Domspeak Forums Discussions Off Topic & Politics Officer in Breonna Taylor's Death-Life in Prison

He was found guilty of excessive force. As most of us know by now, the raid was botched the officer was incompetent. He accidentally shot the neighbor's house. He should have been charged with a serious crime and sentenced to jail time. But, life in prison for being an idiot and botching a raid that his superiors had signed off on? I don't know about that. No knock warrants, unless there are extremely unusual circumstances, should have never been in place. It caused Breonna's boyfriend to react as if someone was breaking into their home. Who wouldn't react that way? Mixed feelings on this one for me. What are your thoughts?

No knock warrants were limited in Kentucky. Rand Paul introduced it as a federal bill but it didn't pass. Personally, I think the cop who behaved like a violent Barnie Fife should spend the rest of his life in prison. The judge who signed it should be held accountable too. Taylor wasn't blameless in why she was being raided. But that doesn't mean how the raid was handled didn't turn into flat out homicide.

People want to deny the racial aspect. The history of every law enforcement and judge should be investigated and compared to the number of white people who were the victims of similar crimes. Rule it in or rule it out. If it is found that race played a part, the discussion of a hate crime needs to be raised.

What would lead you to believe that racism was involved? Should every crime be investigated for prejudice of skin color?

More black people are killed by police officers than white. It is plausible that racial profiling could have played a part here. In my humble opinion, it merits an investigation for all who touched this from beginning to end.

"More black people are killed by police officers than white people"

Dont worry because if Harris gets in she will make sure that more White people get killed by police officers than blacks..

She will straighten that shit out right away...If it makes you feel a little better..

In fact she might just have the DOJ/IRS confiscate all the White peoples homes and give them to Black people or Illegals..

Its about time somebody forced us to share our wealth and pay for Slave Reparations....Dont you think so?

For the record:

Harris/Biden are off to a good start..

Out of all the Jan 6th political prisoners ILLEGALLY being held for years 93% are White.....About 5% are Hispanic and only about 1.4% are Black...

Not too shabby..

That’s not true. In raw numbers more white peoples are killed by police by year. The numbers have been consistent.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

Don't get me wrong. I do not believe that any race should be shown favoritism or given hand outs because of it. I'm only pointing out that, by percentage, more blacks than whites have fatal altercations with police officers. If there was an investigation that proved this not to be the case, wouldn't that be a good thing?

I should have clarified by percentage according to population. Sorry about that.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings-rate-ethnicity-us/

Link Bad. This link should work:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings-rate-ethnicity-us/

As to the topic, I don't think race plays a part in this case.
As to more blacks being killed, it is likely because more blacks commit crimes on a percentage basis.

That is a good point. Yet, consider that black crime statistics are driven up by isolated big cities. I left the Chicago area, in part, because of it. In Louisville, whites out number blacks considerably. I don't tout that every case like this is about race. I only say that it merits looking into. The lead cop and the judge who signed off on the late night no knock should be looked into for race discrepancy. What would it hurt to do that? It could be ruled out if that is not the case.

I don't even know if the judge knew the race.
The appropriateness of the warrant and the actions taken should be judged and prosecuted independent of the racial mixture.
Reactions may be influenced by an individual's feelings toward a differing race, but that does not necessarily indicate a crime is a hate crime.

Good point.

I've got to agree with the other posters, there was no indication that this was about race. Even Breonna Taylor's mother complained that BLM was exploiting her daughter's death. I believe strongly that everyone from beginning to end, as you say, should be investigated...but not racial discrimination...for incompetency in how this was handled. There was every reason to search her apartment. But, it didn't have to be done like that. They could have caught her as she was leaving for work and, calmly, presented her with a warrant. White, black or any other race, the person who is the subject of a search warrant should be treated with respect.