LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville, Kentucky, has banned the use of controversial “no-knock” warrants and named the new ordinance for Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by officers who burst into her home.
I’m not exactly celebrating this new law because I’m afraid it’s going to be just another minor reform that everybody treats as a big win and then goes home. This should merely be a starting point, many more reforms are needed and necessary for there to be any real change.
Late report with wrong details. Any wonder the public has lost faith in the police?
I don’t know how you can have a Second Amendment and no-knock warrants anywhere.
If a person’s home is their castle, and they have full rights to defend their home, then it’s no wonder that people coming in unannounced are going to get shot at.
That they need to trample people’s 4th amendment rights in order to even have a chance of implementing the “war on drugs” is evidence enough that it’s not good policy.
Anybody else remember this story from 2014? What happened in Louisville is horrifying. And though I hate to admit it because @castor_troy said it but yeah no-knock warrants and 2A do not mix well.
" No knock warrant " has a bit of an oxymoron tune to it. Has anyone read an account that states why a woman in her bed was shot 8 times but the guy that shot at the cops was shot just once in the leg?
Ms.Taylor was shown in pictures laying in the hallway. So either she got up, or they moved her for the photo. I haven’t seen an explanation for that.
I would like to know how many innocent people have been killed over the years because the police, armed with a no-knock warrant, busted into the wrong address or busted into a place that had been identified by faulty information in the original request for a warrant. I can recall multiple instances of this happening through the years.
It is good to see the Racism for Profit party back on its heels and willing to make a few changes. We can only hope that this apparent groundswell is the real deal, because nothing collapses right back into place more readily than racism. Outlawing specific racist policies is a small part of the change that must occur - and I am under no illusions that the majority of specific things that make America so racist are going to be eradicated in my lifetime.
But there is hope for my daughter and her kids and their friends of color. Arizona is not big for demonstrations, but last night a huge crowd assembled in Tempe to ask for police defunding and reform. This is a full 15 days after the precipitating incident of George Floyd’s execution - that is pretty much unheard of around here.
My daughter took some pictures - here is one
And I would think that the police would have that in mind as they knock down that door, and they don’t want to be the ones getting shot. One can imagine how that is most likely to play out.
Ahem.
Enjoy your 50 pizzas.
It’s a well-known open secret that the war on drugs is really a front in the war on people of color.
Thanks, my freezer is empty.
I wonder how this plays out in states with no-knock warrants and stand-your-ground laws? Basically they have defined both sides as automatically within their rights.
I guess they can have the equivalent of an O.K. corral moment and declare everyone winners, but short of that, not sure.
Pretty much. Lose-lose all around.
In Germany, a rather more civilized place, police raids other than those for things like an imminent terrorist threat are run between 6 in the morning and I think 9 at night. No middle of the night things where stuff could get weird, and takes super special permission to deviate.
Once the Supreme Court began to knock down key provisions in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acs, Jim Crow has been flourishing anew throughout the South and in police departments across the entire country. Nobody seemed to care except for the families of the dead.
That’s a good (albeit small) first step… let’s make that a national ban. And then let’s also address the militarization, the Blue Wall of Silence, flush out the racist cops, and make everyone truly equal under the law.
I watched a citizen video of a young black guy being arrested because he didn’t have a bell on his bike. Yeah. When he asked angrily why the hell he’s being arrested, one cop answered, “Obstruction”… the other answered, “Illegal”… if that was the best they could do, they don’t belong in uniform.
One of the bystanders commented, ‘wait… we’re required to have a bell? I don’t have a bell. If that’s a law they should come with a bell! Like seat belts in a car…’ Good point.
This is the kind of profiling and lame-assed excuses being used by our police nationwide to put pressure (or worse) on people of color.
Now the man has an “arrest record”. That equals ‘open season’ in Copland…
There is so much more work to do beyond banning “no-knock warrants” which are already a deviancy from common decency…
