LIVE UPDATES: New details emerge as Breonna Taylor grand jury recordings made public

[brooklynite]

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal

In one clip from the grand jury’s second day of presentation, a detective with the Office of the Attorney General’s Department of Criminal Investigations describes an interview he conducted with Summer Dickerson, who was living near Taylor’s apartment at the time of the shooting.

Dickerson, he said, heard the shooting and called 911. After she hung up with the dispatcher, she recognized an officer on-scene and asks what happened. “Some drug-dealing girl shot at the police,” the officer responded, according to the detective, who says the interaction was captured on Dickerson’s Facebook Live.

Dickerson asks if he’s sure. He confirms and repeats: “Some drug-dealing girl shot an officer.”




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[soothsayer]

1. For one thing, that was the only charge

[LakeArenal]

2. Sadly, trump is stealing the important news.

[stopdiggin]

3. an officer "on scene" has a garbled account.

Really has no implications at all for the actions taken that night, the run-up to it -- OR the story being spun to the grand jury. I sincerely hope that the Courier can (eventually) identify more salient details.

edit: actually, the article does contain information that is more germane -- including knock/no-knock dispute, body-cam "malfunctions", neighbors coming out to witness (prior to entry) and being told to return indoors, and officers on scene reporting receiving fire from a long gun (AR-15) to dispatch. all of these have more bearing on the case than an officer who was mistaken on the shooter.

[Nitram]

5. Perhaps I don't understand your point, stopdiggin, but I think the anecdote is entirely relevant. It

clearly demonstrates that the police had no idea what they were doing and the enormity of the "mistake" they had just made.

[stopdiggin]

7. apparently somebody thought so

To me -- the fact that uniformed LE (not part of the original action) have a somewhat garbled account of what actually transpired -- is really not surprising at all -- and overall a rather minor part of the story, and the information contained in the article.

-- "the police had no idea what they were doing" -- Got that right! Neither before, nor after!

Did the "guy on the street" know, in the immediate aftermath, that they had just killed a completely innocent woman ...? Quite possibly not. And I find no great surprise in that.
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[Nitram]

9. I don't find it at all surprising that the average person on the street knew nothing about what

had just happened. How would they know? The police didn't even know what a collossal cockup it was until later. Then they went into full coverup mode, as always.

[stopdiggin]

10. I think we agree

and by "guy in the street" I actually meant a uniform with no first hand involvement. (probably an ill chosen choice of expression)

-- "The police didn't even know what a collossal cockup it was until later" --
Precisely -- and that's exactly what the uniform's statement to the witness indicated.

[happy feet]

8. I'm with you

'mistake' --- Nah

This is the cavalier attitude of police...they don't care about victims...cocky that they're right and even if not, the other person got what they deserved anyway.

[reACTIONary]

11. Agree. nt

[llashram]

4. there is so much

more going on here surrounding the shooting of ms Taylor than will ever be revealed. It's full CYA mode. And don't forget the gentrification fight that ms. Taylor was trying to stop in her neighbourhood.

[Warpy]

6. That's exactly what's going on

I doubt anyone will investigate who made the complaint against Taylor. I think that would explain a lot about why a panicky cop with an itchy trigger finger was there.

The whole thing stinks worse than Richard Nixon's moldering corpse.