Getting Shot to Death by White Cops While You Sleep May Not Be a Big Deal to a Sleeping Tom. On May 13th Attorney General Daniel Cameron was named as a Special Prosecutor in the investigation into the death of Louisville EMT Breonna Taylor. The Republican was appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear Wednesday after calls for investigations continue to grow in Kentucky and nationwide. Cameron is the first Republican elected to the office since 1944 and is the first African-American Attorney General of Kentucky. He is a “sleeping tom.” One of the first major things he did was call for halting abortions in Kentucky during the coronavirus pandemic, arguing it was an elective medical procedure that should fall under the statewide ban for the duration of the pandemic. [MORE]

No charges have been filed yet against the white cops: Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Brett Hankison, and Detective Myles Cosgrove who murdered Breonna Taylor on March 13, 2020. Cameron does not appear to be in any rush. In an interview Friday with WDRB News, the black probot said he has begun to review the information he has received from the LMPD Public Integrity Unit. “What I've told people and continue to tell them today is that my job is to apply the law fairly and be a fair arbiter of justice here in the commonwealth and to be a fair arbiter of the truth,” he said. Cameron said he does not have a timeline for completing the investigation but promised to work “as quickly as we can.”

Cameron said he has not personally experienced the kind of racism the demonstrators are marching against. [MORE]

According to the wrongful death complaint filed on behalf of Taylor:

At 12:30 am on March 13, 2020 both Breonna Taylor and Kenneth Walker were asleep in their bedroom. While Breonna and Kenneth were sleeping peacefully, the three Defendants arrived in their neighborhood in plain clothes in unmarked vehicles. These defendants were working within the criminal interdiction unit of the Louisville Metro Police Department.

The Defendants had a knock and announce search warrant for Breonna’s apartment, where the officers were searching for Jamarcus Glover who lived in a different part of Louisville. LMPD was successful in locating Glover at his home, detaining him, executing a search, identifying drugs and firearms, and arresting Glover.

Glover was located and identified by LMPD prior to the warrant being executed at home. Despite this, the Defendants elected to proceed with executing the warrant at home.

As confirmed by multiple neighbors, the Defendant officers did not knock or identify themselves prior to entering Breonna’s home.

Knocking and announcing is critical for a warrant of this nature to be executed safely. Reasons include but are not limited to the following:

1. The officers were in plain clothes;

2. It was 12:40 in the morning;

3. The home was part of a large unit of connected homes containing children;

4. There was nothing to indicate that Breonna Taylor and Kenneth would flee or

   pose an unreasonable danger if the officers knocked and identified themselves

   as police; and

5. Individuals, under several circumstances, have a lawful right to use deadly force

   in order to defend against those who enter their home.

The Defendant officers breached the front door and entered the home without knocking and without announcing themselves.

Breonna and Kenneth were awakened by the Defendants’ unannounced entry into their home. They believed that their home had been broken into by criminals and that they were in significant, imminent danger.

Kenneth proceeded to call 911.

The Defendant officers fired their weapons into Breonna’s home repeatedly. The Defendants fired several shots into the home from outside on the patio.

The living room was obscured by curtains; the officers could not see anything inside the home (past the curtains) within their line of fire when shooting into the home through the glass. The Defendants fired several shots into the home from outside of the second bedroom window. The second bedroom window was obscured by a screen and blinds; there was no way that the officers could have had a reasonable line of sight when firing into the home from outside this window.

The Defendants did not have discretion to shoot blindly into Breonna’s home in this manner. The Defendants’ gunshots struck objects in the home’s living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, hallway and both bedrooms.

Several of the Defendants’ gunshots traveled into the adjacent home, where a five- year-old child and pregnant mother were located.

Breonna was shot several times by the Defendants. Breonna was unarmed when she was shot repeatedly. Breonna posed no threat to the officers when she was shot repeatedly.

The Defendant officers acted intentionally, knowingly, unreasonably, maliciously, negligently, recklessly, and in bad faith with deliberate indifference to the safety and rights of Breonna Taylor when they attempted to execute a warrant without the SWAT unit, proceeded with executing the warrant without probable cause, entered the home unannounced, entered the home without permission, entered the home without complying with the terms of the warrant, engaged in erratic gunfire and fired at Breonna, who was unarmed and posed no threat, in an intentional, erratic and deadly manner. These actions were objectively unreasonable.

The officers failed to use any sound reasonable judgment whatsoever when firing more than 25 blind shots into multiple homes and causing the wrongful death of Breonna.

The Defendants had absolute, certain and imperative duties to knock, announce their presence, give Breonna and Kenneth notice that they were peace officers there to serve a warrant, offer to show Breonna and Kenneth the warrant and afford the opportunity to be let into the home.

Breonna had committed no crime, posed no immediate threat to the safety of the Defendants, and did not actively resist or attempt to evade arrest prior to being repeatedly shot and killed by the Defendants.

The actions of the Defendant officers were made in bad faith, were performed with a corrupt motive, were outside the scope of the Defendants’ authority, were executed willfully and with the intent to harm, and were in violation of Breonna’s constitutional and statutory rights.

The Defendants knew or reasonably should have known that the actions taken would violate Breonna’s rights.

The Defendants’ actions were made with the malicious intention to cause a deprivation of Breonna’s constitutional rights. The Defendants unlawfully and forcibly entered Breonna’s home, causing Breonna and Kenneth to have a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm.

Any defensive force used against the Defendants was due to their forcible and unlawful entry into Breonna’s home. Breonna and Kenneth knew, or had reason to believe, that an unlawful and forcible entry was occurring or had occurred at the time of any defensive force. The Defendants, under the facts which were present at the time of their entry into Breonna’s home, had no lawful right to be in the home.

The Defendants did not identify themselves prior to or upon entry into the home, and neither Breonna nor Kenneth knew or reasonably should have known, prior to any use of defensive force, that the individuals in their home were peace officers.

The use of force on Breonna Taylor by the Defendants was unreasonable, excessive, and in violation of clearly established law prohibiting assault, battery, gross negligence. 77. As a direct and proximate result of the conduct of Defendants, Breonna Taylor suffered physical injury and emotional trauma when she was shot multiple times and then left to die.
Other than a couple of speeding tickets, Breonna had no criminal history. She was and posed no threat to the community. Breonna had no drugs in her home.