I'm going to drop an early disclaimer here before someone inevitably brings it up: I do not give a **** about the races of any of the individuals involved. This case is about police culpability in a tragedy that resulted from their egregious mistakes, and the resultant demonization of their victims in an attempt to circle the wagons.
The Cliff's notes about this case, as I understand them from what I've read, are as follows:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...nfo-emerges-about-police-shooting/2928421001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...know-louisville-emt-killed-police/5189743002/
https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...th-walker-faces-charges-what-know/5183805002/
In my opinion, this should be a landmark case for an organization like the NRA to jump in and champion this guy's second amendment rights, but predictably there has been radio silence.
Of course, the LPD is circling the wagons, demonizing their victims, and shitting on the judge that released the guy on house arrest. I'm generally a firm supporter of law enforcement, and I certainly appreciate the danger they put themselves in every day. However, it becomes really hard for me every time they make a huge mistake like this, someone ends up dead, and then they double and triple down on their mistakes. Trying to pin all of the blame on one person who thought they were defending themselves from a home invasion is just extra shitty.
The Cliff's notes about this case, as I understand them from what I've read, are as follows:
- Louisville police obtain a no-knock warrant in a narcotics investigation
- LPD officers execute the warrant, and they enter the victim's apartment in the early morning hours
- The officers are in plainclothes (read: no body cams) and reportedly do not announce themselves as law enforcement (LPD claims they did, though the family disputes this and witness accounts from neighbors reportedly do not support their claims)
- One occupant (Kenneth Walker) of the apartment, reportedly believing that a home invasion is occuring, fires a single shot at the officers, one of whom is struck but not fatally injured
- Officers return fire, reportedly shooting more than 25 bullets into the apartment, killing Walker's girlfriend (Breonna Taylor, a Louisville EMT with a spotless record)
- Walker surrenders and police arrest and charge him with attempted murder
- No drugs or paraphernalia were found at the apartment
- The subject of the warrant (a man named Jamarcus Glover) did not live at the apartment and had, in fact, already been arrested the day before
- Walker has since been released on house arrest by a Jefferson Circuit judge
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...nfo-emerges-about-police-shooting/2928421001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...know-louisville-emt-killed-police/5189743002/
https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...th-walker-faces-charges-what-know/5183805002/
In my opinion, this should be a landmark case for an organization like the NRA to jump in and champion this guy's second amendment rights, but predictably there has been radio silence.
Of course, the LPD is circling the wagons, demonizing their victims, and shitting on the judge that released the guy on house arrest. I'm generally a firm supporter of law enforcement, and I certainly appreciate the danger they put themselves in every day. However, it becomes really hard for me every time they make a huge mistake like this, someone ends up dead, and then they double and triple down on their mistakes. Trying to pin all of the blame on one person who thought they were defending themselves from a home invasion is just extra shitty.
