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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLMPD releases disciplinary records for Breonna Taylor cops. Large parts are blacked out
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Tessa Duvall
@TessaDuvall
Five months ago, I requested the complete PIU/PSU investigative files for the three officers who fired their weapons at Breonna Taylor's apartment.
LMPD twice missed their own deadlines in turning it over.
Then late last week, I got... this.
https://courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2020/10/19/breonna-taylor-case-what-louisville-cops-disciplinary-records-say/3677041001/
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Tessa Duvall
@TessaDuvall
Five months ago, I requested the complete PIU/PSU investigative files for the three officers who fired their weapons at Breonna Taylor's apartment.
LMPD twice missed their own deadlines in turning it over.
Then late last week, I got... this.
https://courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2020/10/19/breonna-taylor-case-what-louisville-cops-disciplinary-records-say/3677041001/
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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2020/10/19/breonna-taylor-case-what-louisville-cops-disciplinary-records-say/3677041001/
LOUISVILLE, Ky. After five months and two delays, the Louisville Metro Police Department has released more records into the disciplinary backgrounds of the three officers who fired their weapons at Breonna Taylor's apartment March 13.
But some of the records are so heavily redacted that the incidents they describe are virtually indecipherable.
On May 15, The Courier Journal requested the complete investigative files for any previous internal and criminal investigations concerning Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Myles Cosgrove and now-former Detective Brett Hankison.
The three officers fired 32 rounds the night Taylor died in her apartment during a drug raid that went awry. Six of those rounds hit the unarmed 26-year-old Black woman, killing her in her hallway.
On Thursday, 153 days after the initial request for the three officers' files, The Courier Journal received the records more than 1,600 pages in all.
But more than 150 of those pages were heavily redacted, covered by large black rectangles.
LMPD said the law allows redactions for "the non-disclosure of preliminary records that express opinions and not a final decision."
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LMPD releases disciplinary records for Breonna Taylor cops. Large parts are blacked out (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2020
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JohnQFunk
(409 posts)1. I am...
The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)2. So Actually, Ma'am, They Did Not Release The Records At All
One is reminded of the old jest at how the critic's comment 'If you want great entertainment, the last thing you want to do is go see this movie,' then appears on the theater placard as 'If you want great entertainment ... go see this movie.'
Nevilledog
(51,184 posts)4. Exactly, my dear.
dchill
(38,518 posts)3. This is what passes as an authoritarian joke.
Fascist humor.