2 Louisville police officers fired for roles in Breonna Taylor shooting

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Source: ABC News

Two Louisville police officers have been fired from the department for their roles in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor...Initially one officer, Brett Hankison, was fired, and no charges were brought against the officers, igniting protests across the country...Det. Joshua Jaynes...who prepared the search warrant...(and) officer Myles Cosgrove...who fired the shot that killed Taylor per a ballistics analysis...received pre-termination letters last week. The(ir) terminations...were made official...in letters from interim Police Chief Yvette Gentry, who held closed-door hearings with the officers and their attorneys...

Jaynes wasn't at the shooting but prepared the search warrant for Taylor's apartment. In Gentry's termination letter to Jaynes, she said he violated the Standard Operating Procedure for truthfulness. She accused him of being untruthful in the search warrant affidavit when he said he verified through a U.S. postal inspector that Taylor's ex-boyfriend had been receiving packages at Taylor's address.

"You did not have contact with a US Postal Inspector. You did not 'verify' this statement you swore to in the affidavit," Gentry wrote. "I acknowledge that you believe you prepared the search warrant in good faith. However, you failed to inform the judge that you had no contact with the US Postal Inspector. Your sworn information was not only inaccurate; it was not truthful."

...Gentry (wrote that) Cosgrove violated use of deadly force procedure when he fired 16 rounds into Taylor's apartment. Two rounds hit Taylor, one of which was fatal...(H)e "did not describe target/threat isolation or target/threat identification but instead you describe flashes that you did not properly evaluate as a threat." Cosgrove's shots went in three different directions "indicating you did not verify a threat or have a target acquisition," she wrote...

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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/louisville-police-officers-fired-roles-breonna-taylor-shooting/story?id=75034979

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1. That is not nearly enough

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3. Firing them is not nearly enough

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Cosgrove can probably skate on self-defense: the cops were fired upon by Beonna's boyfriend first (which he did legally, since he was a legal gun owner and the cops didn't announce or were in uniform). Jaynes is the real culprit: his deliberate negligence resulting in Breonna's name appearing on a warrant is what got her killed -- and could have gotten his fellow cops killed, too. He's good for involuntary manslaughter at the very least.

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2. "Four search warrants had been approved, at least one of them was no-knock,

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and at least one of them contained Breonna's name and address. If they SHOULDN'T have been on the warrant, THAT'S legitimate grounds for civil (if not criminal) charges."
-- (Rocktivity, 10/30/2020)

A month earlier, I had contended that "No one is going down for Breonna's death criminally because nothing criminal happened to her." While it's not the cops' fault they'd been sent there, her name being on the warrant was the result of a deliberate criminal act -- now there are grounds for demanding criminal justice!


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4. they said there was lying on the documents

of course no big deal to the bureaucracy