Breonna Taylor: New audio brings detail to conflicting accounts of the killing

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

Newly released audio from the internal investigation into Breonna Taylor's death illustrates conflicting accounts of whether police identified themselves before ultimately breaking down Taylor's door in an incident which led to her death.

The audio, first reported by NBC News and obtained by CNN, includes the Louisville Metro Police Department's interview with Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, on the night of the shooting. It's unclear if Walker had an attorney present during the interview.

Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, was shot eight times after police broke down the door to her apartment while executing a nighttime warrant in a narcotics investigation on March 13.

Walker, who was audibly upset, described multiple knocks and both he and Taylor shouting "who is it" to no response. He said as the couple approached the door, it came "off the hinges" and he fired a shot. When a "lot of shots" were fired, the two dropped to the floor, Walker said, and his gun fell. He "was scared to death," he said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/breonna-taylor-new-audio-brings-detail-to-conflicting-accounts-of-the-killing/ar-BB16yudA?li=BBnb7Kz

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. So, unsurprisingly

the audio proves the police lied about announcing themselves.

The police, like Trump, lie. Reflexively. Like breathing.

[JudyM]

3. I missed that in the article.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. Police claim they ID'd themselves

but all that can be heard in audio (according to the story) is the couple demanding "Who's there?" and banging at the door. At no point do they hear anyone say "Open up, police!", or anything of the sort.

[reACTIONary]

12. There isn't any audio recording ...

.... from the incident. The recording is of an interrogation that occurred after the incident. Its just questions and answered, not evidence from the actual event.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. Ah, thanks for setting me straight

[MuchBetterThanThis]

6. Here. I'll help ya!

"described multiple knocks and both he and Taylor shouting "who is it" to no response. "

[JudyM]

11. That's not in the audio at the scene, that was from the boyfriend's subsequent interview.

[Locrian]

2. they interviewed

the cop NINE days later and Walker immediately...

I don't believe a god damn thing from the lying cops

[Warpy]

4. Beteween the lines

"Seemed like an eternity" and "probably 45 seconds to a minute" and "waited an appropriate length of time" for a response, I see a bunch of jacked up cops waiting a nanosecond and breaking the door down. Terror, panic and shock being what they are, the cops didn't hear a word that was being said to them any more than Taylor or Walker heard anything the cops said, it was all noise and terror.

These middle of the night drug busts might seem like a dandy idea to the cops, but they have turned tragic far too often when addresses are misread or an innocent person has been SWATted.

For the cops, it was legitimate action in their glorious drug war. For Taylor and Walker, it looked like a home invasion by a gang of thugs.

What the cops need to justify is their need to do any of this in the middle of the night. They also need to justify breaking a door in before they've been there for at least 5 minutes, giving people time to don bathrobes and wake the hell up first. If it's a house full of bad guys, they'll just fire through the door, they won't wait for it to be smashed in. If they're dealing drugs, 5 minutes isn't enough to flush all of it.

I've seen one of these things, it wasn't 5 seconds between the knock on the door with the nightstick and the door being smashed in. I was across the street, still awake at that hour (4 AM) and I had a hard time believing it, I can't imagine what my neighbors went through. They were lucky, nobody pulled a gun on the cops so they all lived, including the terrified kids.

[Aristus]

7. ...

For Taylor and Walker, it looked like a home invasion by a gang of thugs.

It was a home invasion by a gang of thugs...

[SKKY]

8. I though Breonna Taylor was asleep in her bed when they broke in...

...This story just gets worse and worse.

[MarcA]

9. War on Drugs

with its no knock or instantaneous knock and invade procedures, misuse of SWAT,
theft of property and resultant deaths will not cease until we have national sane gun laws
and enough of the People stop believing that law enforcement is always in the right,
and American Exceptionalism.

[llashram]

10. I'm not going to let this part of the story

die either
https://www.ajc.com/news/breonna-taylor-warrant-was-part-gentrification-scheme-attorneys-say/gWlfh0zwq84wL0AshqizmM/