Dependent Media and Govt Mislead: There is No Breonna Taylor Murder Trial. 1 Cop out of the 60 Involved Faces Felony for Endangering Her Neighbors During Unlawful Raid that Led to Her Lawful Execution

Judge Ann Bailey Smith swore in 10 men and five women as jurors and alternates to hear the case. The court declined to release information about their race or ethnicity to protect the system of racism white supremacy.

From [HERE] Nearly two years after Breonna Taylor was killed by police, the only Kentucky officer charged criminally in the botched raid went on trial Wednesday for shooting bullets that penetrated Taylor’s neighbors’ apartment.

Brett Hankison, now a former officer, fired 10 shots, none of which hit the Black woman, but prosecutors said they endangered the couple and child who lived next door. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted of three counts of wanton endangerment. 

Assistant Kentucky Attorney General Barbara Maines Whaley told jurors the case is not about the killing of Taylor, for which the city of Louisville paid a settlement to her family, an amount that won’t bring her back. Nor, she said, is it about police decisions that led to the raid. She said the charges are focused on Hankinson’s decision to fire blindly through Taylor’s apartment, endangering her neighbors.

Before Taylor’s front door was breached, Hankison escalated the situation by yelling at a neighbor to go back inside, she said. And once the shooting started, “He’s shooting in a different direction than the other two detectives,” she said. And once the shooting started, she noted that Hankison was shooting in a different direction than the other officers. [MORE]

The complaint explains that the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) “assembled a huge team quarterbacked by an on-scene, deputy police chief and which also included: more than 70 officers from multiple divisions, units and squads; a fully militarized SWAT unit; multiple lieutenants and sergeants; members of the intelligence and tech unit; multiple radio dispatchers on multiple secured channels; high tech surveillance units, patrol officers and multiple ambulance crews. All of this was in an effort to apprehend individuals who were, at most, low level drug dealers. “

It further states:

The events on scene and Breonna’s death

LMPD’s decision to reassemble a team to hit Springfield, despite having already apprehended JG, was unreasonable, sloppy, unlawful and without probable cause.

Despite this, the Defendants and others jumped at the chance to do so anyways.

Several LMPD members, including the Defendant officers, proceeded to

Springfield. Their intelligence was poor. They did not know who was in the home with Breonna. They did not know that there was not a rear exit to Breonna’s home. They believed that the backside of the building, which is actually apartment 3 (versus apartment 4), was part of Breonna’s home. And, upon information and belief, they thought AW (rather than Kenny Walker) was at Breonna’s home and that potentially DC was there as well. Upon information and belief, they did not confirm whether an ambulance and EMS crew had returned for staging.

Upon arriving at Breonna’s home, LMPD members immediately approached her residence without any adequate planning. At a minimum, the group in the stack included Defendant Mattingly, Defendant Cosgrove, Defendant Hankison, Lieutenant Shawn Hoover, PBI member Mike Campbell, Mike King and Tony James.

Upon information and belief, LMPD members Josh Doerr, Mike Nobles, Randall Richardson and others were also present on scene.

Upon information and belief, there were LMPD members at the scene of Breonna’s home who were equipped with a body camera.

Upon information and belief, LMPD members in the stack arrived at Breonna’s door at around 12:40 a.m. and proceeded to knock several times without once announcing their identity or purpose.

Meanwhile, Breonna woke up from her sleep due to the knocking. She begins shouting “who is it” in response to these 12:40 a.m. knocks at her door.

The LMPD members do not announce themselves or their purpose.

Kenny Walker, who is also in Breonna’s home, begins shouting “who is it” in response to these late hour knocks at the door.

The LMPD members still do not announce themselves or their purpose. Breonna and Kenny become scared. It’s late. There’s no good or safe reason for people to be at the home at this hour. There’s no good or safe reason for those knocking to not say who they are.

Kenny, a licensed firearm carrier, gets his handgun to defend himself and Breonna. While Breonna and Kenny are in the hallway leading to the front of the home, loud bangs sound and the front door begins to come off the hinges, terrifying Breonna and Kenny.

Neither the Defendants nor the other LMPD members who are present have announced themselves. Breonna and Kenny are convinced that the home is being broken into to be burglarized or worse.

Kenny, in an attempt to get the intruders to flee, fires a single warning shot towards the ground.

In response, the Defendants Hankison, Mattingly and Cosgrove proceed to shoot erratically, recklessly, willfully, wantonly and maliciously from inside the home, outside the home, outside a neighbor’s home, outside Breonna’s patio door and outside the window to Breonna’s sister’s room.

Upon information and belief, the Defendants continued to fire into Breonna’s home for a span of multiple minutes.

The Defendants continued to fire when it was clear that deadly force was unjustified. Upon information and belief, by the time all was said and done, LMPD members fired dozens upon dozens of gunshots into Breonna’s home, adjacent homes and adjacent properties.

Breonna, who was unarmed in her hallway, was struck by several rounds of gunfire. She was not killed immediately. Rather, she lived for another five to six minutes before ultimately succumbing to her injuries on the floor of her home.

There were no drugs in Breonna’s home. Breonna had no drugs or alcohol in her system. Breonna never fired a weapon at anyone or posed any threat to anyone.

The Defendants did not have discretion to shoot blindly into Breonna’s home in this manner, especially when there was no imminent threat.

Breonna was unarmed when she was shot repeatedly. Breonna posed no threat to the officers when she was shot repeatedly.

Each of the Defendants acted intentionally, knowingly, unreasonably, maliciously, negligently recklessly, and in bad faith with deliberate indifference to the safety and rights of Breonna. [MORE]