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This from July and WDRB
Former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison was "worked up" and told to "relax" shortly before the early-morning raid on Breonna Taylor's home, according to a recorded interview with one of the officers involved.
The recording sheds new light on the March shooting at Taylor's apartment, where police were serving a "no-knock" search warrant, including Hankison's actions in the minutes before officers used a battering ram to enter the unit.
Police Chief Robert Schroeder fired Hankison in May, accusing him of displaying "extreme indifference to the value of human life" by "blindly" firing 10 rounds into Taylor's apartment. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency room tech, was shot five times and died.
Now, for the first time publicly, the newly released interviews provide the full accounts of Sgt. Jon Mattingly, who led the March 13 raid, and Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who was with Taylor in the apartment.
As police prepared to serve the warrant, a man appeared on an outside staircase and began arguing with officers and telling them to "leave that girl alone or something like that," Mattingly told investigators on March 25. Among those officers was Hankison, he said.
The neighbor "was being belligerent," Mattingly said. "I don't know why. I mean, I don't know if he was drunk or what. But he was being very hostile from the get-go. As soon as the contact was made he was just arguing back."
"I remember Brett extending his gun saying, 'Get back in your apartment! Get back in your apartment!'" Mattingly said.
"Brett was a little bit worked up, and I remember at one point … I remember looking at Brett and saying, 'Brett, relax. Brett, just relax. Relax.' Because, you know, while you got to pay attention to him, it's not your focus."
Mattingly's full interview with the LMPD's Public Integrity Unit occurred 12 days after the shooting. He was hospitalized for three days after Walker shot him in the leg, he said.
Mattingly told Sgts. Amanda Seelye and Jason Vance of the Public Integrity Unit that officers met at 10 p.m. on March 12 for a "pre-operational briefing." He described Taylor as a "soft target" who was believed to be alone in her apartment on Springfield Drive near Pleasure Ridge Park.
"We were told that the target, their main target, the male, had packages sent to this location in her name. She held – possibly held dope for him, received the packages and received his money," Mattingly said.
That is presumably a reference to Jamarcus Glover, a drug suspect whom Det. Joshua Jaynes wrote in a March 12 search warrant affidavit was believed to be keeping drugs or proceeds from drug sales at Taylor's apartment.
Nothing illegal was found in Taylor's apartment.
In May, a Louisville postal inspector told WDRB News that police did not use his office to verify that Glover was receiving packages at Taylor's home. And, in fact, he said a different law enforcement agency asked his office in January to investigate whether Taylor's home was receiving any potentially suspicious mail.
After looking into the request, he said, the local office concluded there were "no packages of interest" delivered there.
The recordings of Mattingly and Walker's police interviews were released to Louisville media by Rob Eggert, an attorney representing Walker. NBC News first reported their content.
There is no body camera footage of the police raid, resulting in substantial differences in the accounts of what happened.
Walker met with police investigators Seelye and Sgt. Chad Tinnell just before 4 a.m. March 13.
He agreed to waive his Miranda rights and speak with them without an attorney. Seelye, who would later appear on prosecutors' behalf at Walker's grand jury hearing, told him they investigate police shootings.
Walker said he and Taylor had just fallen asleep while the two were watching the movie "Freedom Writers" when loud banging started on the apartment door. Taylor, who was startled out of her sleep, began asking, "Who is it?" Walker said, to no response.
Walker said his first thought was that one of Taylor's former boyfriends was outside.
"So we're like, 'What the heck?' We both get up, start putting on clothes – another knock at the door," Walker said. "She's like, 'Who is it?' loud at the top of her lungs. No response.
"… It's a long hallway," Walker told investigators. "Even if somebody was saying something on the other side, you probably couldn't hear them. But, as loud as we were screaming … I know whoever was on the other side of the door could hear us."
In the hallway outside Taylor's bedroom, Walker said he fired a shot from his licensed Glock handgun as the door to Taylor's apartment flew off its hinges.
"I feel like I aimed down a little bit," Walker said. "I don't need to kill anybody if I could just get you out of here just hearing that."
"The door's busted open, and I hear a bunch of yelling and I'm just panicking," Walker told investigators. "I'm telling somebody – I'm yelling, 'Help' because she's right here bleeding and nobody's coming and I'm just confused and scared and I feel the same right now."
Walker told investigators that, upon leaving the apartment, a uniformed LMPD officer with a K-9 threatened to release the dog on him and said that Walker was going to spend the rest of his life in prison.
"I just don't like when people do that," said Tinnell, who asked Walker if he could describe the officer physically. Walker said he couldn't identify him, but that it was the first uniformed officer he came into contact with.
"He asked me, 'Were you hit by any bullets?'" Walker told investigators. "I said, 'No.'" He said, 'That's unfortunate.'"
"That's not appropriate then," Tinnell said.
"No, not at all," Seelye added.
As Walker was being taken from the scene in a police car to the interview with investigators, he said the car stopped in a parking lot and was approached by a non-uniformed man driving a silver SUV.
"A guy came to my window and he was asking my name," Walker said. "… The first thing I said to him was, 'Is she alive?' He was like, 'Well we'll talk about that when you get to where you're going.'"
Walker then said the man told him there had been a "misunderstanding."
"His tone was totally different from everybody else's," Walker told investigators. "He was being real nice. I'm not an idiot; I feel like they figured out something; they did something wrong."
When Walker asked why he was told there had been an investigation, Seelye said, "That's some new information for us, as well."
"That's what we're trying to learn," she added.
As Tinnell was taking Walker to use the restroom during a break in interview, he asked Walker if he had been injured or bruised.
Seelye's role in interviewing Walker, then providing a partial account to a grand jury that indicted him, prompted Eggert, Walker's attorney, to question Thursday whether her job was to "investigate what happened or pin the case on Walker?"
On Thursday, Commonwealth's Attorney Tom Wine acknowledged that a better practice would be "for an officer outside of PIU (public integrity unit) to investigate the underlying allegations against a suspect" in a police shooting.
Wine said he previously had "expressed concern" to then-Chief Steve Conrad about the practice of "one officer handling both investigations."
Mattingly's account
In the meeting before the raid, Mattingly said police were told that while a "no-knock" warrant for Taylor's home was approved, the team executing the warrant had been asked to announce their presence and knock.
Mattingly said officers began approaching the apartment around 12:35 a.m. He said the team did not identify themselves during the first "bang on the door. I think after that we did. I couldn't be sure if it was the second."
"But again, there was probably six or seven different contacts of multiple banging on the doors and after that each one of them had, 'Police! Come to the door. Search warrant.'"
Mattingly, who said he was the only one knocking, said Hankison also was yelling that police were serving a search warrant.
Mattingly said police spent 45 seconds to 1 minute knocking on the door, or "more than enough time for the average person, or even a disabled person, to get to the door in a small apartment." LOL, even a "disabled person." What a prick.
(That account diverges from that of two neighbors who filed a lawsuit against police. They claim officers approached Taylor's apartment "in a manner that kept them from being detected by neighbors" and entered the residence "without knocking and without announcing themselves as police officers.") The report from the AG said a different witness said he heard the officers say police. Just ONE sole witness vs others that lived there saying different.
At one point, he said, another officer said he could hear someone inside but then the sound stopped. Then, Mattingly said, officers used a battering ram to break down the door.
After he entered the apartment, Mattingly said he stepped out from the doorway and then saw a man and a woman "perpendicular to each other, side by side shoulder to shoulder." Neither said a word, he said.
"My brain was going: What is this, you know? This isn't normal. It's not the normal way people stand in a house together," he said. The man, Walker, was in a "shooting stance," he said.
Mattingly said an officer doing surveillance on the apartment before the raid reported that the only light in the unit was the glow of a television in the bedroom, a detail that matches Walker's account.
Inside the apartment, Mattingly said he could "see enough to see a male on the right, a female on the left. Could I identify their faces? No. But I could actually see the handgun in his hand. I remember seeing the barrel of that soon as we turned that corner. And as soon as it did, the flash and the heat." So many different versions from Mattingly from all the reports. He has said he only heard a gunshot and didn't realize he was hit till he retreated. He has said as the door flung open he saw 2 individuals, one female and one male standing in front of him. And the male in a "stretched out position" holding a gun. He has said after the door opened he didn't see the 2 people till he cleared the door. Clearing the door is confusing and baffling. If he means the door itself. He has already said he sees 2 people in front of him as the door was busted open. But if he means he has to clear around the view of the door, that wouldn't make sense because the door opened to the left and he said both were in front. Plus in another statement he says the female is in the hallway and a male in a stretched out position is holding a gun to his right. Clearing the door and it being to the left would've put him in the back corner of apartment in the little dining area. And he has said he didn't realize he was hit till he started firing at the male and had backed out of apartment.
Vance, the police investigator asked Mattingly, "Your backdrop is an illuminated breezeway, correct?"
Mattingly: "Correct. Correct."
Vance: "And if you have a dark space, you have a door that's now open and you have illumination behind you, whether you had your tactical light on or weapons (inaudible) light, would, I mean, in your experience I guess what I'm asking, you would be illuminated more ---"
Mattingly: "Yes, I would have the outline on me."
After he was hit in the leg, Mattingly said, he fired four rounds before trying to leave the apartment. He said he did not see anyone else fire shots, although he heard them once he was in the parking lot. From all accounts and i assume ballistics from FBI -it's been said Walker(the current BF) only fired one shot. He has said he backed out of doorway and continued firing into apartment. And after he ran out of bullets Radio communications has him coming on and saying he's hit in his femoral and then saying to reload and then a second wave of shots are fired. But yet he is saying he only fired 4 rounds, and that he heard more once in the parking lot. He never left that breezeway during the whole encounter, much less retreated all way out to the parking lot.
The police department conducted internal investigations into the actions of the Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove. Jaynes, the detective who applied for the no-knock warrant on Taylor's apartment, has been re-assigned.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is reviewing the case to determine if three officers involved in the raid – Mattingly, Cosgrove and Hankison – will face any criminal charges. The FBI is also conducting an independent investigation of the shooting and the application for the warrant.
Also on Thursday, Taylor family attorneys Ben Crump, Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker said the recorded interviews of Walker and Mattingly "clearly reveal that there has been a conspiracy to cover up Breonna's killing since day one."
The attorneys said in a statement that despite Mattingly's claim, the interviews "substantiate" that police did not announce themselves before they burst into Taylor's home. In addition, they said the warrant and its execution relied on "erroneous information, and that Louisville police actively worked to cover up Breonna's brutal murder."
"Enough is enough," the attorneys said. "It is time for all the officers involved in that tragic night to be terminated from their positions and to be charged with the murder of Breonna Taylor."Comment -
Ahh yes...judges and jurors rule on civil suits all the time in favor of innocent people with absolutely no proof of wrongdoing.
"The previous high was $8.5 million for Edwin Chandler, who spent nine years in prison for a murder which a court later found he did not commit. He was exonerated in 2012."Comment -
Was an overreaction case.Ahh yes...judges and jurors rule on civil suits all the time in favor of innocent people with absolutely no proof of wrongdoing.
"The previous high was $8.5 million for Edwin Chandler, who spent nine years in prison for a murder which a court later found he did not commit. He was exonerated in 2012."
You always wait for the criminal case to convict then go for a fortune in a civil case.
They knew they had no criminal case. Fully justified. City was scared so they settled.
Bs civil case. Week minded settling.
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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump called the settlement "historic," and said the agreement to reform the police department could set a precedent for similar wrongful death lawsuits against officers across the country.
He also "demanded" charges be filed this week by Attorney General Daniel Cameron against the LMPD officers involved in Taylor's shooting, saying they should at least be charged with second-degree manslaughter.
While Fischer said the settlement isn't an acknowledgment of wrongdoing, city officials had already admitted some mistakes were made during the undercover raid and fired one of the officers involved in the March 13 fatal shooting of Taylor, an emergency room tech and former EMT.
And some changes had already been made before the settlement, including that all officers must now wear and use body cameras when serving warrants. And Fischer ordered a top-to-bottom review of the department by an outside agency.
The settlement includes several reforms to the police department, including that a commanding officer will review and approve all search warrants and an overhaul of the process in obtaining simultaneous warrants. And officers must have their body cameras activated for when they make seizures, including when counting money and placing it into an evidence bag.
"We must have transparency and accountability for the work our officers do," Fischer said.
The lawsuit, filed in April, claimed officers obtained a “no-knock” search warrant with false information and burst into Taylor’s home after midnight without announcing themselves and "blindly fired" into it, spraying bullets into her house and neighboring apartments "with a total disregard for the value of human life.”
Suspected drug dealer Jamarcus Glover was the main target of several search warrants in the early morning hours of March 13 – and was taken into custody 10 miles away from Taylor’s apartment - and police have been heavily criticized for the deadly raid of Taylor’s home. No drugs or money were found in her apartment.
Taylor’s death touched off Louisville’s racial justice protests and gained national prominence as demonstrations spread across the U.S. in response to the death of George Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man who died after a white officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck as he pleaded, “I can’t breathe.”
Also as part of the settlement, the city has agreed to implement an early action warning system to identify officers with red flags.
One of the officers in the Taylor raid, Brett Hankison, was fired in June after then Chief Robert Schroeder accused him of "wantonly and blindly (firing) 10 rounds" into a patio door and window of Taylor's apartment, creating a "substantial danger of death and serious injury" to Taylor and three occupants of other apartments.
Schroeder told Hankison in the letter that the detective's conduct in Taylor's shooting was "a shock to the conscience," and that he was "alarmed and stunned" at Hankison's use of deadly force.
Hankison has a long history of being investigated by police – including for receiving sexual favors from suspects, using excessive force and accidentally driving over another officer – and mostly recently several women came forward claiming he sexually assaulted them.
Two other officers identified in the suit as firing shots, Det. Myles Cosgrove and Sgt. John Mattingly, are on administrative leave.
And police will end the "closed by exception" ruling where LMPD investigators close an investigation into an officer because they retire or quit. This effectively seals the alleged misconduct and allows officers to go to another department with an unblemished record.
In past years, police have said if an officer leaves the department before an investigation has been completed, they cannot make a determination that a policy has been violated.
And police say they are not required to tell other departments about the investigations.
Now, these investigations will often continue and include findings.
In addition, the city will also provide housing credits for officers to live in Louisville and encourage them to perform at least two paid hours of community service each pay period.
Also, a program will be implemented to hire social workers to work with LMPD to "provide support and assistance" on police runs where "their support could be helpful," Fischer said.
And officers will undergo random drug testing.
Until Freedom, a New York-based group that has been advocating for justice for Taylor, released a statement saying the settlement is the "bare minimum" of what needs to be done.
Attorney General Cameron's investigation began in May after Jefferson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine asked for a special prosecutor to investigate the officers’ conduct. At the time, Wine’s office was prosecuting Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend, who admitted to firing at police as they entered the apartment but claimed he believed the officers were intruders.
Charges were dropped against Walker.
Cameron’s office conducted its own independent investigation and reviewed information from the LMPD's Public Integrity Unit, which probes officer shootings and other internal affairs. It received the FBI's ballistics report of the shooting on Aug. 30, Cameron said on Twitter.
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With all this information surrounding that night, multiple ongoing investigations, the mayor and governor calling for the A.G. to make all of the evidence obtained in their investigation public, macaronio still thinks the police involved did nothing wrong..
Guess I shouldn't be surprised..
Read one page of his comments in the other thread and you will see why is the "old school" definition of the word moron...
To a "T."
Stupid people do stupid things no matter what the vocation..
Now as a result, more stupid people are doing stupid things and it solves nothing...
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WTF is the story with the dead body in the car that she rented in 2016?Comment -
My response was to moron about how civil cases are settled all the time with absolutely NO wrongdoings proven. I listed another example from the past that the city paid after courts ruled a dude hadn't been the one who committed a murder.
But if cities are settling with no proof of wrongdoings something is broke in the matrix. Chi-raq has paid out around a billion dollars in civil suits over past decade for police brutality, harassments, wrongful arrest/deaths, etc. That's a lot of bonds issued and interest needed to pay back to cover all those lawsuits.Comment -
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Ya, I want to know more about this as well. Seems like she was more caught up in the game than people are admitting.
Was she also not fired from one of her jobs as a result?
Lkid is doing a good job here, but hard to get the full story any which way.
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From the C-J - This timeline is a little weak.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In the early morning hours of March 13, a Louisville Metro Police search of a home went terribly wrong — ending with an officer shot and Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old ER tech, was dead in her hallway, killed by police.
Much of what is known about the events that led to Taylor's death has come from attorneys for her family, court records and leaked documents, as Louisville Metro Police have declined to comment on specifics of the case or release documents.
Based on records obtained by The Courier Journal, here's what we know about the events that led to Taylor's death:
Dec. 30: Police execute three search warrants in the Russell neighborhood, seizing several guns and narcotics. Among the six people subsequently arrested is Jamarcus Glover, Taylor's ex-boyfriend.
Jan. 2: Using a surveillance camera, police see a white Chevrolet Impala pull up in front of 2424 Elliott Ave. — one of the houses hit with a search warrant a few days earlier. Glover gets out of the passenger side of the car, which is registered to Taylor.From all reports I've seen, it's the only instance noted of a car registered to her that is witnessed dropping Glover off at Elliot Ave.
Jan. 16: Glover is seen driving to Taylor's Springfield Drive apartment and walking inside. After a brief stay, police see Glover leave with "a suspected USPS package" and then drives to a house on West Muhammad Ali Boulevard, which was also hit with a search warrant on Dec. 30.
USPS found no suspicious activity with Breonna's mail
Feb. 14: After an officer tows his car from West Muhammad Ali Boulevard, Glover attempts to file a complaint against the officer. The phone number he gave on the complaint was registered to Taylor.Why? Who knows. Their relationship could've been innocent young girl with clean record is smooth talked by a small time hustler and keeps her on the side for instances like this. Maybe he had no phone at time. Or maybe because he deals drugs he don't want to give his number because it probably a new number being he just got arrested awhile back. Or maybe Breonna didn't even know. But irrelevant regardless. But detectives think it means something.
March 12: Warrants are set in motion
Midday: Detective Joshua Jaynes, an officer in the Place-Based Investigations unit of the Criminal Interdiction Division, requests five no-knock search warrants from Circuit Judge Mary Shaw for an ongoing narcotics investigation.
12:25 p.m.: Shaw signs off on the affidavits for the first two warrants for houses at 2424 and 2425 Elliott Ave. Six minutes later, Shaw signs off on 2426 Elliott Ave., and then four minutes after that, she approves 2605 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. All four homes are in the Russell Neighborhood.
12:37 p.m.: Shaw signs off on the search for Taylor's apartment, 10 miles away in South Louisville.
In the affidavit for the warrant, Jaynes wrote that:
Glover's car had made "frequent" trips to Taylor's Springfield Drive apartment.I think it was a total of 7 over a 2 month period.
Glover walked directly into Taylor's apartment on Jan. 16.It was clearly stated on paperwork obtained through records released -that during the course of the investigation Glover was seen "visiting" her apartment on various occasions. They(the detectives) knew Glover didn't live there and mainly stayed at the house on M.Ali Blvd. or one of the various trap houses on Elliot Ave.
A U.S. postal inspector verified Glover received packages at Taylor's apartment.This is zhitty journalism by the CJ or the writer of this timeline. It has been noted by other CJ articles and all 4 major local news channels, that the local USPS postmaster has stated that a separate 3rd party investigative service questioned them about her mail and packages and the postmaster(or spokesperson for the local USPS)have said nothing was suspicious.
Taylor's car had been seen in front of Elliott Avenue on "different occasions." From all accounts and details released over past 5 months, it has only been stated that it was witnessed dropping Glover off one time on Elliot Ave.
Approximately 9 p.m.: Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, get home from dinner at Texas Roadhouse and giving a friend's kids rides across town. It was Taylor's first night off after a few consecutive days with 12-hour shifts as an ER technician. They climb in bed and put on a movie.
Approximately 10 p.m.: Police officers are briefed on the entry plan for Taylor's apartment.
Just before midnight: About 45 minutes before serving the warrant, Mattingly said he drove by Taylor's apartment, while another officer, detective Mike Campbell, "had the eye on the house." The only thing Campbell saw while watching Taylor's apartment, Mattingly said, was the light on the TV in the bedroom. Police thought Taylor would be home alone, he said.
Inside the apartment, Taylor had fallen asleep as the movie "Freedom Writers" played, and Walker said he was starting to doze off.
12:40 a.m.: Officers were in place outside of Taylor's apartment and began to knock on the door. After a few knocks, Mattingly said, they began to identify themselves as police.
The knocking startles Taylor and Walker out of bed, and they began yelling out, asking who is there, Walker said. They don't hear a response.
After about a minute and hearing no response from inside, police use a battering ram to knock in the front door.
Inside, Walker had grabbed his gun as both he and Taylor pulled on clothes and went to answer the door. They left the bedroom and hadn't made it down the hallway before the door "comes off its hinges," he said.
12:42 a.m.: Neighbors in the St. Anthony Garden Apartments call 911 to report gunshots.Just 1 minute after they were said to of breeched the door.
Walker says he fires one shot as a warning, aimed at the ground, still unable to see and unclear who is at the door. Mattingly and detectives Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison return fire.In 1 minute they breeched the door, Mattingly saw 2 people and one was a male in a "stretched out position" after he "cleared the door", and retreated back because he may or may not of been shot at that point, all while firing back and the other officers blindly started firing, and after out of ammo there is a pause, and on radio Mattingly yells out he's hit in femoral, and then says reload, and then another wave of bullets are fired. All in a minute. Allegedly by the time frame.
12:43 a.m.: Officers on scene call dispatch to report an officer had been shot. Officials say this was the shot Walker fired. Taylor is struck in the return fire by police.
12:47 a.m.: Walker calls 911 and says, "Somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend."After breeching door and knowing there were 2 people, one female and one male and holding a gun, and raining two waves of a hailstorm of bullets into the apartment - FOUR minutes have went by and the officers aren't INSIDE and securing the area?
12:48 a.m.: Taylor's official time of death.
Ten miles away on Elliott Avenue, police have Glover, her ex-boyfriend — the main target of the narcotics investigation — and three of his associates in custody. Officers seize drugs, guns and cash from the Elliott Avenue properties.In previous reports and photos/copies of officers paperwork from the arrests that have been released in past 5 months, the times have been changed on one and didn't match with dispatch times or radio communications, or something like that. It been awhile since I read that article. But the police went to Elliot Ave first, or at least raided it first, around midnight. Doesn't mean the other 3 officers weren't on site and in parking lot of Breonna's apt. complex. But they apparently raided one of the Elliot Ave. homes and had Glover and others in custody on site and were searching the property around 12:20ish
The fifth warrant on West Muhammad Ali Boulevard is not executed.
1 a.m.: Police arrest Walker after commanding him to walk backward as he leaves the apartment.A good 15 minutes later and they still didn't enter after the initial breeching of the door.
1:10 a.m.: Police tell dispatch there's a woman inside the apartment.Mattingly knows that, he has stated that. But again, TEN more minutes have gone by.
1:46 a.m.: EMS leave Taylor's apartment complex.
3:35 a.m.: Police return with a second search warrant for Taylor's apartment.Why? I haven't read about a 2nd warrant till this timeline. They had a warrant.
Inside, they find shell casings and bullets. Police recover no drugs or cash, though they do find mail for Glover. Again, irrelevant. Probably junk mail because he had used her address in the past for no telling how many things.
3:53 a.m.: Sgt. Amanda Seelye and Sgt. Chad Tinnell of the Public Integrity Unit interview Walker, who insists he didn't know it was police on the other side of the door.
"The only reason I even had the gun out (was) because we didn't know who it was. If we knew who it was, that would have never happened," Walker says.
3:30 p.m.: At a news briefing, Lt. Ted Eidem says officers found an "unresponsive woman who was later pronounced dead" inside the apartment, and that officers were "still working through what her involvement was on the narcotics investigation." (Police didn't identify Taylor by name; a coroner's news release later named her as the deceased woman.)
Eidem announces Walker is being charged with the attempted murder of a police officer.Charges dismissed
Police Chief Steve Conrad says no body-camera footage exists of the shooting.
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I'm not aware of the dead body in a car thing. And from what I've read or heard on news she went to college and or technical/trade school on and off, and had been in nursing classes at one point, and got a job with the city to be a County EMS technician and passed some classes and got some sort of certification, but ended up leaving the job because of the long hours and OT(Side note: the county and private ems services all seem to have a hard time keeping people. There have been stories in the past by the CJ about how the county needs to increase the pay and hire more workers. Apparently all of the EMS are stressed because they never have time off.)
So she leaves the County EMS service and goes back to school pt and has two jobs both in the healthcare field. I don't know if she was FT as a ER tech at University, and PT with Baptist Health(I think i read Baptist, may be Norton Health Systems), or maybe was PT with both. But I know it's been stated she worked two jobs and was taking classes pt.
I'll see what i can find about this dead body in car story.
Would find it hard to believe that if she ever rented a car that a dead body was found in(i'm assuming that what kermit meant) that during this 5-6 months that all local newspapers and 4 local news channels would not bring that up. Heck, i haven't even read that in any of the comments for the CJ or 4 local news channels twitter feed under stories about her, or in comments on their websites in stories about her. Most comments are all from Taterhead666, or CrazyBigRick69, or Magapatriotlibtardkicker1, or some zhit like that, and they all go about the same.
Something about [insert the most typical vile bigoted generalized phrase] and follow up with hashtag maga2020, or that WWG1WAG(or whatever the phrase is), and other similar nauseating BS.Comment -
If anyone wants to read a good leadup to why there 4 different warrants for this case, check this article: https://www.wkyt.com/2020/08/26/warr...new-documents/Comment -
Well this is amazing. I guess my local newspaper and all 4 local news stations all suck at reporting news either in print or on their websites. I hadn't even read this from one of the local independent newspaper. I searched for KERMIT story about the dead body in car and found a NYT article that was a mini-novel that had more details(some questionable because been reported different from local channels and newspaper) than I had known from past 5-6 months of reading the CJ and reading articles on the 4 local news channels websites.
From the NYT:
"Court records show that Mr. Glover was convicted of selling cocaine and spent years in prison, starting in 2008 in his home state of Mississippi, where he was handed a 17-year sentence. In 2014, after moving to Kentucky, he was convicted of a second drug offense. He began dating Ms. Taylor in 2016, according to a statement he gave the police.Dude's only 30 I thought - must've got out early - I know from all the times he has supposedly been arrested in Louisville he sure gets back out quickly.
That December, a favor he asked of her — renting a car and lending it to him — ensnared her in a murder inquiry. A man was found slumped over the wheel, eight bullets riddling his body. Inside the car were three baggies of drugs and Ms. Taylor’s rental contract, court records show.
Mr. Glover told officers he had given the keys to a man he knew as “Rambo,” who said he had to run an errand. The internal police report states that the victim was the brother of an associate of Mr. Glover, who had been arrested alongside the drug dealer numerous times. A suspect in the shooting was charged nearly two months later.
Investigators noted that they believed Ms. Taylor had no knowledge of the killing. But they wondered whether she was involved in Mr. Glover’s drug operation, according to a recording of a detective questioning them.
“Are you all into the game?” the detective, Yolanda Baker, asked the couple at Ms. Taylor’s apartment. When Mr. Glover demurred, she pressed, “So how are you getting all these little fine things you’ve got on?”
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The whole NYT Article:
An ex-boyfriend’s run-ins with the law entangled her even as she tried to move on. Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings help explain how she landed in the middle of a deadly drug raid.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Breonna Taylor had just done four overnight shifts at the hospital where she worked as an emergency room technician. To let off some steam, she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, planned a date night: dinner at a steakhouse, followed by a movie in bed.
Usually, they headed to his apartment, where he lived alone and she had left a toothbrush and a flat iron. But that night, they went to the small unit she shared with her younger sister, who was away on a trip. It was dark when the couple pulled into the parking lot, then closed the door to Apartment 4 behind them.
This was the year of big plans for the 26-year-old: Her home was brimming with the Post-it notes and envelopes on which she wrote her goals. She had just bought a new car. Next on the list: buying her own home. And trying to have a baby with Mr. Walker. They had already chosen a name.
She fell asleep next to him just after midnight on March 13, the movie still playing. “The last thing she said was, ‘Turn off the TV,’” he said in an interview.
From the parking lot, undercover officers surveilling Ms. Taylor’s apartment before a drug raid saw only the blue glow of the television.
When they punched in the door with a battering ram, Mr. Walker, fearing an intruder, reached for his gun and let off one shot, wounding an officer. He and another officer returned fire, while a third began blindly shooting through Ms. Taylor’s window and patio door. Bullets ripped through nearly every room in her apartment, then into two adjoining ones. They sliced through a soap dish, a chair and a table and shattered a sliding-glass door.
Ms. Taylor, struck five times, bled out on the floor.
Breonna Taylor has since become an icon, her silhouette a symbol of police violence and racial injustice. Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris spoke her name during their speeches at the Democratic convention. Oprah Winfrey ceded the cover of her magazine for the first time to feature the young Black woman, and paid for billboards with her image across Louisville. Beyoncé called for the three white officers who opened fire to be criminally charged. N.B.A. stars including LeBron James devoted postgame interviews to keeping her name in the news.
In Louisville, demonstrators have led nightly protests downtown, where most government buildings and many businesses are now boarded up. As outrage mounted, the city fired one of the officers, pushed out the police chief and passed “Breonna’s Law,” banning “no-knock” warrants, which allow the police to burst into people’s homes without warning. Protesters say that is not enough.
Nearly six months after Ms. Taylor’s killing, the story of what happened that night — and what came before and after — remains largely untold. Unlike the death of George Floyd, which was captured on video as a white police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck, Ms. Taylor’s final moments remain in shadow because no such footage exists.
But a clearer picture of Ms. Taylor’s death and life, of the person behind the cause, emerged from dozens of interviews with public officials and people who knew her, as well as a review of over 1,500 pages of police records, including evidence logs, transcripts of jailhouse recordings and surveillance photos. The Louisville Metro Police Department, citing a pending investigation, declined to answer simple questions about the case or make anyone available for interviews.
The daughter of a teenage mother and a man who has been incarcerated since she was a child, Ms. Taylor attended college, trained as an E.M.T. and hoped to become a nurse. But along the way, she developed a yearslong relationship with a twice-convicted drug dealer whose trail led the police to her door that fateful night.
Sloppy surveillance outside her apartment in the hours before the raid failed to detect that Mr. Walker was there, so the officers expected to find an unarmed woman alone. A failure to follow their own rules of engagement and a lack of routine safeguards, like stationing an ambulance outside, compounded the risks that night.
While the department had gotten court approval for a “no-knock” entry to search for evidence of drugs or cash from drug trafficking, the orders were changed before the raid to “knock and announce,” meaning that the police had to identify themselves.
The officers have said that they did; Mr. Walker says he did not hear anything. In interviews with nearly a dozen neighbors, only one person said he heard the officers shout “Police!” a single time.
Sam Aguiar, a lawyer representing Ms. Taylor’s family, blames “catastrophic failures” by the police department for the young woman’s death. “Breonna Taylor,” he said, “gets shot in her own home, with her boyfriend doing what’s as American as apple pie, in defending himself and his woman.”
Ms. Taylor had been focused on her future with Mr. Walker. But her history with 30-year-old Jamarcus Glover, an on-again off-again boyfriend who had spent years in prison, was hard to escape, even after she cut ties with him a month before the raid. When the officers rammed the door of the apartment, Mr. Walker later explained, he fired his gun because he feared it was her ex-boyfriend forcing his way in.
Although Ms. Taylor had no criminal record and was never the target of an inquiry, Mr. Glover’s frequent run-ins with the police entangled her. She had been interviewed in a murder inquiry, and paid or arranged bail for him and his associates.
When Mr. Glover called from jail after an earlier arrest in January, she told him that his brushes with the law worried her, according to a recording; each said “I love you” before hanging up. A GPS tracker the police placed on his car later showed him making regular trips to her apartment complex, and surveillance photos showed her outside a drug house.
In a series of calls hours after her death, as Mr. Glover tried to make bail, he told another woman that he had left about $14,000 with Ms. Taylor. “Bre been having all my money,” he claimed. The same afternoon, he also told an associate he had left money at Ms. Taylor’s home.This has been questioned about his truthfulness in stating this to the other girl and another associate. Could be misdirection or trying to stir shit between the 2 women, or act like all his money is gone now and that why he can't buy diapers for his kid he has with the woman. Who knows what his motive or intent is/was.
Mr. Aguiar, the lawyer for her family, said that no drugs or cash were found at her apartment after the raid. Thomas B. Wine, the Jefferson County prosecutor, countered that the search was called off once the shooting occurred.Allegedly. The cops had no cameras filming the events and there is no footage of video from the search of the apartment.
With three investigations underway, including a federal civil rights inquiry, a full public accounting of the botched raid is not yet possible. A city on the defensive has withheld some of the most basic information about the case, roiling public anger. Even as new details of her ties to the drug dealer have emerged, including the jailhouse recordings first reported by The Louisville Courier Journal, city officials have made a point of not excusing the outcome of the raid. Mayor Greg Fischer said in a statement: “Breonna Taylor’s death was a tragedy. Period.”
Christopher 2X, a longtime community organizer whom Ms. Taylor’s family turned to after her death, said her relationship with Mr. Glover had to be acknowledged. “You can’t just look away from it and act like it’s not there,” he said. “My hope is courageous people will say: ‘There it is — it’s what it is — but was this shooting justified? She should be alive today.’”
The fumbled raid that resulted in the young woman’s death was paradoxically set in motion by an attempt at police reform.
The impetus came in spring 2019, when a video went viral showing a Black teenager being pulled over and handcuffed. He was his high school’s homecoming king. His offense was making a wide turn.
The department would be sued at least three times that year for racial bias by Black motorists. They included the teenager, who had borrowed his mother’s car to get a slushy; a father and his 9-year-old son, who were boxed in by police cars for failing to signal; and a man and his caregiver who were stopped for an obstructed windshield, then told to stand barefoot on the asphalt as the car was searched.
In each instance, the police looked for drugs and found none.
The week that the video of the teenager was uploaded to YouTube coincided with a visit to the department by Robin Engel, the director of the University of Cincinnati Center for Police Research and Policy. Her research helped shape a model of policing credited with cutting violent crime in Cincinnati and Las Vegas.
She recalled that the police chief at the time, Steve Conrad, asked her: How can we do better?
Tensions between the Louisville department and the city’s Black residents had accrued over decades of heavy-handed policing and discriminatory practices. A federal consent decree in the 1980s required the department to hire one Black officer for every two white recruits, with the goal of raising Black representation on the force to 15 percent. Nearly 40 years later, in a city that is almost one-quarter African-American, only 10 percent of the force’s 1,154 officers are Black, according to a spokeswoman.
“The trauma of it, the reality of it, just set in for so many of us that this agency isn’t really built for us,” said Charles Booker, a state representative in Kentucky who is Black.
What Ms. Engel proposed was a departure from traditional practices in Louisville and other cities. Instead of targeting a large area for frequent traffic stops or going after specific criminals who are quickly replaced, focus on micro-locations: a storefront, a parking lot, a city block. The idea was to identify spots conducive to crime and adopt remedies, like cutting tall grass in a neighborhood where felons hide guns, or putting “No Parking” signs along a street where drug dealers idle in cars.
In December 2019, the Louisville Police created its Place-Based Investigations unit, and after analyzing crime statistics, decided to focus on Elliott Avenue, a street of dilapidated and abandoned houses, according to city records.
Nearly every year since 2014, a timeline provided by the city shows that at least one killing occurred there, most of them on the 2400 block. In 2014, a teenage girl was shot multiple times; in 2015, a 49-year-old man was doused in lighter fluid and set on fire; in 2016, a man was fatally shot; in 2018, a homicide victim was found in his home; and in 2019, a bystander died in a shootout, according to city records.
The focus on Elliott Avenue dovetailed with an existing city project to redevelop a swath of the predominantly Black neighborhood with over $30 million in federal grants. Since 2017, the city had been foreclosing on blighted properties to demolish them and make way for new low-income and affordable housing, according to interviews with city officials and the timeline they provided.
Mr. Aguiar, who has brought a wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of Ms. Taylor’s family, has criticized the effort as gentrification run amok — an attempt to deliver a political win for the mayor, causing the police to overreach. But community leaders and residents say they welcomed the investment.
Pointing to a street-side memorial for a shooting victim, the Rev. Paul Stillwell asked, “Are we not allowed to dream?”
By the end of 2019, the city had taken possession of nearly half of the vacant buildings and was working to acquire the rest — among them 2424 Elliott, 2425 Elliott, 2426 Elliott and 2427 Elliott. There, according to court records, Jamarcus Glover and his associates operated a series of “trap houses,” where they stashed crack cocaine, marijuana and prescription pills.
An informant sent inside No. 2424 reported that six men were packaging crack cocaine and passing it to customers through a mail slot in a security door.
On Dec. 30, days after the new squad was started, police executed search warrants at Nos. 2424 and 2426 and a house a few blocks away, seizing eight guns, a surveillance system and 4.9 grams of crack, according to a police log. Mr. Glover was arrested, along with five others, and soon released on bail.
On Jan. 2, Detective Joshua Jaynes of the Place-Based Investigations unit asked for a camera to be installed overlooking the 2400 block of Elliott, according to an internal report he signed. Within an hour, it had captured between 15 and 20 cars briefly stopping in front of No. 2424. “Indicative of narcotics trafficking,” his report says.
At 5:53 p.m., a white Chevrolet Impala pulled up in front of the house, and Mr. Glover exited. The car was registered to Breonna Taylor, the report says.
Over the next two months, the new squad surveilled the Elliott addresses where Mr. Glover operated, and Ms. Taylor’s apartment 10 miles away. A GPS device the police put on Mr. Glover’s car tracked it to her apartment complex six times, according to the internal report. And Ms. Taylor’s new car — a Dodge Charger — was seen at the trap house on multiple occasions; she was photographed in front of it in mid-February.
These details from NYT story have never been said in my local news. I've read she had bought a Dodge charger. But, I had only heard of the one time being spotted in her impala dropping Glover off on Elliot. Not "multiple times in the Charger. But also what constitutes "multiple?"
The evidence collected on the Elliott houses was extensive, according to an application for a warrant to search the premises. And it appears to have been accurate: The same March night as the raid on Ms. Taylor’s apartment, the police struck No. 2424, where they found a table covered in drugs packaged for sale, including a plastic sachet containing cocaine and fentanyl, police logs and a laboratory report show.
But the information the police had compiled to suggest that Ms. Taylor’s apartment was used in the operation was thinner.
State and federal officials are investigating whether detectives had enough evidence to tie Ms. Taylor to Mr. Glover when they sought the warrant to search her apartment. Mr. Aguiar has argued that the police did not have adequate justification for the raid, and both he and the A.C.L.U. have objected to the use of a no-knock warrant.
That type of warrant is typically used in narcotics investigations when the police need the element of surprise to disrupt criminal activity and prohibit suspects from destroying evidence, said Walter P. Signorelli, former head of narcotics at the New York Police Department and author of a book on criminal law. It is also considered high risk; multiple jurisdictions across the country banned such warrants after innocent people were mistakenly killed in raids.
Judge Mary Shaw, who signed the order, said she had “asked needed questions of the officer, reviewed the affidavits prepared for each warrant and subsequently made the probable-cause determination required of me by law.”
The warrant cited five pieces of information establishing what the police said was probable cause: Mr. Glover’s car making repeated trips between the trap house and Ms. Taylor’s homeapparently 6 times over 2 months of investigation; her car’s appearance in front of 2424 Elliott on multiple occasionswhat justifies "multiple?"; surveillance footage of him leaving her apartment with a package in mid-January; a postal inspector’s confirmation that Mr. Glover used her address to receive parcelsthis part has been stated differently from local newspaper and local news channel - they have said a local postmaster or spokesperson for the USPS stated a 3rd party investigative service on behalf of the LMPD had questioned about her mail and it was determined nothing seemed suspicious.; and database searches indicating that as of late February, he listed her apartment as his home address.Well, if last time he had been arrested was in late Dec or early Jan and he used her address when asked or filling out paperwork, then yes, her addy would still be connected to his name. He doesn't have to technically live with her to be using her addy. People use false addys all the time.
But since Ms. Taylor’s death, what has emerged in bank statements, cellphone records, bail paperwork, audio recordings of police interrogations and other documents is a trail of evidence pointing to a complicated liaison between her and Mr. Glover, dating back to 2016.
Mr. Aguiar said in a statement last week that the police department had gone to “great lengths after Breonna died and this case received national scrutiny to dig up all of her past.”
But the lawyer also apologized to the public for having previously understated the extent of her relationship with the drug dealer, saying he had been unaware of the jailhouse recordings.
Court records show that Mr. Glover was convicted of selling cocaine and spent years in prison, starting in 2008 in his home state of Mississippi, where he was handed a 17-year sentence. In 2014, after moving to Kentucky, he was convicted of a second drug offense. He began dating Ms. Taylor in 2016, according to a statement he gave the police.
That December, a favor he asked of her — renting a car and lending it to him — ensnared her in a murder inquiry. A man was found slumped over the wheel, eight bullets riddling his body. Inside the car were three baggies of drugs and Ms. Taylor’s rental contract, court records show.
Mr. Glover told officers he had given the keys to a man he knew as “Rambo,” who said he had to run an errand. The internal police report states that the victim was the brother of an associate of Mr. Glover, who had been arrested alongside the drug dealer numerous times. A suspect in the shooting was charged nearly two months later.
Investigators noted that they believed Ms. Taylor had no knowledge of the killing. But they wondered whether she was involved in Mr. Glover’s drug operation, according to a recording of a detective questioning them.
“Are you all into the game?” the detective, Yolanda Baker, asked the couple at Ms. Taylor’s apartment. When Mr. Glover demurred, she pressed, “So how are you getting all these little fine things you’ve got on?”
In the years that followed, as Mr. Glover was in and out of jail on drug charges, Ms. Taylor paid at least $7,500 in bail for him and an associate in 2017 and 2019, according to bond paperwork.That not much for 2 dudes two separate times. Unless they mean 7500 for both dudes on each occasion, but that would be odd both bails total exactly 7500 AND on two separate occasions.
At the start of this year, Mr. Glover was detained again, held at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections jail. He phoned her, one of 48 jailhouse calls to her cellphone from him and other prisoners in the last four yearsas i've stated in previous comments, i assume, because it a tale as old as time, and i see it with white-trash people i grew up with and work with - that she was just used by Glover because he knew she was clean and probably had good credit too. That why he had a cell phone but it was in her name, and used her addy. One to throw cops off from his real home(if he had one) and two just cause that what small time hustlers do. He a game-player, according to the report. His tone in the Jan. 3 call was demanding. “I was sleeping. I am so sorry,” she responded, according to a recording.
He told her whom to contact to arrange his bail, and added that after he was released, he would “come get me some rest in your bed.”
“When you around, I stress more,” she told him. “Because I just always be worried about you,” she said, “with the police.”
Later that month, Mr. Glover opened a Chase bank account, listing her apartment as his home address. He then made three Zelle transfers to her phone for $150, $200 and then $225.
In recorded jailhouse calls, he complained to a friend that the police saw the transactions as suspicious when they were only meant to reimburse Ms. Taylor for paying his cellphone bill. The police later retrieved an AT&T payment reminder from Mr. Glover’s phone: “Your online bill is ready, BREONNA,” it said.
Hours after the raid and Ms. Taylor’s death, he claimed during a recorded jailhouse call to another girlfriend that Ms. Taylor had been holding thousands of dollars for him. On the call, Kiera Bradley, with whom he has a daughter, asked where to find bail money.
“Bre had, like, eight grand,” he said.
“Bre had eight grand of your money?” Ms. Bradley responded, her voice rising.
“Yeah,” he said. When another man joined the call, he added: “She had the eight I gave her the other day, and she picked up another six.” Later, he said, “Don’t take it wrong, but that Bre been having all my money.”Again, this could be misdirection, or him playing games with his baby momma and whoever the other associate was that was on the call.
His claim could not be verified, though he also told another associate there was money at Ms. Taylor’s home. “It was there, it was there, it was there,” he said in a recorded call that day.
Mr. Glover, who had become a fugitive, was arrested on Thursday in possession of drugs, according to a charging document. He told The Courier Journal that Ms. Taylor had no involvement in the drug trade. “The police are trying to make it out to be my fault and turning the whole community out here, making it look like I brought this to Breonna’s door,” he said.
In the terabytes of call logs, surveillance tapes, database searches and other evidence detailing her connection to Mr. Glover, the Louisville police appeared to miss the new arc that the young woman’s life had taken, an oversight that would have calamitous consequences.
“Breonna was a woman who was figuring everything out in her life, who had turned a corner,” said Mr. Aguiar, the lawyer. “Breonna was starting to live her best life.”
Ms. Taylor was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., to a 16-year-old single mother. Her father, Everett Taylor, has been in prison since she was a child, the lawyer said. He was convicted of murder when she was 6, after shooting a man who had failed to pay for a rock of crack cocaine, court records show.
Family and friends describe the mother and daughter as close. “She was a better version of me,” said her mother, Tamika Palmer, a dialysis technician. “Full of life. Easy to love.”
As a girl, Ms. Taylor was considered by other parents to be the responsible one among their daughters’ friends. She woke them up to get to school on time after sleepovers, practiced mock interviews for an after-school job in ninth grade in Louisville, where her family had moved, and tried to dream big.
“Graduating this year on time is so important to me because I will be the first in my family to accomplish this,” she wrote in her scrapbook during her senior year, next to a photo of herself in a cap and gown. “I want to be the one who finally breaks the cycle of my family’s educational history. I want to be the one to finally make a difference.”
She enrolled at the University of Kentucky and a year later, in 2012, began a banter on Twitter with Mr. Walker, then a student at a university two and a half hours away. He was 20, she was 19. The flirtatious tweets grew into a friendship, and then a romance four years later, according to his account.
“I kept on telling her, I don’t want to be friends no more,” he recalled in an interview. “But I’m a Gemini, and she was also a Gemini. So, you know, some days it was, ‘Yeah let’s, let’s get married and have a kid,’ and another day it’s like, “No, let’s be single and live carefree lives.”
They began dating in the summer of 2016, he said. But a few months later, she started seeing Mr. Glover. For nearly four years — until weeks before her death — she went back and forth between the two men, Mr. Walker told the police.
Her family and friends are effusive about Mr. Walker, a former warehouse worker for Coca-Cola, describing him as “good for her” and “a man who treated her right.” None of them would discuss Mr. Glover.
Her social media posts and Mr. Glover’s, combined with court and police records, suggest he came into her life at a low point: She had dropped out of college and become an E.M.T., but she quit after a year, discouraged by the 16-hour shifts and low pay.
At times, she struggled to afford groceries, she said in one tweet. In another she wrote: “I pray 2018 is a better year for me financially. I mean by the grace of God, I always made sure my bills were covered but it’s been a long struggle & I’m over it.”
Around that time, her younger sister, Juniyah, moved in with her. Ms. Taylor was intent on setting a good example for her and for an infant goddaughter who began spending several nights a week at their home, according to Mr. Aguiar.
“These two beautiful little girls right here are my world,” she wrote in her scrapbook. “They look up to me, so when they’re around it’s almost like I become an entire new person. I know they’re watching my every move, so I make sure I don’t do anything wrong.”
Those who knew her describe her as loving and fun — she adored fast cars and hot sauce. Her friends joked that she would put it on pancakes. “It was the Bre way,” said her cousin Preonia Flakes. “She was ‘extra’ and we loved her.”
She had long been interested in medicine. As a girl, she asked permission to prick her grandmother’s finger to test her insulin level, her mother recalled. At 23, she became a patient care assistant at Frazier Rehabilitation Institute, part of the University of Louisville Health hospital, tending to people recovering from traumatic injuries, said Jessica Jackson, a co-worker who led her orientation.
On her first day, and nearly every day after, Ms. Taylor showed up 20 minutes early, forcing Ms. Jackson — who had been written up for tardiness — to start arriving on time. “She was a go-getter,” Ms. Jackson said.
At home, Ms. Taylor began writing goals on every scrap of paper — junk mail, napkins, envelopes — her mother said. “She would just make these bullet points. ‘I want to have this done by this time,’” she recalled.
And among friends and family, Ms. Taylor became a motivator. She told Ms. Jackson that she wanted to get her nursing degree, and helped her friend, who had already done the coursework, study for the boards.
One day, Ms. Taylor sent her friend a screenshot of a saving system she had seen on Facebook, involving numbered envelopes that guide how much money to set aside each week. In a year, you could save enough for a down payment on a car, Ms. Jackson explained.
In January, Ms. Taylor drove home her brand-new Dodge Charger: sleek and jet-black, with an engine that made a loud growl. “2020 deff gonna be my year WATCH!” she tweeted.
In mid-February, she finally ended her relationship with Mr. Glover and committed to Mr. Walker, her family’s lawyer said. Among her last tweets was a message about setting a good example: “Gotta watch how you let men treat/deal with you especially when you got lil sisters/cousins looking up to ya!!”
The night of the March raid, the plainclothes narcotics officers staking out the young woman’s apartment on Springfield Drive did one last drive-by at about midnight. Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly said that he and Detective Mike Campbell drove along the front of the apartment complex and took note of the blue light emanating from the TV in Ms. Taylor’s bedroom, according to his statement to investigators.
Though they had been assigned to be the “eyes” on the apartment buildings, they had failed to notice that she was not alone when her car pulled in a few hours earlier, according to police statements and court motions.
They did not see Mr. Walker getting out with Ms. Taylor. They missed the couple, returning from their dinner at Texas Roadhouse, entering Apartment 4, the door decorated with vibrant letters: H, O, M and E.
They had the apartment to themselves: Her sister was in California, and her goddaughter was with relatives. Ms. Taylor now worked the overnight shift in the emergency room of University of Louisville Health’s Jewish Hospital East. She was expecting an 11 p.m. phone call, requesting her to come in, Mr. Walker later told police. When the call didn’t come, she baked cookies, they played Uno and then they curled up to watch “Freedom Writers,” in which Hilary Swank plays a teacher in a racially divided district.
“It was more like the movie was watching us than we were watching it,” Mr. Walker recalled.
In a pre-operation briefing before the raid, Sergeant Mattingly was told that she was home alone. “They said they did not believe she had children or animals but they weren’t sure,” he later told investigators. “Said she should be there alone because they knew where their target was,” he said, referring to Mr. Glover. “And I guess they thought he was her only boyfriend or acquaintance.”
Around the same time that the two undercover officers were doing their last drive-by of her apartment, a team of officers was executing three search warrants on Elliott Avenue. Five “no-knock” warrants had been signed by a judge that afternoon seeking evidence of drug trafficking by Mr. Glover and his associates.
In executing the warrants on Elliott Avenue, the police spared no resources: More than 60 officers flooded the street. They included a militarized SWAT unit, multiple lieutenants and sergeants and several ambulance crews, according to the lawsuit filed by Ms. Taylor’s family.
The swarm of officers beat down the doors at 2424, 2425 and 2426 Elliott without incident, recovering large quantities of crack and Fentanyl pills in a bag hidden in a tree, as well as cash, digital scales and guns. They also found signs of attempts to get rid of evidence: cocaine flushed in the toilet, according to police evidence logs and summaries. Mr. Glover and four others were arrested and taken to jail.
By contrast, the crew poised outside Ms. Taylor’s apartment with a battering ram was smaller and less equipped, with eight or 10 officers, according to the conflicting accounts of the police department and the family’s lawyer. They were undercover, not using body cameras, and wearing tactical vests, not the elaborate protective gear worn by the SWAT team. An ambulance on standby outside was told to leave about an hour before the raid, counter to standard practice.
Although the warrant for Ms. Taylor’s house had been approved as a “no-knock,” the officers were instructed at the briefing that they should do a “knock-and-announce” — knock first, then identify themselves as the police and give Ms. Taylor a chance to come to the door — according to Sergeant Mattingly.
A little after 12:35 a.m., the officers lined up in the breezeway. Sergeant Mattingly was closest to the apartment door. Detective Myles Cosgrove was next to him, and farther back were Detective Brett Hankison, Lt. Shawn Hoover and others.
Apartment 4 sits in a complex of two-bedroom units covered in beige vinyl siding. Ms. Taylor’s 950-square-foot apartment was on the ground level, and a floor-to-ceiling sliding-glass door gave way to her patio, which faced the parking lot. Blinds covered the door and the window.
“When we all got up in line, I knocked on the door,” Sergeant Mattingly told investigators. “Our intent was to give her plenty of time to come to the door because we said she was probably there alone,” he said. “Banged. No response. Banged on it again. No response. At that point we started announcing ourself, ‘Police, please come to the door!’”
On the other side of the locked door was a 25- to 30-foot hallway, cutting through the living room, passing her sister’s empty bedroom and ending at the door to Ms. Taylor’s bedroom.
The loud banging jarred her awake. “It scared her to death,” Mr. Walker said in his statement to the investigators. “First thing she said was, ‘Who is it?’ No response,” he recounted. “Another knock at the door. She’s like, ‘Who is it?’ Loud at the top of her lungs. No response.”
They jumped out of bed and rushed to get dressed. In the confusion, Mr. Walker put on his girlfriend’s pants.
The knocking continued. Mr. Walker, a licensed gun owner who said he’d never discharged his weapon outside a firing range, grabbed his 9-millimeter Glock.
They left the bedroom and crept down the hallway toward the front door, which vibrated with each booming knock. “She’s yelling at the top of her lungs and I am, too, at this point, ‘Who is it?’ No answer, no response, no anything,” he said.
Among the officers outside her door were men who had been trained by David James, the city council president. During his 19-year career as a police officer, he had instructed recruits at the local training academy about “dynamic entry.” Especially when executing a warrant at night, he said, he told them to yell “police” at the top of their lungs, specifically so that occupants would not mistake them for an intruder.
“So everyone can hear,” he added. “Neighbors. People down the street.”
By nearly all accounts, that did not happen at Apartment 4.
Almost a dozen neighbors interviewed for this article said that they never heard the police calling out, including Clifford Tudor, who had stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. Only one person, a truck driver coming off his shift, said he heard the officers shouting. Aaron Julue Sarpee had left his 2-year-old in the care of the woman living directly above Ms. Taylor. Before the police lined up, he had run upstairs and picked up his sleeping toddler. He had just stepped out onto the exterior staircase when he saw the officers.I guess the one person saying he heard them announce police ONE time was what out state's AG went with. Because the report he read he stated a person said he heard the officers say "Police."
Before they ordered him to go back inside, Mr. Sarpee said, he heard at least three loud bangs as they knocked on Ms. Taylor’s door, and heard one or more officers scream “Police!” — a single time. He is emphatic that they said it only once.
Mr. Wine, the county prosecutor, said both the police version and Mr. Walker’s account of events could be correct: Through the door, he suggested, the police and the couple inside did not hear each other.
Because Mr. Walker said he did not realize who was at the door, he made a tragic assumption: The apartment was being broken into — and not just by anyone. He thought it was Ms. Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, he later told the police.
“We’ve been on and off together, whatever, for like, seven years,” he said. “So there was a guy that she was messing with, or whatever, throughout that time, you know. And he popped up over there once before while I was there, like, a couple months ago,” he explained. “So that’s what I thought was going on.”
Sergeant Mattingly said that as soon as the door was punched in and he cleared the threshold, he could see to the end of the long hallway. There, in silhouette, he saw a male and a female figure. The man’s hands were stretched out, holding an object.
“As we’re coming to the door, the door, like, comes off the hinges,” Mr. Walker said. “It’s like an explosion.” He went on: They were scared. He thought someone was breaking in. He was trying to protect his girlfriend. “So, boom, one shot. Then all of a sudden there’s a whole lot of shots,” he said. “I just hear her screaming.”
Kentucky law is clear: Under the stand-your-ground statute, citizens can use deadly force against an intruder inside their own home. But like numerous other jurisdictions, Kentucky also has a statute protecting police officers who use deadly force in self-defense.
Sometime between 12:41 and 12:42 a.m. according to call logs, the rights guaranteed by those statutes clashed.
“As soon as the shot hit, I could feel the heat in my leg,” Sergeant Mattingly recounted in his statement. “And so I just returned fire,” he said, adding that he shot at least four rounds immediately, and another two soon after. Behind him, Detective Cosgrove also returned fire into the hallway, according to police statements.
The bullet tore through the sergeant’s thigh, piercing the femoral artery. He scooted out onto the breezeway, then stumbled into the parking lot, where he collapsed, he recalled.All the stories about him being hit in his femoral artery, or him yelling it, have all stated that he was not hit there. Plus pics from the scene have shown what is allegedly Mattingly's wallet- and it has been stated that that is what may of saved him from worse damage. The pics of the wallet show what looks like a bullet puncture and some blood. But doesn't look like the bullet went all way through the wallet. Plus still not clear from all stories if Walker shot through the door. Walker says through the door, but cops stories make it seem like after they breeched the door and could see him standing in front of them(or slightly to the right) Mattingly's story or recollection has varied. Plus, let's think about the bloody wallet and Mattingly saying with certainty he's hit in his femoral. Most people carry a wallet in their back pocket. A money clip or thinline wallet maybe in a front pocket if loose. But this looks like a traditional old school wallet. Now maybe he wore a cargo type pant, he is a cop and on a raid. But most cargo pants have pockets on outside of pantleg. I'm not aware of pants with a pocket that would hold your wallet on the inside of your inner thigh. Plus that seems like it would restrict or hamper movement. I don't know. I've just always found the whole yelling of "I'm hit in my femoral!" as odd.
Meanwhile, a barrage of bullets ripped into the apartment from another direction. Detective Hankison had left the formation near the door, run into the parking lot and begun firing through the covered patio door and window, according to police records.
Unlike the two officers standing in the doorway, the 44-year-old detective probably has no self-defense claim, several local officials said. The bullets he shot from the parking lot tore diagonally through Ms. Taylor’s apartment and into Apartment 3 directly behind it, where a pregnant woman and a 5-year-old were sleeping.First I've read about there was actually kids in another apartment that got shot up by the hail of bullets. I had assumed there had to of been. But never read it till now.
His behavior was reckless, the department concluded, because he shot 10 rounds blindly, and it was not directed against someone who posed an immediate threat. He was fired in June. “I find your conduct to be a shock to the conscience,” the interim police chief said in a termination letter.
In nearly two decades with the department, Detective Hankison had received multiple complaints of excessive use of force as well as sexual misconduct, according to portions of his personnel file obtained by The Times. Most of the complaints appear to have been dismissed or not considered credible.
One record showed he was reprimanded at least three times: for improperly charging a man with having a concealed weapon in 2005; for trying to extract crack cocaine from a suspect’s mouth and failing to call an ambulance; and for causing a car wreck in 2016 that fractured the spine of another officer.
He and the two other officers involved in the shooting could not be reached for comment. Sergeant Mattingly and Detective Cosgrove have been placed on administrative leave, according to a department spokeswoman, Jessie Halladay.
Mr. Walker was charged with attempted murder for shooting Sergeant Mattingly; the charges were later dropped.
Because no ambulance had been staged, the police spent the next critical minutes trying to get medical help for the injured officer.
“I kept going, ‘Where’s E.M.S.?’” said Sergeant Mattingly.
Radio logs paint a scene of chaos. An ambulance rushing to the apartment complex went to the wrong entrance, blocked by a locked gate. On the radio, officers yelled instructions to ram the vehicle through the gate. But the ambulance didn’t get past the crushed metal. Colleagues tried to put Sergeant Mattingly in the back seat of a squad car, but he couldn’t bend his leg. They tried to put him in the trunk, but it was blocked by a gun case. Finally, they laid him atop the trunk.This is actually kind of funny and puzzling. The ambulance was allegedly there but sent away. How can the local EMS not know how to properly enter an apartment complex. From my knowledge of the area it's a one way in one way out off the main road out front. Unless they were trying enter through the hillside in the back that had a neighborhood of homes that may of had a deadend road with a gate. Just puzzling.
As officers outside scrambled to help him, no aid was rendered to Ms. Taylor. It wasn’t until 12:47 a.m. that emergency personnel realized that she was seriously wounded, after her boyfriend called 911.
“I don’t know what’s happening. Someone kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend,” Mr. Walker cried on a recorded call to 911.
When the operator asked if the young woman was alert and able to speak, he said: “No, she’s not,” and then, “Oh my God. Oh my God.”
End of the NYT times article.
I still stand by my assessment that it seems like she just got played by a 2bit small time hustler. Maybe he slang her some good D, or muff dived and curled her toes, he maybe he ate that chocolate starfish in her fat booty. But whatever it was he was apparently a good smooth talker and player. He used her addy to hide his real addy and her credit to get a phone and rental car. Maybe he threw her some money for her troubles and the headaches. Who ever gonna really know?
But I still don't think she sold drugs or even used drugs. Maybe weed at best. But she seemed like a go-getter and a worker- not characteristics of a stoner.
I think only time she had any of his money was when other associates rounded up some to give her to post his or other dude's bonds.
All accounts of the detectives work sounds spotty and they were over-reaching in thinking she was some big-time player in the game.
It seems like they went off just her association with him and the bond posting and him using her addy and picking up ONE package from her place. It's still never been said how big this package was.
Doesn't seem like any detective work went into actually looking into her background, school, work history or anything like that.
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that's odd that this story from a sister station of Wave3 would give more or different details from the report than Wave3 has over past 5-6 months.
Like that story is saying Glover and his associate were on the same warrant as Breonna's. But all other accounts have said Glover and associate were on the others but not one the address for Breonna's apt. Only Breonna was listed on the one for her apt.
this story also mentions the cops collected mail from her apt addressed to Glover from the raid.
But other reports allude to they never gave a full search because of the shooting and death. But also, what exactly kind of mail are they stating. Junk mail? A bank statement or phone bill?
Also this story says glover visited her apt. 6 times in Jan. where other stories all make it seem like 6 times over two months or over course of investigation.
Plus it says never before seen pics and reports show Glover picking up "packages", like plural. Where other reports only make it seem like Glover was spotted only leaving once with a package.
and in that death of dude in rental car from 2016, she gave detectives her phone number and they said it was same number Glover was using as recently as Feb. None of that reported locally in Louisville news stations websites or newspapers. But if she had recently been dating him and dude is a ex convict and in and out of jail, I could see where he probably got no credit or bad credit and sweet talked her or paid her to get him a phone.
I agree with the lady from the Louisville urban Metro League that all the "leaked" reports during the past 5-6 months were to slowly paint her as a bad person and/or a drug dealer and to distort the narrative and try to make it seem like the police had justification for including her in the circle.
It's always the same. When a black person commits a crime, and especially if they kill someone or a cop is shot or injured, the black persons whole life history and record of any and everything bad they ever done will be dug up and smeared across the media. But when a white person commits a crime or shoots someone and especially if a cop involved, the white person will get the benefit of doubt, or they look for every positive story they can find, even if the person has negative stuff on record. Only the good stuff will get blasted across the media. And, if there is any negative or past arrests, especially if drugs involved, it will paint the picture that it's the city or governments fault because they allowed drug dealers to get their poor pitiful white angel addicted to devils poisons.
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The Thug boy friend shot at cops, what do you think will happen? There should have been no charges brought up against the cops.. This was NOT A NO KNOCK WARRANT either.. Cops announced themselves.. The boy friend should have never shot at the cops and Taylor would still be alive today..
Here comes all the violent protesting again from all the BLM unemployed animals in the streets again tonight..
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Louisville, I value your research and your caring, but don't go full mental...
Try to keep a clear head. An unfortunate, tragic occurrence, but a clear head is needed. The response we have seen is way out of bounds and by people who have other motives...or are just really bad a thinking...There are so many tragedies and injustices in the world on a daily basis. There is absolutely no reason tAs Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron explained in his press conference on Wednesday, officers were serving a legal warrant at the right location and they did knock before entering. An independent witness corroborates that they announced and identified themselves. Upon entering the residence, Breonna’s Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, opened fire on the officers. When police returned fire, Breonna Taylor was hit and killed. A warrant had been issued for Taylor’s apartment because there was reason to suspect that Taylor, or at least her apartment, was in some way involved in her criminal ex-boyfriend’s drug enterprise. As court documents show, Taylor’s car was spotted multiple times outside of a known drug house that was under surveillance by law enforcement. Taylor is reportedly on tape referring to the drug house while speaking to her then-boyfriend while he was in jail. In 2016, the body of a murder victim was allegedly found in a car rented by Taylor, which she said she had lent to her boyfriend. Shortly after her death, the ex-boyfriend was again recorded in jailhouse phone conversations claiming that Taylor was “handling [his] money.”
The point is that the warrant was issued for entirely valid reasons. The cops executed it according to the law, following all of the proper protocols, and only opened fire after Walker had begun shooting at them. There is no basis for calling this a “murder,” much less a racist murder by agents of white supremacy. It is a tragic accident, a catastrophic confluence of events. Many other terms could be used to describe it, but the fact remains that officers were serving a lawful warrant, acting within the bounds of the law, and responding with lethal force to the lethal force being used against them.
--Matt Walsh. Daily Wire.he world should stop for thisthis should be a catalyst for so many more. This is a clear tragedy, but debatable on the injustice scale...When you are in the game...
There are sites where you can check-out all the transcripts of phone calls from Glover to Taylor and others. I found them both enlightening and about what I expected..Comment -
There are many reasons cases are settled civically that have nothing to do with wrong doing dumb shits. Public relations, cost of doing business, avoiding discovery such as in the Kapernick case are just several examples.Comment -
Horrible precedent all that money. Think about it. Could cause many more misdeeds.Comment -
So it turns out this woman was balls deep in the drug game and wasn't even an EMT as she was fired over a dead body being found in a car she rented a few years ago.
As usual, the media lied their asses off on this one. I am still seeing articles claiming that she was working in the medical field.Comment -
Maybe if the cops would have done a no-knock raid as they were supposed to, this woman would not have been killed.
But, I am seeing a lot of BLM supporters now arguing over whether or not the cops announced themselves prior to the shooting. The cops claim they did and a witness claims they did, but many others say they didn't hear anything. Of course not hearing anything doesn't mean much considering we don't know how far away these people lived.Comment -
Funny how all these black people are NEVER SAINTS, have criminal records a mile long and are usually tied with drug dealers or thugs, committing crimes and are high on drugs at the time they are shot and killed while resisting arrest always..
BLM!!!!Comment -
Man these NBA players and protesters just cannot get things right
Turning a drug dealer accountant who got fired from her legit job for keeping a dead body in a car she rented into a saint
They made protest signs and put phrases on uniforms for her LOLComment
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