re: Kenneth Walker WAS NOT a drug dealer

Lye with snakes die with snakes.

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ool, man

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I mean there are over 7 billion people on the planet who didn’t hear them announce themselves. It is not an exclusive group of people.

1. No-Knock and Forced-Entry warrants are a travesty. While there are certainly rare instances in which they may be justified, they should be used like the strongest spices in the pantry. The tiniest pinch is usually quite enough. THIS warrant in THIS case is like using an entire saffron plant in one small pan of paella.

2. Judges who GRANT such searches outside the NARROWEST parameters are as big a problem as anyone else in the system. They are so terrified that they will be pilloried, if an officer is harmed in "standard" service of a warrant, that they forget the significant harm associated with the enhanced warrants. The facts set forth in THIS affidavit should NOT have supported an enhanced warrant of the Taylor residence. Voters SHOULD remember that at the next judicial election.

3. Cops who willfully perjure themselves in order to OBTAIN an enhanced warrant should be treated as criminals. This cop received some minor discipline (re-assignment, as I recall). He should have been dismissed from his employment and prosecuted to the extent of the perjury laws of his State.

4. Not everyone (and not every Black) killed by the cops was killed by racism. Breonna Taylor was not targeted due to racism. She was targeted because she had previously dated a drug dealer, albeit a damned low-level one. But her role (if any) in his scheme was too minor to justify any sort of enhanced warrant. Search her house in due course and in the light of day.

5. I am willing to assume that the cops on-scene at the Taylor residence DID NOT have knowledge of the fraud used to obtain the warrant they were executing. As such, they were acting within the bounds of the authority granted to them by the warrant when they entered the residence. Nonetheless, it seems clear that they did not "announce themselves" very loudly, if they did so at all. With all their shiny tactical gear, do they not have a bullhorn?

6. An American has the right to defend himself in the case of a forcible, violent invasion of a residence. Walker did NOTHING wrong in this case.

7. I honestly do not fault the police for returning fire at Walker. As I said, they PROBABLY thought they were acting under a completely lawful warrant. But (to say the least) they seem to have lacked fire discipline and made poor choices of ammunition, as a number of rounds seem to have found their way into at least one neighboring apartment. Would not low-penetration rounds have made more sense, in the confines of an apartment complex? Was there ANY excuse for firing blindly through a window, when completely surrounded by innocent families?

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AggieHank86

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You posted that manifesto but clown me when I suggested cops do the raids where cash is suspected in order to pilfer it for themselves.

Cops wouldn’t do nearly as many of these raids if they didn’t get a cut of the loot. Wake up.

I don’t think it will go unchallenged. I made a pretty mild statement. If I’m a cop in that position, I want everyone in the damned apartment building to know that I’m saying I’m the police.

Not one guy who stepped outside.

You can question the veracity of the other witnesses. That’s legitimate. I think my point is legitimate as well. It doesn’t mean the police are criminally liable. Just maybe something that could’ve been done better.

The assumption that she was home alone is really what drove a couple of bad decisions.

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Good post with this glaring exception

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Thanks, I think.

I admit that I am not nearly the firearm aficionado that many of you are. I have fewer than a dozen firearms, most of which I have owned for decades. I kill things to eat. I do not play with my weapons like kid constantly adding newer and better gizmos. I have a box or two of ammo for each weapon, rather than cargo containers full of enough ammo to get me thru a zombie apocalypse. So educate me about low-penetration rounds.

My understanding is that low-penetration rounds are designed to expend the vast majority of their kinetic energy upon impact, rather than passing thru a target with the majority of their kinetic energy potential still in place.

Again, my understanding is that they hit a wall (or a person) and basically largely-disintegrate, transferring the VAST majority of their kinetic energy to the very first thing they hit and lessening the likelihood of damage, injury or death to anything that some bit of remaining shrapnel might hit subsequently.

I keep hollow points in my Beretta 92, because I have been told that this round is basically a low-tech version of a low-penetration round ... that it will make a bigger hole in the bad guy and be less-likely to kill someone in the next room.

Is this not basically-accurate? If so, are they not a far-superior choice in an urban setting where there exists a likelihood of collateral damage? (Yes, I do understand that they ARE probably more deadly to the FIRST target. By expending all of their kinetic energy, they make a BIG damned hole, rather than a small one.)

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Not everyone (and not every Black) killed by the cops was killed by racism. Breonna Taylor was not targeted due to racism. She was targeted because she had previously dated a drug dealer, albeit a damned low-level one. But her role (if any) in his scheme was too minor to justify any sort of enhanced warrant. Search her house in due course and in the light of day.

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Wasn't it because her ex-bf was using her address?

Officers testified that they didn’t announce at first. 3 knocks before they announced.

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You either want truth and accuracy, or you don’t.

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They don't.