Tuesday 14 March 2023

My Humble Thoughts On the Louisville Breonna Taylor Episode

 Eleven thoughts.

1.  Oddly, before any of this police action on 13 March 2020 (where she died)....Taylor and a guy with a last name of Glover.....rented a car in December of 2016.  They 'loaned' the car to a guy named Fernandez Bowman....who was found shot eight times.....in the car.  

Nothing much over the Bowman-dead story has ever been discussed.  Police did examine the car and just note that it was a rental....which ties Taylor and Glover to it. 

For most people....if you ever rented a car, you probably wouldn't loan it to someone. Added to this....you might be in for problems as you handed it back to the rental company....with shot-holes in it.

Whoever shot the guy....unloaded the whole clip into him.  It was personal.  

2.  In this period of 2016 to 2020....just a fair amount of stories where Glover has money coming in and Taylor is part of some handling of the money.  Just about everything says 'drug's when you figure how the money moves.

3.  Local cops are continually focused on Glover and a second guy (Walker) for this whole period. 2017 goes by.....2018 goes by....2019 goes by.  Just aa lot of watching.

4.  Local cops get a 'no-knock' search warrant for early 2020....for a residence that Taylor resides at.  Why?  They seem to believe that the drugs arrive there and get dispersed out to Glover/Walker.  

Here's the odd thing....the cops say that postal authorities are involved and reviewing packages that are delivered there.  After the screwed-up raid....the postal authorities are dragged up to a judge and say 'no'....they never saw such packages.  It would appear someone simply make up a lie...to cover the request for the raid.  

5.  There's about ten different ways of looking how they raided the apartment on 13 March 2020.  He said....she said situation.

Taylor's new BF (at this point) says he and Taylor both thought this was a criminal gang breaking into the apartment.  

The warning shot fired (either by Taylor or the BF)?  This is up for discussion.  The BF said he fired it originally....later saying it was Taylor.

The one cop hit?  There's a fair amount of discussion....that this warning shot fired....didn't hit him, and maybe a round from the other police instead....was the cause of the wound.

6.  How many rounds did the cops fire?  Well....32 rounds.  Yeah, it was a pretty fierce gun-battle on their part.  Taylor was hit by a minimum of five of them (maybe even six).

7.  Here's the odd thing....after all these rounds fired and the excitement of the moment.....there's zero evidence that the search warrant was ever presented (to either Taylor or the BF).  Oddly, there's not a complete search of the apartment for drugs, money or whatever....afterwards.

8. Oddly, about 7 months would pass, and this 'friend' of Glover was found dead (Walker, 19 Nov 2020).  All cops say....he's found shot dead....end of the story.  

9.  Was Breonna hanging out with the wrong crowd?  That part isn't really disputable.  If she'd just been dating....it was marginally bad.  But the part where the rental car was part of some associate's death....just makes her friendships suspect.  

10.  Was the no-knock raid crapped-up?  Yeah.  There's a dozen smarter ways this could have been handled....even serving the search warrant while they were out of the residence.  

11.  Excessive shooting?  You can discuss this a good bit.  I'm more shocked that only one cop was wounded in this mess.  

So to the final note, on wrongful death dynamics....on a scale of one to ten....it's a solid ten.  Just a lot of errors that kept piling up and no one suggesting better ways of doing things. 

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