CC: Today’s episode is dedicated to Breonna Taylor who passed away March 13th 2020, exactly one year and one day ago.
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Hey, it’s Naohomie, or Niemah (nee-ma), or نعمة; whatever you feel comfortable calling me.
Since her (Breonna Taylor) death has hit the one year mark, I just want to go back and review the case and see the developments that have been made since, or the lack there of, and see which steps need to be taken in order to hold all parties accountable.
So on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor’s house was invaded under the premise or the jurisdiction of a no knock warrant. If you don’t know what a no knock warrant is, a no knock warrant is when a judge issues a warrant that allows law-enforcement or police officers to enter any property.. um.. involved in the case obviously, without notifying the residents or the homeowners.
So let’s talk about what happened after her (Breonna Taylor) death. After Breonna Taylor died, Metro Council unanimously passed “Breonna’s law“ which basically bans this type of warrant. This law also requires that police officers MUST turn on body cameras five minutes prior and after searches. Failure to do so, they say, will result in disciplinary action. Later that month Chief Robert Schroeder decided to terminate Bret Hankinson; one of the officers who intruded Taylor‘s apartment and shot into it. Bret violated procedure when he “blindly” fired a total of ten rounds into Taylor’s apartment. The other two animals involved in this case were Myers Cosgrove and Jonathan Mattingly who were both placed on administrative reassignment afterwards.
To this day we still are actually unsure why the no knock warrant was even issued for this case.. um.. and the detective who issued this no knock warrant is also on administrative reassignment.
The Louisville Metro Police Department then fired Brett due to his violations which were:
-four counts of standard operating procedure violations on obedience to rules and regulations.
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-10 counts of standard operating procedures on use of deadly force.
However, this wasn’t the first time Brett was disciplined on the force. On January 9, 2019, he was actually disciplined for reckless conduct that injured an innocent person in case #17-062.
In December, the Louisville Metro Police Department also came up with an 11 member civilian review and accountability board that basically just allows citizens to review all complaints made against the department and see if they were ruled fairly or not.
On January of this year, so January 2021, nearly 9 months later, LMPD (Louisville Metro Police Department) decided to fire two more officers involved in Taylor‘s murder; Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes. These are all the major developments that happened as a result to this case, but this is NOT ENOUGH. An innocent life was taken due to police incompetence. Firing individuals that were involved does not make up for the life that they have stolen. These officers need to be arrested for the murder that they have committed, just like anyone else would have been. So this is where we start to talk about defunding the police. Many police officers feel like they’re being mental health counselors, marriage counselors, and so many other things, but why can we do that when we can send people who are trained to de-escalate situations without deadly force to help take care of those issues. I’m sorry, I can’t fit the rest of the cc, I have a word limit. ARTICLE USED: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wwltv.com/amp/article/news/investigations/breonna-taylor-case/breonna-taylor-death-changes-reforms-louisville-year-death-march-13-2020/417-51daf564-a232-452f-a2f5-1f92cf1df424
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