Breonna taylor associated with criminals......and her then boyfriend initiated the shooting in the apartment by firing at the police.....they shot back...
At least now one of the officers was found not guilty..
In reality, though, the entire affair truly did seem to boil down to a tragic mistake. Cops were interested in searching Taylor’s apartment because they suspected she might be in possession of drugs and/or weapons associated with the real subject of their investigation, Jamarcus Glover (Taylor’s former boyfriend and alleged “business partner” in his drug and weapons dealing activities). People engaged in such activities frequently tend to flush evidence when the police arrive and even open fire if they are armed, so a no-knock warrant was granted by a judge.
Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend at the time, can perhaps similarly be forgiven for opening fire on the police if we accept his testimony that he was in fear for his life and thought gang members were breaking into the apartment to rob them. Since his girlfriend remained in semi-regular contact with her former boyfriend who was a known drug dealer and gang member, that was probably a rational fear for him to have.
Once Walker fired at and struck a police officer, all hell broke loose. How Hankison wound up firing some of his rounds through into the next apartment was never made entirely clear, but he would have had no reason to think that the armed response was coming from the home of Etherton and Napper. But the police were under fire from a darkened apartment, so almost anything could have happened at that point. As I said, it was a tragic series of accidents and the jury apparently found that to be true also.
Brett Hankison is the former police officer who was involved in the raid in Louisville, Kentucky tha
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