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Originally Posted by bigtmac19
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This outcome was clear from the start. Once you removed all the misinformation that was spread, the facts about the actual shooting really came down to:
- officers were executing a signed warrant that legally allowed them to enter the premise unannounced (i.e. it doesn't matter whether we believe them that they did announce themselves).
- once shot at, they had a right to shoot back in defense.
There may have been hope that the officer outside shooting "blindly" could be charged with some form of reckless discharge or whatever, but Breonna Taylor was next to her boyfriend, whatever shot her was not "reckless." And it won't be hard to find a jury that has sympathy for an officer having his partner shot at to act a bit 'reckless.'
There may still be hope for something to happen to the warrant-signing officer if the warrant was indeed obtained with knowingly false information, but I think the leaked documents will help to establish that the officer had enough evidence to believe that Ms. Taylor was reasonably involved in drug dealing and will be able to argue that the postal inspector sentence was a 'mistake' if it was indeed wrong. But in any regard, that has no bearing on the shooting officers if they did not know that the warrant was incorrect.
Really this comes down to stupid no-knock warrants being allowed for minor drug dealers because you're afraid they will flush $200 of drugs down the toilet. And of course department policies to allow those warrants to be executed at night by plain clothed officers without body cameras. Past time that no-knock warrants are changed.