Breonna Taylor Louisville KY death – dead, obituary, funeral: Breonna Taylor & her boyfriend Kenneth Walker, were asleep on March 13 2020 when Louisville police allegedly stormed into her home.
Walker fired at the officers and 3 officers allegedly responded with a hail of bullets.
26-year-old Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Breonna Taylor died after she was hit eight times. 27 year old Kenneth Walker was charged with attempted murder.
Kenneth Walker was arrested and charged with attempted homicide on accusations he shot one of the police officers during the raid.
But his attorney Rob Eggert told local news station WDBR that Walker was acting in self-defense and said Taylor’s death was the result of “police misconduct.”
Walker has pleaded not guilty to the charges because he said police did not announce themselves.
His lawyer wrote to the court that Walker “wishes to exonerate himself. His girlfriend was killed in a hail of police bullets while naked and he himself simply acted to try to protect himself.”
Breonna Taylor Louisville KY death – dead, obituary, funeral:
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Walker’s attorney Rob Eggert told the Courier Journal:
“Had Mr. Walker known that police were outside he would have opened the door and ushered them in.”
Rob Eggert added that no drugs were found and that the home belonged to Taylor and Walker wasn’t even the target of the police’s search warrant.
Sam Aguiar, a lawyer for Taylor’s family, told WDRB that it was a case of misidentification and that he believed officers were looking for someone else connected to a different raid.
“Something went terribly wrong. This was clearly a botched execution of a warrant.”
Read below an open letter on Modern-Day Lynchings #SayHerName by BWOP Chicago (Black Women Organizing for Power).
BWOP (Black Women Organizing for Power) Chicago is an up-and-coming political advocacy group dedicated to strategic organizing for policies that contribute to the collective uplift of black communities in the City of Chicago and throughout the state of Illinois.
We are currently in the midst of our Black Community COVID-19 Response Policy Campaign, but we felt compelled to shift gears for a moment to respond to recent tragic events.
We have just recently issued an Open Letter condemning the lynchings of Ahmaud Arbery and Dreasjon Reed, and we feel compelled to speak out once again to condemn the lynching of a black woman.
Breonna Taylor of Louisville, Kentucky was murdered on March 13, 2020 by Louisville Metro police officers when they fired at least 22 shots into her home while she and her boyfriend were sleeping.
This is yet another example of the state-sanctioned extrajudicial murder of black folks by white supremacist individuals and institutions.
As we noted in our previous open letter, the term “modern-day lynchings” is almost a misnomer, as this country has never stopped enacting and sanctioning murderous violence on black folks, and black women have never been excluded from this national horror. We are disturbed that we are only just now hearing about this tragedy, but we are committed to mobilize and speak truth to power NOW.
We want to express our deepest sympathies to the family of Breonna Taylor whose life was cut short in this brutal execution.
We lift you up in prayer and we collectively mourn with you, though we know we will never truly feel the depths of your pain. We call on our elected officials and any individual devoted to justice to channel your mournful rage into righteous, productive anger.
To our elected officials here in Chicago: (We are an advocacy group based in Chicago)
We call on Governor J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Elected members of the Chicago City Council, and elected members of the IL General Assembly to do the following:
- Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot: Release an official statement via press conference publicly condemn this modern-day lynching and calling on your colleagues in Louisville, Kentucky (Governor Steve Beshear and Mayor Greg Fischer) to take immediate actions:
- publicly condemn this murder, launch an independent investigation, immediately arrest all those involved in this extrajudicial murder, and fire all public officials that failed to respond appropriately.
- Additionally, resolve to seek justice for the black folks who have lost their lives in extrajudicial killings right here in Chicago.
- Aldermen/State representatives/State senators: Release official statements or hold virtual press conferences publicly condemning this modern-day lynching and call on your respective elected leaders to take the above outlined steps.
- To everyday citizens across the country:
We call on everyone reading this to do the following:- Contact Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and Thomas Wine, Commonwealth’s Attorney, to demand that the murderers be fired, arrested, and charged, and an investigation independent of the Louisville Metro Police Department be launched.
- Mayor’s Office (505) 574-2003
- Commonwealth’s Attorney (502) 595-2300; JCooke@louisvilleprosecutor.com
- Call for the murderers Sergeant John Mattingly, Detective Brett Hankison, and Detective Myles Cosgrove, who were merely placed on administrative leave to be fired immediately, arrested, and charged with Breonna’s murder by contacting the Louisville Metro Police Department.
- Chief Steve Conrad (502) 574-7660
- Demand that the Kentucky Governor order the Kentucky Attorney General launch an investigation into these murders and charge the officers who carried out this crime.
Contact Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear at (502) 564-2611- Contact Attorney General Daniel Cameron at (502) 696-5300 and attorney.general@ag.ky.gov.
BWOP Chicago
bwopchicagochair@gmail.com
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Modern day lynching. It will not stop until we stop it!
So sad such a beautiful soul is lost to violence.
It is an outrage for the police to break into someone’s house while they are fast asleep and do not announce themselves. If people buy guns to protect themselves from outsiders, them why would someone break in their house to attacked them deliberately? Have the police gotten so laxed that they cannot read their exact house that they are breaking into before they choose the wrong house and the wrong person to attacked? Is there no 2nd look up or checkpoint or something to make sure that they are at the right facility or house? What’s wrong that multiple police show up for an arrest this invalid?
This killing of Black men and women goes back decades. This is 2020 where is the End to this. Until the ones in uniforms and those who chose for decades to not attempt to charge the crime to Lock them up just like the Law supposed to be for Every one. We all see and can agree it will never Stop. I Grew up in the White only posting. That said a message i am not equal to you. That posting was taken down but its very alive in the mines of so many many who runs the System. They have the power over people they don’t like. And our pass History if a White spoke up they were killed also. I Feel so bad for those Families and Pray they fine some kind of PEACE.
I have never seen such a scampi article with hardly any details to give the reader the relevant, non-biased information they need to know. I fully admit I don’t know ANYTHING about the case, so when I try to look it up, I want an informative source, which makes me wonder why this article was #1 on Google’s listing.
What was the name of the allegedly wounded officer? What do they have to say?
What about those cameras in the uniforms of the police people always rave about that should allow us to know who shot first?
Was the supposed suspect that was mentioned in the beginning really already arrested, and if so, why weren’t the officers who stormed the building informed?
Did the shooting happen right away or was there a short period of time between the police coming through the door and the first shot being fired?
If it happened right away, is there any information about the boyfriend we don’t know, maybe like having a history of being extremely dangerous, that would have the police superiors give permission to shoot on sight?
If there was a short period of time, which suggests the typical arresting routing of asking the suspect(s) to slowly get on the ground, etc. why didn’t Breonna and her boyfriend both cooperate? I mean, if they did cooperate 100%, the entire group of officers would have to be a special level of stupid to willfully put themselves in a situation that they HAVE to know by now would result in them being crucified if anything went sideways.
For a group of people who HATE being judged prematurely, you’re all pretty good at doing it yourselves!