if you take out the racism aspect for the moment, something is still wrong in the training first and foremost. Your inclusion of the data on no knock warrants adds to my view point. This trend of knee jerk weapons use flows through all of it.
One you might want to learn how to spell her name.
Two this case has a whole bunch of systemic failures, but they didn’t kill the boyfriend.
Three castle doctrine is now only for white folks?
Four she was killed in March and Floyd was in June. The reason this didn’t get as much attention as Floyd’s death is that there was video at Floyd’s death. There were no body cams, nor recording devises on the Louisville officers bodies that night.
If there is no God then the entire concept of Justice (with a capital “J”) is moot and the Big Bang was the result of no one creating everything from nothing; a tautology of sorts.
I recently read Hunter Thompson’s 1970 piece about the murder of Ruben Salazar. It’s eerie how much the piece sounds as if it could have been written today. From the descriptors of brown protesters as thugs and criminals to the police and DAs investigating themselves and hiding behind nebulously authoritarian laws, it’s incredible how we’ve always been this country.
It’s only moot if you believe that you need for justice to be a concept derived from an intelligence from outside of humanity itself. But if you believe that humans are capable of defining concepts for themselves, it’s not moot at all.
In case anyone else wonders.
Bullshit. There is no god therefore we are free to make justice ourselves. We make the good that is in the world. We invented god after all.
I thought that it’s pretty clear they had body cams. Less clear why no recordings have been presented:
Even more basic than this is the presumption of causality. Cause and effect assumes a sequence of events while moving through time. Here’s the kicker: Before the Big Bang, if such an “event” actually did occur, by definition space-time did not exist in our universe. That is, space-time sprung forth from a singularity. If space-time did not exist, then there can be no movement or translation through time prior to the existence of space-time, so how can there be causality in the creation of the so-called Big Bang? How can you have cause and effect if you do not have time? Cause and effect may be a convenient perception of events during our existence inside this space-time environment, but causality may be an impediment to understanding the phenomena that created the Big Bang. Yes, I know this might read like bullshit, but language has its limitations, and verb tense makes little sense to describe something as unsuitable as “events outside of time”.
This is where physics and philosophy blend. One curious observation is that if one were a God who wanted to promote “free will”, which could be impeded by enforcing factual knowledge of his presence, then what better way for a God to hide than to do so on the other side of a singularity? 
We need to keep Devin’s cow out of this. 
It’s true that some people make God in their own image but as someone versed in both quantum
mechanics and astrophysics I can’t see a Reality devoid of a Devine Creator.
Maybe if you could explain The Big Bang as having created everything from nothing due to no one? This seems to defy logic as well as natural science.
ETA I lean toward Taoism, Sufi Islam and Native American Spirituality.
Judeo-Christianity is perverse and I understand how this has soured many people with above average intellect toward dogmatic religion.
My deep immersion into the science of the natural world is what has led me to my opinion on this and , of course, my opinion is no more valid than yours .
