Cop involved in Breonna Taylor's killing sends self-pitying screed against 'thug' protesters ahead..

[Mike 03]

Cop involved in Breonna Taylor’s killing sends self-pitying screed against ‘thug’ protesters ahead of grand jury announcement
RawStory
Published 1 min ago on September 22, 2020
By Travis Gettys

One of the police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor sent a “rambling” email denouncing protesters as “thugs” while awaiting a grand jury announcement on possible charges.

Louisville Metro Police Sgt. Jon Mattingly confirmed that he sent the email to colleagues early Tuesday, as the department declared a state of emergency ahead of Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron’s announcement of the grand jury’s decision, reported WAVE-TV.

“You DO NOT DESERVE to be in this position,” Mattingly told fellow officers, in emails first flagged by Vice reporter Roberto Ferdman. “The position that allows thugs to get in your face and yell, curse and degrade you. Throw bricks, bottles and urine on you and expect you to do nothing. It goes against EVERYTHING we were all taught in the academy.”

Mattingly blasted the city’s mayor, chief of public safety and chief of police, whom he complained had not sufficiently supported him and two other officers — Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison — involved in Taylor’s killing inside her own apartment.

“The position that if you make a mistake during one of the most stressful times in your career, the department and FBI (who aren’t cops and would piss their pants if they had to hold the line) go after you for civil rights violations,” Mattingly complained. “Your civil rights mean nothing, but the criminal has total autonomy.”

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TEXT: New: LMPD Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly (who is being investigated as part of Breonna Taylor’s case) sent an email to around 1,000 officers at 2am that calls protestors thugs, complains about the government enforcing civil rights violations, and claims this is "good versus evil”

I hope they throw the book at this as*hole.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Civil rights to this tool means he gets to whatever he wants on the job.

[Statistical]

2. He said they did "the legal, moral, and ethical thing that night"

For fuck sake this guy is a monster. You gunned down an unarmed women in her bed. To me that is murder but giving the most extreme benefit of this doubt any non-sociopath would at least say "we made a terrible mistake that night" while trying to still justify it as unavoidable or some such BS. Nope not for this piece of shit. They did everything right. Unarmed black people asleep in their beds deserved to get gunned down in a hail of bullets.

[stillcool]

3. "the criminal has total autonomy"..

except there is no criminal. Just him. It's way too long since this happened, for him to still be of the same mind-set. No therapy? The guy murders an innocent woman, and can't get past the 'criminal'. He needs help. Yesterday.

[Gothmog]

4. This idiot needs to be fired and prosecuted

[DFW]

5. "but the criminal has total autonomy?"

Except that Breonna Taylor was not a criminal, had no autonomy, had no rights at all except to become the object of trigger-happy police target practice.

I wonder if it ever occurred to this guy that the only criminals here are the ones that shot her.

[Solly Mack]

6. Poor me. So misunderstood and mistreated. So put upon.

Blah, blah, blah. Woe, is me.

Snort.

[Baclava]

7. A late night, no knock raid, firing blindly through the window, isnt that how it went down?

If he was doing the shooting he might be headed behind bars himself, no wonder he peeing his pants

[Aristus]

8. So, protestors are 'thugs', but cops who murder innocent people in their beds are not?

Got it...

[2naSalit]

9. Asshole has no business wearing a badge.

He should have been rejected in the academy.