jimboston wrote:mrswdk wrote:Well if you want to discuss the real point rather than arguing about semantics: do you think it's acceptable that the police slaughtered this woman in her home or not?mrswdk wrote:Meanwhile in America, plain clothes police burst into the house of an innocent paramedic in the middle of the night and then murdered her after her boyfriend, who had no way of knowing who they even were, attempted to fight them off:Across the country, many people were starting to work from home as the grip of coronavirus quickly spread. But Taylor, a 26-year-old certified EMT, was an essential worker, still going to help at two Louisville hospitals as the city braced for the worst.
On the night that Taylor was killed, the officers were serving a no-knock search warrant in a narcotics investigation. Police have since said the officers knocked and announced themselves before entering.
Lawyers for Taylor’s family and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who was with Taylor that night, say they did not. Walker said he thought he was witnessing a home invasion, prompting him to pick up his gun and fire a shot that hit an officer in the leg after a battering ram plowed through the apartment’s door.
Police responded by firing more than 20 times. Taylor was hit by eight rounds. According to an affidavit filed by Walker’s defense lawyer Rob Eggert: “You could look through one of the bullet holes and see into the next-door apartment.”
Additionally, they said police were searching for a suspect who had already been apprehended.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... g-kentucky
No, it doesn’t strike me as acceptable.
... but I’d like to get all the info
Unfortunately you're never going to get all the info, because the info is held by the police and they are deliberately not sharing it as per this update from Beyonce's ongoing campaign to get #JusticeForBreonna:
Beyoncé was critical of the Louisville Metro Police Department's investigations into the killing of Ms Taylor, which have "created more questions than answers".
She questioned the accuracy of an incident report about the killing released last week by the police department.
In it, Ms Taylor's injuries were listed as "none" yet "we know she was shot at least eight times", Beyoncé wrote.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53050263
So I guess you will have to make your own judgement about the proportionality of the police decision to shoot a startled paramedic numerous times in her own house after they had burst in unannounced in the middle of the night, startling her and her boyfriend. Luckily it looks like you already know which side of the fence you come down on.
