Current Events > Louisville Police release Breonna Taylor incident report

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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/06/10/breonna-taylor-shooting-louisville-police-release-incident-report/5332915002/

Nearly three months after Louisville Metro Police officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her South End apartment, the department has released the incident report from that night.

Except, it is almost entirely blank.

The four-page report lists the time, date, case number, incident location and the victim's name Breonna Shaquille Taylor as well as the fact that she is a 26-year-old black female.

The report redacts Taylor's street number, apartment number and date of birth all of which have been widely reported already.

And it lists as her injuries, "none," even though she was shot at least eight times and died on her hallway floor in a pool of blood, according to attorneys for her family.

It lists the charges as "death investigation LMPD involved" but checks the "no" box under "forced entry," even though officers used a battering ram to knock in Taylor's apartment door.

It also lists under the "Offenders" portion of the report the three officers who fired in Taylor's apartment, fatally shooting her Sgt. Jon Mattingly, 47; Myles Cosgrove, 42; and Brett Hankison, 44.

See also: Citing Taylor's death, new report calls for the end of no-knock warrants

The "narrative" of events March 13 says only "PIU investigation." And the rest of the report has no information filled in at all.

"I read this report and have to ask the mayor, the police chief and the city's lawyers: Are you kidding? This is what you consider being transparent to taxpayers and the public?" asked Richard A. Green, editor of The Courier Journal and courierjournal.com.

"At a time when so many are rightfully demanding to know more details about that tragic March evening, I fail to understand this lack of transparency. The public deserves more"

Taylor was at her Springfield Drive apartment when around 12:40 a.m. when the three plainclothes officers used a no-knock search warrant signed by District Judge Mary Shaw to enter her home as part of a narcotics investigation.

Officers say they announced their presence, but Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, and several neighbors say they did not. Walker has said he thought intruders were trying to break in and fired a warning shot that struck Mattingly in the leg.

Mattingly, Hankison and Cosgrove are on administrative reassignment pending the investigation. The detective who requested the warrant, Joshua Jaynes, has also been reassigned, LMPD announced Wednesday.

This document is proof that LMPD continues to make a mockery of transparency, said Jon Fleischaker, counsel for the Courier Journal and one of the principal authors of the states Open Records law that requires the release of public documents in all but extremely rare circumstances.

Under the Fischer administration, there has been a consistent policy and practice of refusing to tell the public what is going on with the police, regardless of how inappropriate the officer conduct has been even when it was criminal, as in the LMPD Explorer case," Fleischaker said.

With debate about police reform taking place nationwide, Fleischaker said city leaders "are refusing to honor their obligations to disclose the basic information necessary for the citizens of Louisville to have a meaningful debate about what needs to change."

"How can we even seriously debate police reform if the police wont engage and the mayor wont stand up to them?" he said.

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wtf

time to shutdown that PD. lets make Louisville the 2nd city to abolish it's cops

...REALLY?

Seriously? They're seriously going to try to pull this? They had one job in providing an actual accurate report.

We're long beyond the point where there is even an iota justifying assumptions of negligence. This is outright malignance.

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ThePieReborn posted...

...REALLY?

Seriously? They're seriously going to try to pull this? They had one job in providing an actual accurate report.

We're long beyond the point where there is even an iota justifying assumptions of negligence. This is outright malignance.

Maybe if we gave them more money they'd be better.

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Antifar posted...

Except, it is almost entirely blank.

jfc

Fine, if no one reported it then I guess the police shouldn't serve to exist in Louisville either.

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ThePieReborn posted...

We're long beyond the point where there is even an iota justifying assumptions of negligence. This is outright malignance.

This. If this is their attempt at "transparency", they must think everyone else is a moron.
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They must need more training and funds to know not to kill people in their own homes and then falsify reports afterwards.

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This is not an institution you can reason with or salvage in its current state. They believe they are unfairly under attack when even lightly criticized and believe they should never have to explain or justify anything they do. They get pouty and petulant and take their ball and go home when you don't publicly fellate them. They will fight any serious reform every step of the way.

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legendary_zell posted...

This is not an institution you can reason with or salvage in its current state. They believe they are unfairly under attack when even lightly criticized and believe they should never have to explain or justify anything they do. They get pouty and petulant and take their ball and go home when you don't publicly fellate them. They will fight any serious reform every step of the way.

and because of that, we need to crack down hard on them. the people must rise up and shut them down. they are enemies of the people. and they no longer deserve to exist