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Jamarcus Glover, the focus of a series of Louisville police raids, including one in which officers shot and killed Breonna Taylor, was offered a plea bargain last month if he would admit that Taylor was a member of his organized crime syndicate, court records show.

As part of the July 13 offer, Glover was to admit that over a period of time through April 22 he and several co-defendants, including Taylor, engaged in organized crime by trafficking large amounts of drugs into the Louisville community.

Glover turned down the plea offer from the Jefferson Commonwealths Attorneys office, which would have resulted in a possible 10-year prison sentence for charges of criminal syndication, drug trafficking and gun charges.

If he had taken the plea, Glover could possibly had been released on probation instead of serving prison time. That decision would have been up to the sentencing judge.

The crime syndicate organization, according to the plea offer obtained by WDRB News, sold drugs mainly from abandoned or vacant houses on Elliott Avenue in the Russell neighborhood.

Taylor lived about 10 miles away in an apartment on Springfield Drive.

Attorney Sam Aguiar, who represents Taylors family in a wrongful death lawsuit, claims the plea offer shows the lengths to which those within the police department and Commonwealths Attorney went to after Breonna Taylors killing to try and paint a picture of her which was vastly different than the woman she truly was.

The fact that they would try to even represent that she was a co-defendant in a criminal case more than a month after she died is absolutely disgusting.

Defense attorney Scott Barton, who represents Glover, declined to comment Monday.

Commonwealths Attorney Tom Wine did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.

Louisville defense attorney Ted Shouse, who formerly worked for the Kentucky Innocence Project, said the strategy seems to have been to destroy Breonna Taylor because she is destroying them. And they want Jamarcus Glover to do it for them because their efforts have failed. So they offer him a bribe, basically. All you have to do is smear her.

Glover has said repeatedly in recorded jail phone calls and an interview with The Courier-Journal, that Taylor, a former girlfriend, was not involved in any drug operation and questioned why police would raid her home.

In one recorded jail call, Taylor said officers "didnt have no business looking for me at no Bre house.

"At the end of the day, I know she didnt ... I know she didnt to deserve none of this shit, though," he said according to the call, which is part of the evidence in his criminal case.

Other co-defendants identified in the plea offer, besides Taylor, included Demarius Bowman, Dominique Crenshaw, Adrian Walker, Rashawn Lee, Anthony Taylor II and Alicia Jones.

Lee said in a recorded jail phone call that "It aint got nothing to do with them up there, nothing." In another jail phone call, Bowman claimed "the money is in her name," referring to Taylor.

Police sought out a search warrant for Taylors home as part of a broader investigation that focused on drug suspects Glover and Adrian Walker. Police believed Glover may have been using her apartment to receive drugs and store money.

Glover also used Taylors address as his home address on bank statements and was observed by police picking up a package from her apartment in January before driving to a "known drug house," according to the search warrant affidavit.

Police shot and killed Taylor during an undercover raid on her apartment near Pleasure Ridge Park. She was struck five times, according to her death certificate.

Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, admitted to firing at police as they entered the apartment but claimed he believed the officers were intruders. He allegedly struck Officer Jonathan Mattingly.

In the search warrant affidavit filed before the raid of Taylors apartment, police said they believed Glover could be keeping drugs and money at her home.

In a jail call after the raid, in which Glover said Taylor was "hanging onto my money" for him, he claimed she had about $14,000 and that he could walk into her home and find it.

"She had the eight I gave her the other day ... and she picked up another six," Glover told an unidentified man.

And Glover did say, while trying to find enough money to post bond, that Taylor was "hanging onto my money" for him, according to the phone calls obtained by WDRB.

Aguiar said the two dated until mid-February and just because a woman has an off-and-on relationship with a bad guy doesnt mean she deserves a death sentence, or give law enforcement a reason to beat down her door in the middle of the night with no probable cause," Aguiar said.

And Aguiar noted that no drugs or money were found by police at Taylors home.

A search warrant from March 13 that shows items police seized from the apartment such as cell phones and shell casings does not list any money or drugs.

Glover later told his girlfriend that he was giving money to Taylor for a phone bill.

"The s*** that I was putting in the bank, though, it be phone bill money," Glover said. "It be phone bill money, it be whatever, like s***, I order s*** offline and s***. There ain't never been no money. There ain't never been what they was trying to make that s*** out to be. And then, like, as far as the money go, I was sending Bre you literally don't see the you literally going to see her pay pay her pay that the AT&T bill, them phones."

In another phone call he made from jail on the same day, Glover told his sister that another woman had been keeping the groups money.

Glover asked why, if police had been watching him before the arrest, as he claims officers told him, they raided Taylors home close to 1 a.m.

Glover insisted that the only thing tying him to Taylor was that she had bailed him out of jail previously.

"I dont understand how they going to serve a warrant for Bre house, bruh," Glover says to one man. "How is it they serve warrant for Bre house and nothing tied me to Bre house at all besides these bonds?"

The discovery in the Glover criminal case includes a police risk assessment of a raid of Taylors home, which evaluates factors such as weapons, lookouts and the criminal history of people believed to be inside.

The Springfield Drive apartment was given a 15, making it "low risk." Officer Mattingly told police investigators after the shooting that Taylor was a "soft target" who was thought to be alone in her apartment. Another home raided that night on Muhammad Ali Boulevard, for example, had a score of 88.

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But there are good ones.

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I wonder if someone tipped her off?

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jesus fucking christ ACAB

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Did you want them to never release why they served a warrant on her apartment, or...

Still disagree with a no-knock, but I dont think releasing information as to why a warrant was sought is a smear campaign.

I also still believe people arent angry enough at the judge who signed the warrant, given they think there was no probable cause.

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Tag so I canr ead later

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Patchwork posted...

Did you want them to never release why they served a warrant on her apartment, or...

Still disagree with a no-knock, but I dont think releasing information as to why a warrant was sought is a smear campaign.

I also still believe people arent angry enough at the judge who signed the warrant, given they think there was no probable cause.

Because theyre only doing this shit because they fucked up majorly and now theyre trying to cover their tracks.
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Patchwork posted...

I also still believe people arent angry enough at the judge who signed the warrant, given they think there was no probable cause.

Yeah, that judge deserves to rot in prison just like those cops that executed the "search" that killed her.
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hockeybub89 posted...

Uh, they literally were at the wrong place and shot a sleeping woman. Then they decided to try to use the guy that was actually arrested to retroactively justify their unjustifiable fuckup.

Didn't they also just like...not fill out an incident report or something? Man, these guys are wicked in the purest sense of the word

Okay here's my thing.

Even if she WAS guilty of this shit, cops are not executioners. We have due process for a reason.

Fuck these crooked ass cops.


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This needs to get major media attention.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

We have due process for a reason.

this

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Patchwork posted...

Did you want them to never release why they served a warrant on her apartment, or...

Still disagree with a no-knock, but I dont think releasing information as to why a warrant was sought is a smear campaign.

I also still believe people arent angry enough at the judge who signed the warrant, given they think there was no probable cause.

Giving one of the defendants a "plea" deal to say Taylor was involved in their operations is completely a smear. You can't ignore that.

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appealing to anti blackness to excuse their actions (she was a working class black woman who had associates who were in the drug game so of course she was also apart of their actions)
it sadly often works because many in this society view Blacks as others (unless fucking, making money off or entertaining them) prone to permanent criminal activity

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Lysandear posted...

Didn't they also just like...not fill out an incident report or something? Man, these guys are wicked in the purest sense of the word

One would think that all of them would write incident reports given that they had a shooting where someone died, but oh well...nothing to see here folks.


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Disband the whole Louisville police department.

Also, the judge that ordered the warrant needs to leave, too.

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LMPD is a special kind of evil and definitely played a role in making Louisville the hellhole it is today. Their damage control during all this has been a fucking embarrassment.

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Hey it's so weird that one of the CE cops just...ignored...the most important thing in the article. And passively defended the killer cops. Man that's weird, crazy

Lysandear posted...

Hey it's so weird that one of the CE cops just...ignored...the most important thing in the article. And passively defended the killer cops. Man that's weird, crazy

please post it for the class, I would like to read it

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Yikes
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nfearurspecimn posted...

please post it for the class, I would like to read it

ya, this, i always get entertainment out of whatever that dumbass posts.

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coolboy11 posted...

appealing to anti blackness to excuse their actions (she was a working class black woman who had associates who were in the drug game so of course she was also apart of their actions)
it sadly often works because many in this society view Blacks as others (unless fucking, making money off or entertaining them) prone to permanent criminal activity

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Can someone explain how these cops are supposed to be served justice when they were returning fire?

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Doe posted...

jesus fucking christ ACAB

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The whole system is corrupt, the police, the judges, the attorneys

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acab

Regardless of what Jamarcus may or may not have done, that's a fucking man right there. Not taking a bullshit plea deal to save his own ass and instead protect the integrity of his murdered ex-gf.

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At what point do people go French Revolution in America?

Police and Justice system will never willingly change and will punish those they have wrongly punished or harmed.

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Funkydog posted...

At what point do people go French Revolution in America?

The majority of Americans are white and in some ways benefit from the oppression of minorities

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I thought a prosecutor or judge or whomever dropped Glover's charges?

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