LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville’s mayor said Friday that one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor will be fired.
This whole “officials could not answer questions about the firing because of state law” thing has got to change.
Given my knowledge of local law enforcement, fired in Louisville and hired immediately somewhere else.
Unless the officer is arrested and convicted of manslaughter.
Everyone please notice the deafening silence of the NRA in this case of a legal gun owner defending his castle under the threat of armed intruders. Apparently the NRA only cares if the gun owner is pale. Stand Your White Ground might be their de facto motto when trying to sell more guns to a populace they wish to scare.
good to know that Louisville jumped right on the problem and maybe fires one of the cops involved in Breonna Taylor’s after 3 months of hoping it would go away
Whoa. FIRED? Taking an awfully big stick to the issue, aren’t you Mr. Mayor?
You realize this means the next time he kills someone, he could be ARRESTED??
(h/t Naked Gun)
I was just going to post something similar. It wouldn’t be the first time a terminated cop is re-hired elsewhere and his background becomes a black hole.
Even worse, cops charged with murder or manslaughter or often acquitted because public sentiment seems to be on their side. An ex-cop killed our mayor and a county supervisor in 1978 and got a slap on the wrist.
Do you mean Moscone and Milk?
But Dan White was economically, civil rights and LGBT-rights anxious and, at any rate, his consumption of Twinkies led to his diminished capacity. Not his anger at Moscone and Milk. His rage at them was an incidental Twinkies-fueled anger. When he snuck into city hall through a basement window and requested a meeting with Moscone, shot him then located Milk and shot him it was mere happenstance. They could have been anyone.
Not believable? I wonder why . . .?
Hey, maybe note that she was shot 8 times while asleep in bed and that, when her mother asked to see the warrant, the officer claimed it had “gotten lost”. So they ALLEGEDLY entered her apartment using a no-knock warrant - an actual warrant has not been confirmed.
Well, the Black Attorney General of KY, Daniel Cameron, is slow slow slow walking the investigation into conduct of officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. A) Because he’s Mitch’s bitch and B) He’s 31 and has little to no experience for the job.
So back off our mayor y’all. Only cause more chaos if he were to resign. He just got reelected after 4 years of dealing with Matt Fucking Bevin leading an all out assault trying to take away the mayor’s powers and all kinds of other shit attacking Louisville. Is Mayor Fischer perfect? No. But he’s a decent guy. I would imagine that with all the duties of any mayor, dealing with the police is by far the biggest headache.
Fischer said officials could not answer questions about the firing because of state law. He referred all questions to the Jefferson County attorney’s office.
Why? Does the Jefferson County attorney’s office employ some non-officials?
Fired? OK. What about “Arrested and Charged”?
I’m surprised the police department came to that decision.
From the Louisville Courier Journal:
Tessa Duvall Louisville Courier Journal
Published 12:49 PM EDT Jun 11, 2020
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nearly three months after Louisville Metro Police officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her South End apartment, the department has released the incident report from that night.
Except, it is almost entirely blank.
The four-page report lists the time, date, case number, incident location and the victim’s name — Breonna Shaquelle Taylor — as well as the fact that she is a 26-year-old black female.
But it redacts Taylor’s street number, apartment number and date of birth — all of which have been widely reported.
And it lists her injuries as “none,” even though she was shot at least eight times and died on her hallway floor in a pool of blood, according to attorneys for her family.
It lists the charges as “death investigation — LMPD involved” but checks the “no” box under “forced entry,” even though officers used a battering ram to knock in Taylor’s apartment door.
It also lists under the “Offenders” portion of the report the three officers who fired in Taylor’s apartment, fatally shooting her — Sgt. Jon Mattingly, 47; Myles Cosgrove, 42; and Brett Hankison, 44.
See also: Citing Taylor’s death, new report calls for the end of no-knock warrants
But the most important portion of the report — the “narrative” of events that spells out what happened March 13 — has only two words: “PIU investigation.”
And the rest of the report has no information filled in at all.
“I read this report and have to ask the mayor, the police chief and the city’s lawyers: Are you kidding? This is what you consider being transparent to taxpayers and the public?” asked Richard A. Green, editor of The Courier Journal.
“At a time when so many are rightfully demanding to know more details about that tragic March evening, I fail to understand this lack of transparency. The public deserves more.”
The police department acknowledged errors in the report that it said was the result of the reporting program creating a paper file.
“Inaccuracies in the report are unacceptable to us, and we are taking immediate steps to correct the report and to ensure the accuracy of incident reports going forward,” the statement said.
Mayor Greg Fischer was less forgiving, issue a statement Wednesday night calling the released report “unacceptable.”
“Full stop. It’s issues like this that erode public confidence in LMPD’s ability to do its job, and that’s why I’ve ordered an external top-to-bottom review of the department,” he said. “I am sorry for the additional pain to the Taylor family and our community.” Louisville police release the Breonna Taylor incident report. It’s virtually blank
Tessa Duvall Louisville Courier Journal
Published 12:49 PM EDT Jun 11, 2020
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nearly three months after Louisville Metro Police officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her South End apartment, the department has released the incident report from that night.
Except, it is almost entirely blank.
The four-page report lists the time, date, case number, incident location and the victim’s name — Breonna Shaquelle Taylor — as well as the fact that she is a 26-year-old black female.
But it redacts Taylor’s street number, apartment number and date of birth — all of which have been widely reported.
And it lists her injuries as “none,” even though she was shot at least eight times and died on her hallway floor in a pool of blood, according to attorneys for her family. [I guess if one dies as the result of bullet wounds. they aren’t, strictly speaking, “injuries.”]
It lists the charges as “death investigation — LMPD involved” but checks the “no” box under “forced entry,” even though officers used a battering ram to knock in Taylor’s apartment door. [But if the officers use “love” in deployment of the ram, consent is implied.]
It also lists under the “Offenders” portion of the report the three officers who fired in Taylor’s apartment, fatally shooting her — Sgt. Jon Mattingly, 47; Myles Cosgrove, 42; and Brett Hankison, 44.
But the most important portion of the report — the “narrative” of events that spells out what happened March 13 — has only two words: “PIU investigation.” [Narrative!? Thing were so confusing . . .]
And the rest of the report has no information filled in at all. [Because they weren’t really there. They were actually in a time warp.]
“I read this report and have to ask the mayor, the police chief and the city’s lawyers: Are you kidding? This is what you consider being transparent to taxpayers and the public?” asked Richard A. Green, editor of The Courier Journal.
“At a time when so many are rightfully demanding to know more details about that tragic March evening, I fail to understand this lack of transparency. The public deserves more.”
The police department acknowledged errors in the report that it said was the result of the reporting program creating a paper file.
“Inaccuracies in the report are unacceptable to us, and we are taking immediate steps to correct the report and to ensure the accuracy of incident reports going forward,” the statement said.
Mayor Greg Fischer was less forgiving, issue a statement Wednesday night calling the released report “unacceptable.”
“Full stop. It’s issues like this that erode public confidence in LMPD’s ability to do its job, and that’s why I’ve ordered an external top-to-bottom review of the department,” he said. “I am sorry for the additional pain to the Taylor family and our community.”
The Mayor(?) actually expressed the same sentiment before saying he couldn’t speak about it because of the state laws… he suggested he’d love that law to be changed.
That’s not the only thing needing changing, in my view.
The boyfriend who fired a warning shot (thinking it was a home invasion by thieves) did the right thing, and was within his rights, since the police hadn’t announced themselves – the biggest problem with these ‘no-knock’ raids. And what else would the police expect from a resident? Although those raids may be ‘expedient’, they run entirely counter to how we, as citizens, should be policed or our laws enforced.
If my door opens unexpectedly in the middle of the night, I’m likely to go into “home defense” mode myself. If it’s police coming in unannounced, it could very likely lead to someone (probably me) getting hurt. That, like “civil asset forfeiture” needs to be done away with completely.
The paper is called The Courier Journal.
Go ask the Attorney General of KY.
Good point.
Yeah, that’s going to be real helpful… we’re talking about the same AG that dragged feet for three months before taking even this minimal action, right? sigh The racist South still has some way to go, I’m afraid…
Try reading .
The current AG of KY is a Black man. He’s 31. One of Mitch’s bitches. He has little to no experience at the job and he’s slow walking it.
Louisville has been the Democratic oasis in KY forever. We haven’t had an R mayor since 1965. The state House & Senate are super R majority and have wanted to get an R into the mayor’s office in Louisville since then. They want it badly. They went full frontal assault every single fucking day of Matt Bevin’s reign of error. I don’t want an R mayor, and I live here! Mayor Fischer is a decent guy, he just won his third and final term. So Back The Fuck Off and quit trying to help the Rs in KY get one of their assholes in the mayor’s office of my beloved city.
Rant over.
No idea why that angst is directed at me, but ok…? Nothing I’m doing or saying here remotely resembles or represents any of that.
Sorry, just on roll.