(09-24-2020, 07:16 AM)mikesez Wrote: Breonna Taylor's involvement (or lack of involvement) in selling drugs isn't relevant.  The cops were not expecting to find her there. She wasn't the reason they came.
Based on what I've heard about the incident, I agree with only charging the one cop for shooting into the nearby apartment unit.
Those cops had orders to execute a search warrant regardless of resistance.  They should never have been given those orders, but they acted within them.
It might be best to not ever do a no-knock warrant again. It would certainly be best to train cops to fall back to covered positions if they ever face resistance while executing a warrant.  Calling for backup and negotiators because a standoff has begun is always better than calling in EMTs because someone's bleeding out.

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Thankfully, neither of the officers has a life-threatening injury.
And the suspect is in custody, they brought him in alive.
Sad that it even happened, but at least the system is working this time.

She was the reason they had a warrant for her apartment. She got deliveries for the ring leader at her place, she hid money for him, she delivered cars with who knows what in them, rented a car that then had a dead body in it. The cops had the evidence to get a no knock warrant. The cops definitely expected to find her there and expected to search the house. They did not search the house for a long time because they had to then get a new warrant after the shooting. The boyfriend was also in the house alone for a long time and did not render care, so he was doing something else.

Also the cops were not swat, normally swat should be used for a no knock warrant but they were not. I don't know the training for the cops, but I doubt they are trained well enough for that. If someone is firing, they either need to fire or retreat. Most cops are trained to keep firing until the shooting stops which is hard to hear when multiple people are firing.

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