KY - Breonna Taylor, 26, fatally shot multiple times by LE, Louisville, 13 Mar 2020 #2

[Kudzuu]

Judge rules Breonna Taylor's boyfriend caused her death, throws out major charges against ex-Louisville officers

The judge also threw out major felony charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying a warrant.

www.cbsnews.com

If that warrant was BS then that means they forced themselves into a home without permission. That wouldve given the bf to fire back at them

I've always heard if you shoot someone trying to break in make sure you pull them inside. But that is my opinion.

Louisville has a lot of crime issues. Here in Lexington the police do not use no knock warrants. MOO

 

[kaen]

Okay, then. Makes no sense to me. Breonna will probably never get justice. Her family must be devastated again that those who conspired to raid that apartment are not responsible for the chain of events that killed her. JMHO.

 

[PrairieWind]

Judge rules Breonna Taylor's boyfriend caused her death, throws out major charges against ex-Louisville officers

The judge also threw out major felony charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying a warrant.

www.cbsnews.com

If that warrant was BS then that means they forced themselves into a home without permission. That wouldve given the bf to fire back at them

Well, no. The officers serving the warrant were allowed to rely upon it. But also remember that while they did initially charge Walker with firing at the police, those charges were dropped because he fired in self defense. Now, there is no question the officers who applied for the warrant on Breonna's apartment lied and misled in the affidavit (these were not the officers that carried out the search warrant however). But they probably could have gotten the warrant without embellishing the facts. So it may be correct to say that the lying on the warrant itself didn't result in her death. Although I could probably make an argument that the lies made it more urgent that it be served that night. The two officers do still face some charges for falsifying info on the warrant affidavit.

 

[PrairieWind]

I wonder how that officer that pled guilty feels now?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The two cops who actually shot Taylor—Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove—were never charged. Prosecutors said they did not know their colleagues had lied to obtain the warrant. Instead, the Justice Department blamed the four other officers for Taylor’s death. But on Thursday, Judge Simpson disagreed.

“While the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events that ended in Taylor’s death, it also alleges that [Taylor’s boyfriend, Walker] disrupted those events when he decided to open fire” on the police, Simpson wrote. Walker’s “decision to open fire,” he added, “is the legal cause of her death.”

The ruling effectively reduced some of the felony charges against Jaynes and Meany, which had carried a maximum sentence of life in prison, to misdemeanors. But officers are not totally off the hook: The judge refused to dismiss a charge against Jaynes for conspiracy and a charge against Meany for lying to the FBI. Goodlett, who pleaded guilty to federal charges, is expected to testify against them at their trials. A fourth former officer, Brett Hankison, also faces a retrial for federal charges in October.

Taylor’s family said prosecutors plan to appeal this week’s ruling. “Obviously we are devastated,” the family wrote in a statement to the Associated Press. “The only thing we can do at this point is continue to be patient…we will continue to fight until we get full justice for Breonna Taylor.”

Judge rules Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, not police, caused her death

The court dismissed major charges against the cops, but they're still going to trial.

www.motherjones.com

 

[PrairieWind]

The two cops who actually shot Taylor—Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove—were never charged. Prosecutors said they did not know their colleagues had lied to obtain the warrant. Instead, the Justice Department blamed the four other officers for Taylor’s death. But on Thursday, Judge Simpson disagreed.

“While the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events that ended in Taylor’s death, it also alleges that [Taylor’s boyfriend, Walker] disrupted those events when he decided to open fire” on the police, Simpson wrote. Walker’s “decision to open fire,” he added, “is the legal cause of her death.”

The ruling effectively reduced some of the felony charges against Jaynes and Meany, which had carried a maximum sentence of life in prison, to misdemeanors. But officers are not totally off the hook: The judge refused to dismiss a charge against Jaynes for conspiracy and a charge against Meany for lying to the FBI. Goodlett, who pleaded guilty to federal charges, is expected to testify against them at their trials. A fourth former officer, Brett Hankison, also faces a retrial for federal charges in October.

Taylor’s family said prosecutors plan to appeal this week’s ruling. “Obviously we are devastated,” the family wrote in a statement to the Associated Press. “The only thing we can do at this point is continue to be patient…we will continue to fight until we get full justice for Breonna Taylor.”

Judge rules Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, not police, caused her death

The court dismissed major charges against the cops, but they're still going to trial.

www.motherjones.com

The officers that fired the shots that killed Breonna did nothing wrong. They were carrying out a search warrant based upon the information provided to them. The fault here maybe lay with the federal prosecutors and the way that they chose to charge this, and I honestly wondering if it wasn't intentional, at least in part. Regardless, Meany and jaynes should still be facing felony charges in STATE court, but that case was taken over by the DOJ. It appears that NOTHING is going well in this case.