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4 cops face federal charges in shooting death of Breonna Taylor


Let's see Tucker Carlson try to spin this as fake.

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Federal officials on Thursday charged four current and former police officers in Louisville, Ky., who were involved in a fatal raid on the apartment of Breonna Taylor, accusing them of several crimes, including lying to obtain a warrant that was used to search her home.

The charges stem from a nighttime raid of Ms. Taylor’s apartment in March 2020, during which officers knocked down Ms. Taylor’s door and fired a volley of gunshots after her boyfriend shot an officer in the leg, believing that intruders had burst into the home.

Two officers shot Ms. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Merrick Garland, the attorney general, said at a news conference that members of an investigative unit within the Louisville Metro Police Department had included false information in an affidavit that was then used to obtain a warrant to search Ms. Taylor’s home.

Mr. Garland said federal prosecutors believe that by doing so, the officers “violated federal civil rights laws, and that those violations resulted in Ms. Taylor’s death.”

Three of the officers also misled investigators who began looking into Ms. Taylor’s death, Mr. Garland said, including two that he said had met in a garage in the spring of 2020 and “agreed to tell investigators a false story.”

The killing of Ms. Taylor, who was Black, helped to set off protests in the spring and summer of 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and led to intense scrutiny of the police department in Louisville.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/four-officers-face-federal-charges-in-breonna-taylor-raid/ar-AA10iK29?cvid=96264577622c446c90549805d13f7c7f

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Finally the celebrities will shut up.

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It's a shame that Biden/Obama administration focuses on putting cops behind bars instead of going after criminals. The recruitment and retention of police is going to plummet if the Feds keep going after cops. It will be interesting to see if these charges stick since there was a discrepancy on the affidavit about an interview with a postal inspector. There is plenty of evidence to show that Breonna Taylor was handling the money for the drug gang. The Tatum Report website has a link to the leaked report at the bottom of the page.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2020/08/25/report-details-why-louisville-police-decided-to-forcibly-search-breonna-taylor-home/5593502002/

https://tatumreport.com/shocking-new-leaked-evidence-in-breonna-taylors-case-she-wasnt-who-they-said-she-was/



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First source is from Aug 25 2020, second source is a fake news source, which is also from 2020. It couldn't possibly be that the FBI uncovered new information in its investigation since that time, enough to, oh, I don't know, charge the cops?

Also, who cares? Not only are cops undertrained, they're not even effective at stopping or solving crime. They serve to protect the property of those in power. This is demonstrated by the fact they have the most powerful union in the US, but try to suppress and contain and break labor strikes.

Nice try at muddying the waters with fake news sources from 2020, you propagandist.

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The shooting happened in March 2020 so that's why my sources are from 2020. The current article below notes that the postal inspector line item was the big discrepancy on the affidavit and I don't think that is enough to disqualify all of the other evidence.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11081289/FBI-arrests-ex-Louisville-cop-involved-deadly-Breonna-Taylor-raid-lying-search-warrant.html

The second source is not fake news. It has links at the bottom to the leaked police report with detailed phone call transcripts, photos and evidence.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63943132/breonna-taylor-summary-redacted1 * leaked report *

They may have uncovered new information but the Biden administration wants to go after police departments. Bill Barr ended many of the Obama administration reforms targeting the police.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/29/obama-police-reform-341685

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/07/police-consent-decrees-trump-administration-oversight

I support the police and I want my property and family protected from criminals. I believe in the police and I want to live in a country with a strong criminal justice system. Two articles below show that the cops arrested criminals who attacked homeless people. This refutes your ridiculous argument that cops only protect those in power.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-carolina-men-arrested-horrific-planned-filmed-attacks-homeless-police

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/suspect-arrested-in-murders-of-homeless-men-in-nyc-dc/3599068/

The war on drugs has to continue. Drugs are destroying this nation and they ruin many lives. Many countries execute drug dealers but many people consider dealing drugs to be a non-violent crime. Breonna Taylor was part of the drug ring that destroyed lives, families and neighborhoods.


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Daily Mail, fuck off, fascist. And it is a fake news source, duh. Like I said, there's a reason the FBI charged the cops.

"Bill Barr ended many of the Obama administration reforms"


Yeah, research has shown that those police departments that haven't gone through reforms arrest minorities disproportionately. This isn't the brag you think it is.

"I support the police and I want my property and family protected from criminals."


Go on, call the police. They're effective at solving 3% of burglaries and putting major criminals away 2% of the time. And the US still has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Because slavery hasn't been abolished in prison. As that Arizona idiot blurted out the other week "communities would collapse" without his forced prison labor.

FYI, wage theft in the US eclipses all other types of theft by like 3 times combined (robberies, larcenies, auto thefts, burglaries and so on) and Republicans won't lift a finger to stop it. Wage theft is a 50 billion per year industry.

Shouldn't those who steal, i.e. thieves and criminals be in jail? Apparently not. So you're not actually in favor of a fair justice system of any kind.

"The war on drugs has to continue."


Retard. It's not a war on drugs, it's an economic war against poor people. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread."

"Drugs are destroying this nation and they ruin many lives."


Why aren't the Sacklers in jail? Because they're rich. LMAO, they got immunity from lawsuits. You absolute dolt.

"Many countries execute drug dealers but many people consider dealing drugs to be a non-violent crime."


When's the last time a rich person was executed in the US? Good luck finding one.

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Daily Mail is one of the best sources for news. The Ad Fontes Media chart below shows that it is a reliable news source.

https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/?utm_source=HomePage_StaticMBC_Image&utm_medium=OnWebSite_Link


I don't care about the demographic characteristics of criminals. I just want them locked up. The FBI charged them but I don't think the charges will stick. Society needs the police to protect them from criminals.

Your statistics are all BS. Crimes cannot be tracked since they are not all reported.

You're clueless. A sane rich person would not need to sleep under a bridge, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. There are charitable programs that feed poor people.

Not all poor people do drugs. The goal of the war on drugs is to eradicate illegal drugs from society. They are not targeting poor people.

The Sacklers owned Purdue Pharma so there is a layer of corporate protection. They are not in prison but they reached a $6 billion settlement. John Du Pont and Robert Durst were both multi-millionaires who received life sentences for murder. Roughly half of the US states have done away with the death penalty so there are not as many executions.

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Daily Mail is one of the best sources for news.


Yes, I'm sure that in your deluded and solipsistic universe that is true, objectively, they're a tabloid rag.

No one cares what you think. They're being charged federally. Do you know what the conviction rate for federal crimes is? It is a lot higher than 2% that the police manage.

I have a scientific study, you have tabloids and fake news.

You're clueless. A sane rich person would not need to sleep under a bridge, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. There are charitable programs that feed poor people.


That's exactly the point. Crime is the result of poverty. The rich steal 50 billion dollars from minimum wage workers and they fail to pay 163 billion dollars worth of taxes each year. While getting the government to give their business subsidies, tax breaks and bailouts. Gee, I wonder who's responsible for crime. Gee, I wonder why crime is much lower in countries with stronger social safety nets.

Not all poor people do drugs. The goal of the war on drugs is to eradicate illegal drugs from society. They are not targeting poor people.


The goal of the War on Drugs is to oppress poor people and throw them in jail. That's why the US has the highest prison population in the world and the highest incarceration rate. These prisoners work as slave labor. Yes, slavery was never abolished. You're advocating for more slaves.

The Sacklers owned Purdue Pharma so there is a layer of corporate protection. They are not in prison but they reached a $6 billion settlement. John Du Pont and Robert Durst were both multi-millionaires who received life sentences for murder.


Thanks for proving my points. On both counts.

So because they paid money, the biggest drug dealers aren't going to jail. Got it.

I asked you for rich people who got executed, not those that got jailed.

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This is a political message board where users post their opinions and back them up with sources. I am entitled to post my opinion and everyone else is also entitled to their opinion. I will never change your mind on this topic but I hope to provide my alternative viewpoint to others who view the thread.

I'm sure you have an unreliable study from a social scientist. All data and studies can be manipulated. I posted the police report and some analysis.

Not all crimes result from poverty. I previously provided you with two examples of murderers who were multi-millionaires.

The US has a crime problem and it has nothing to do with slavery.

You don't have any points and I don't agree with you on anything.

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I will never change your mind on this topic


It's telling you should say this because it belies your own thinking - nothing will change your mind, not even evidence. You are projecting.

I'm sure you have an unreliable study from a social scientist.


It's data backed up with empirical evidence. You're free to write your own scientific study. Oh, wait, that would require an enormous amount of effort and intelligence. It's much easier to just wave it off by saying anti-intellectual bullshit such as "oh, it's just a social scientist".

You are left with precisely zero (0) arguments, all you have are fallacies now. And a police report that was written up by the same police department that fabricated a warrant. And like I also said, all that's perfectly irrelevant.

Not all crimes result from poverty.


I never said all crimes result from poverty. In fact, I cited wage theft (50 billion dollars per year, eclipses all other types of theft by as much as 3 times combined) and tax evasion (163 billion dollars per year) as two examples of crimes that the rich do not go to jail for. And this type of theft and this type of fraud have far reaching social consequences. Those types of crimes stem from greed.

I previously provided you with two examples of murderers who were multi-millionaires.


I asked for examples of murders who were rich and were executed. There aren't any. I didn't ask for rich murderers who were imprisoned. Again, learn to read.

Do you know why many states in the US abolished the death penalty? Because, among other factors, poor people were disproportionately sentenced to death (they couldn't afford good lawyers, for example). So your justice is for sale, to be bought and sold like so many other things in America.

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Post your supposed scientific study. I'll check it out and I'm sure it'll be hilarious.

The police warrant was not fabricated. There was one statement on the affidavit that was deemed to
be untruthful but the officer is still appealing the judgment. There is plenty of evidence showing that
Breonna Taylor was part of the drug ring. I put more faith in a police report over some junk study by
a professor of sociology or Afro-American studies.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2022/06/30/breonna-taylor-case-ex-detectives-lmpd-firing-upheld-judge/7765953001/

You did say that crime is the result of poverty BUT I wanted to point out to you that people of all income levels commit various crimes.

The article below notes that Buchalter and Garza are two rich murderers who were executed in the US. For various reasons, prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty in states that actually allow the death penalty.

https://www.straightdope.com/21343781/have-any-millionaires-ever-been-executed-in-the-united-states

The key issue is whether people want to side with the police or the criminals. I will side with the police.

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Yes, it was, that's why the FBI is charging 4 police officers. Federal prosecutors have 95% conviction rate. Get back to me when they take a plea deal.

Again, even if she were dealing drugs herself, that's wholly irrelevant. It's a red herring. Are you getting it through your thick skull? Police don't have the right to be judges, juries and executioners.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566383
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566383
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566383
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566383

Here, is that not enough for you after I posted it once already?

Wow, in 80 years you found two rich guys that were actually criminals previously. LMFAO. I bet that took a lot of Googling. Congratulations.

There were 1491 executions in the United States since 1976 alone. One of your criminals was executed in 1944. You are once again inadvertently proving my point.

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Most federal cases don't even go to court. Your 95% figure is misleading since most of the cases end in plea deals.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/11/only-2-of-federal-criminal-defendants-go-to-trial-and-most-who-do-are-found-guilty/

Taylor's boyfriend fired on the police so they had the right to return fire. Taylor was not dealing drugs but there is evidence that she handled the money for the drug ring.

I won't click on a phantom website called "papers". Most of the scientific studies show up in pubmed or are detailed in an article from a reputable scientific journal. I'm also not going to read a 200+ page study on a Saturday.

Roughly half of the states do not allow the death penalty so it's easy to see why people are not getting executed. Kansas allows the death penalty BUT they haven't executed anybody since effing 1965! They chose not to execute the BTK killer and that's a no-brainer.

You haven't proved any points and I don't agree with any of your nonsense.


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The aim of the War on Drugs isn't to win it, the drugs will always win. Human ingenuity is unprecedented... Even in Philippines people still deal drugs despite the death penalty for smuggling or transporting or dealing drugs. It turns out that there are psychopaths and sociopaths who don't care for consequences as well as those that are so without opportunity and so impoverished that they have no other choices in life.

The aim of the War on Drugs is to imprison poor people so they can be slaves in the prison system and perpetuate poverty for later generations. Those with imprisoned fathers or mothers are much more likely to be or stay poor themselves.

The prison system in the US works with the basic and default assumption that all prisoners are incorrigible, so there's no use in trying to reform them. That's why recidivism rates are so high.

For the current system to work, you need an underclass that those in power will exploit and oppress -- whether they be poor people or minorities or immigrants or prisoners. And guess who is supposed to oppress and jail this underclass. The same idiots (and they are idiots; they don't hire intelligent people on purpose) which have the strongest union, qualified immunity, salaries way above what they actually deserve (especially for being so ineffective, unfit and undertrained for their jobs, especially when compared with police officers in many other first world countries) and who are basically thugs with badges and military-grade weaponry.

Great idea, let's give idiotic thugs with badges impunity and some APCs, let's see what happens, instead of reforming the system and addressing the root causes of crime.

The richest country in the world has the biggest prison population (despite being 4% of the world's population) and the highest incarceration rate. Yeah, I'm sure that's just a coincidence. The prison population has ballooned since the 1980s - an increase of +68% in citizens, yet 5x the amount of prisoners since the 80s.

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Even though you are spewing all this venom about the police, you'll be calling them when some thug is trying to break down your door. Police get paid well because it's a dangerous job that not many want. A police job is also a path to the middle-class for a person without an education. I want the police to be tough with criminals and the intellectuals probably cannot pass the various physical tests. There are some jobs that are less dangerous within police departments but a first responder is expected to run towards danger.

Nobody will want the job as a policeman if qualified immunity is revoked. Retention and recruitment of police will plummet if the public does not stand behind the police. The public will have to decide whether they support criminals or cops. I support the cops.

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why are you arguing with frosal, he's a facist

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This coming from a guy that denies Nazis exist today.

Fuck off, spamming retard.

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Other countries don't have qualified immunity and they're doing just fine. Crime rate is way lower too. You're patently awful at this, but you already know that, don't you?

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Breonna Taylor was part of the drug ring that destroyed lives, families and neighborhoods.


Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat.

The onus of proof is on you. And you have not met that burden with your fake news sources.

And even if she were, the cops got a warrant based on false premises, which is why they're being charged.

And even if they got it fair and square...

POLICE AREN'T JUDGES.

THEY AREN'T THE JURY.

AND THEY SHOULDN'T BE EXECUTIONERS.

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One third of all strangers killed are killed by cops.

One third of those killed were killed while running.

Something like 40 percent of cops are guilty of domestic abuse.

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All this just to solve 2% of major crimes. It's patently clear what the purpose of the police is.


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The leaked police report is the first link and that has a lot of information tying Taylor to her the drug ring. Snopes did an analysis of some of the information and they found that Taylor did associate with the drug dealer in the months before her death.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63943132/breonna-taylor-summary-redacted1 * leaked report *

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/10/14/investigating-breonna-taylor/

Taylor's boyfriend fired on the police and the police should be allowed to return fire. The police had a no-knock
warrant but they did identify themselves.

Your statistics are meaningless since a true accounting of all crimes is not possible. Many bodies are never
found. The Tennessee vs. Garner Supreme Court case allows cops to shoot fleeing criminals when the cops deem
them to be a threat to society or the cop.

I will call the police and I will support the police. The police help maintain law and order in society.

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Cool, call them, but temper your expectations. Half the country doesn't call them, I wonder why. Your crime will be solved in 2% of cases, if that (according to your own logic the conviction rate for major crimes is supposed to be even lower).

The leaked police report written by the same police that faked the warrant. Golly gee, aren't they a trustworthy bunch.

Never trust the government! But trust the tools of the government that seek to oppress you implicitly!

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MUH POLICE!!! They're only effective in the state's economic war against poor people (e.g. War on Drugs) and nothing else.

How effective are police at solving crime? It turns out, unfortunately, not very effective. This is the first major contribution of this Article, providing a national review of police effectiveness for major crimes. People turn to police when they are victims of serious crime only about half the time, and much less often for some crimes. Of the crimes we know about, police are able to arrest individuals on average about 10% of the time for major crimes committed, and convict individuals less than 2% of the time. That is to say, police bring less than 2% of criminal defendants to criminal accountability for major crimes. The ranges of criminal accountability vary with the seriousness of the crime, wit murder having the highest rate of accountability. At police's best, in some years, 40 to 52% of murderers are getting away with their crimes. With rape, individuals are getting away with it up to 90% of the time. And property crimes are much worse with burglars getting away with it 97% of the time, robbers 94%, and those who commit larceny 99% of the time. This lack of police effectiveness means people are getting away with serious crime, and victims are suffering as a result.


https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3566383

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ABOLISH THE POLICE!

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You're from Vermont so you don't really need police. It's way too cold for the criminals and most everybody is armed with
shotguns and rifles.

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2016/11/14/vt-ranks-no-1-safest-states-list/93799588/

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True enough...

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You idiots couldn't survive in a world without cops. Dumbass.

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Yet another brilliant insight from CraigCunt...

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It's a fact. You stupid asses run your mouths about abolishing the police for appearances but you don't have the capability, the will or the constitution to survive in a world without them. Yours is a world of wishful thinking and delusions.

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FACT: The root cause of this is the war on drugs. Prove me wrong.

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Ok. We could end the war on drugs and drug dealing would be still illegal. Ending the war on drugs means decriminalization, which I support. Basically, people caught with personal amounts would be fined and/or ordered to get treatment. Its worked quite well in other countries.

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Dunno why it's the cops fault when they breached and then the guy started firing before they returned fire, striking Breonna. If anything it's the no-knock warrant raids that were allowed to being with. The cops were just doing their jobs within the bounds that were allowed. If cops are smart, they'll just stop policing or no-knock's altogether.

Update:
Falsifying affidavits to obtain an arrest or entry is unacceptable. they were acquitted locally, oddly enough... Meh, nvm then.

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