Crime DOJ Files charges against four cops in the Breonna Taylor case for falsifying the arrest warrant

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/justice-deparment-breonna-taylor-1.6541043

Former Louisville detective Joshua Jaynes and current Sgt. Kyle Meany were charged with civil rights violations and obstruction of justice for using false information to obtain the search warrant, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. Current Det. Kelly Goodlett was charged with conspiring with Jaynes to falsify the warrant and then cover up the falsification.

A fourth officer, former detective Brett Hankison, was charged with civil rights violations for allegedly using excessive force, Garland said.

Garland alleged that in May 2020, Jaynes and Goodlett "met in a garage, where they agreed to tell investigators a false story" concerning the deadly raid.

Meany is also accused of lying to the FBI in an interview about the incident.

Louisville police on Thursday began the process of firing Meany and Goodlett, the department said in a statement. Hankison and Jaynes were previously fired by the department.

Hankison was one of the officers at Taylor's door and one of three who fired shots that night. He is now accused by the Justice Department of using "constitutionally excessive force" in the raid.

Hankison, prosecutors said, moved away from the door, firing 10 shots into Taylor's apartment through a window and a glass door that were covered by blinds and curtains.

Hankison told a Kentucky grand jury that he opened fire once the shooting started. As he saw flashes light up the room, he said he mistakenly believed one of the occupants was firing an assault-style rifle at his colleagues.

A jury acquitted him of state charges of wanton endangerment earlier this year in Louisville. The lawyer representing Hankison in his previous trial said he planned to surrender to the FBI on the new charge Thursday, but that he would likely contest the charge.

Jaynes, who applied for the warrant to search Taylor's house, was fired in January 2021 by former Louisville Police interim chief Yvette Gentry for violating department standards in the preparation of a search warrant execution and for being "untruthful" in the Taylor warrant.

Justice Department officials said Thursday that a broader investigation into whether the Louisville Police Department engages in a so-called "pattern or practice" of violations of law is ongoing.

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So for clarity, the officers carrying out the warrant are not being charged, but those who drafted or initiated it are (due to clear editing or creation after the fact).

Story isn't quite over it appears!
 
Teach your daughters not to associate with drug dealers.

Sure.

And teach them that the drug war is government overreach and wasted tax payer money, and if you're a LEO, don't falsify documents, lie, shoot blindly into an apartment, and vote against this type of policing.
 
Any charges and prison time they can bring out of this is a good. Those cops got off because the Attorney General was biases in favor of the cops, withholding evidence that was bad for the cops but allowing testimony that helped the cops.
 
How about this, no drugs are illegal for recreational usage but the selling and or distribution of them carries a death sentence. Then drug users are responsible for the manufacture of their own drugs for consumption. If you can't grow it or create it in your home lab on your own you're just SOL for usage.
 
Sure.

And teach them that the drug war is government overreach and wasted tax payer money, and if you're a LEO, don't falsify documents, lie, shoot blindly into an apartment, and vote against this type of policing.
Most cops are scum but that does not change the importance of my post. She was on camera running boxes in out of a stash house also. Someone should have tried to steer her into a better path instead of letting her run with drug dealers and then going nuts when she got killed in a police shooting.

Also I don’t remember if this was a no-knock warrant or not but if it was that is another big issue. No-knock lead to a lot of bad things.
 
Most cops are scum but that does not change the importance of my post. She was on camera running boxes in out of a stash house also. Someone should have tried to steer her into a better path instead of letting her run with drug dealers and then going nuts when she got killed in a police shooting.

Also I don’t remember if this was a no-knock warrant or not but if it was that is another big issue. No-knock lead to a lot of bad things.


There was no evidence that linked her ex's business to her apartment or her current boyfriend.

If they hadn't lied in the warrant, the shootout, which very nearly got her neighbors killed, never would've happened.

If this shit was as clearcut as you're making it sound, then competent investigators would've been able to make the case without initiating an illegal search.
 
So they cooked up a warrant for some random guy?

They cooked up a warrant for the apartment that she shared with her current boyfriend, who had no criminal record.

Her ex was the drug dealer that they had under surveillance. There was no connection between him and the apartment that they tried to raid, but they assumed that they would get lucky and tie her in, so they lied about her ex shipping packages there.
 
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Say her name
Queen Breonna bless.
 
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Falsifying search warrants should make everyone upset. No one should try to shift the blame away from those officers.

Protection from illegal search and seizure is protection in the Constitution as strong as any other protection, such as the 2A. People should understand that this falsification of the search warrant is as egregious as the government randomly entering your home and taking your guns or barring you from your church or preventing you from gathering to express your political opinions.

It's really fucked up stuff.

It's just as fucked up that anyone would be okay with a blatant breach of the 4th Amendment.
 
So now it is the LEO system that is the issue? So the world would be a crime free utopia if it weren’t for those pesky cops?
Hey anymore strawman arguments you got there? Where did I saw we should have a cop free world?

Far too often the system protects its own and resists accountability. This needs fixing big time.
 
Falsifying search warrants should make everyone upset. No one should try to shift the blame away from those officers.

Protection from illegal search and seizure is protection in the Constitution as strong as any other protection, such as the 2A. People should understand that this falsification of the search warrant is as egregious as the government randomly entering your home and taking your guns or barring you from your church or preventing you from gathering to express your political opinions.

It's really fucked up stuff.
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Nah , we should always find a way to blame the victims, especially if they are Black. We should dig up their history and find out all the bad things they did.
 
There was no evidence that linked her ex's business to her apartment or her current boyfriend.

If they hadn't lied in the warrant, the shootout, which very nearly got her neighbors killed, never would've happened.

If this shit was as clearcut as you're making it sound, then competent investigators would've been able to make the case without initiating an illegal search.
There definitely was, his recorded jail conversations gave evidence that she was holding money for him and receiving packages of his.
 
Most cops are scum but that does not change the importance of my post. She was on camera running boxes in out of a stash house also. Someone should have tried to steer her into a better path instead of letting her run with drug dealers and then going nuts when she got killed in a police shooting.

Also I don’t remember if this was a no-knock warrant or not but if it was that is another big issue. No-knock lead to a lot of bad things.

I don't agree with your premise about cops. I also don't care what she was doing with boxes or what was in them -- she didn't deserve to die and frankly I don't think the resources used were ethical in tracking down whether or not people are selling weed to other people.

Cops should not have a right to bust down your door in the middle of the night and risk you defending yourself (and therefore them defending themselves) for the sake of playing whack a mole with marijuana dealers (or any kind of dealer). It's literally futile and pointless. That sort of shit should be reserved for rescuing hostages and stopping murders/rapes/etc.

Instead, if someone is mailing some dope, LEO have legal rights to bust down doors with guns in the middle of the night and then start indiscriminately shooting back when shot at when those people try to defend themselves against an unknown intrusion.

FUCK that kind of policing. Sure, Taylor's actions didn't help her life at all. Can't deny it. But the circumstances should be changed at the root.
 
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