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Shop NowTwo police officers are in the clear, even though they lied to get the fatal warrant. District Judge Charles Simpson tossed the felony case against two former Louisville officers. It doesn’t matter if they falsified the paperwork which led cops to Breonna Taylor’s door. Her boyfriend was “the legal cause of her death, not a bad warrant.”
Police win dismissal
Without getting into the issue of whether or not two former Louisville Police officers committed any actual wrongdoing, the judge dismissed a felony case against them. They did indeed falsify the arrest warrant which led cops to the door of Breonna Taylor. It doesn’t matter.
Detective Joshua Jaynes and Sargent Kyle Meany didn’t cause her death. Her taste in men did. It was Taylor’s boyfriend, “who fired a shot” at cops serving the bogus warrant who’s responsible. Taylor was hit by return fire.
Federal charges were filed against the police officers and announced personally by Merrick Garland in 2022. The attorney general wanted to get his face on TV “during a high-profile visit to Louisville.”
Louisville detective Joshua Jaynes and Sgt. Kyle Meany were federally charged in 2022 with submitting a false affidavit to search Taylor's home. https://t.co/u2nafQ16S8 pic.twitter.com/FQ116FAvOG
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He declared Jaynes and Meany, “who were not present at the raid,” knew “they had falsified part of the warrant and put Taylor in a dangerous situation by sending armed officers to her apartment.” The judge says, so what?
Whether cops have a valid warrant or not, when they bang on your door in the middle of the night, it is simply not acceptable to shoot in response. You’re supposed to hold your fire while they identify themselves properly. If they don’t, then you can fire.
Simpson’s ruling “declared that the actions of Taylor’s boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid, were the legal cause of her death, not a bad warrant.”
No direct link
As Judge Simpson wrote in a ruling dated Tuesday, August 20, “there is no direct link between the warrantless entry and Taylor’s death.” That virtually destroys the prosecution’s case.
“Simpson’s ruling effectively reduced the civil rights violation charges against Jaynes and Meany, which had carried a maximum sentence of life in prison, to misdemeanors.” Police should be held accountable for their improper actions but this charge doesn’t properly fit the case.
Simpson wasn’t so quick to let the officers off on other charges, which do apply. He declined to dismiss “a conspiracy charge against Jaynes and another charge against Meany, who is accused of making false statements to investigators.” Police had a drug warrant in hand when they broke down Taylor’s door.
UPDATE: A federal judge has dismissed charges against two former officers involved in the raid on Breonna Taylor's home.
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Whether it was bogus or not doesn’t matter. It wouldn’t have mattered if there was no warrant at all. “Kenneth Walker” fired a shot that struck an officer in the leg. He claims he thought he was being robbed.
They had uniforms on and were yelling that they were police. Bandits pretending to be cops don’t have the uniforms, badges, and radios to go with the pretense. “Officers returned fire, striking and killing Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, in her hallway.” If Walker didn’t pull the trigger, it would have all been sorted out sooner or later, with nobody getting shot.
As soon as someone tries to cap a cop, it’s an instant gun battle. “While the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events that ended in Taylor’s death, it also alleges that (Walker) disrupted those events when he decided to open fire” on the police.
