The death of Breonna Taylor, one of the multiple trigger points of the Summer of Floyd riots in 2020, was just ruled by a judge to be the fault of her boyfriend.
A federal judge has thrown out major felony charges against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor's door before they fatally shot her.
U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson's ruling declared that the actions of Taylor's boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid, were the legal cause of her death, not a bad warrant.
If you'll recall the Black Lives Matter narrative from 2020, Breonna Taylor was supposedly killed during a no-knock raid, based on a bad warrant, where police supposedly shot her in her sleep.
There were also rumors spread by BLM supporters that police even raided the wrong apartment.
In reality, Breonna only died because her boyfriend opened fire on the police who showed up to the apartment to serve the warrant.
Now the courts recognize that the police officers who were fired and slandered in Louisville were practicing self defense. Unfortunately, Breonna Taylor was caught in the crossfire.
The two officers in this case were not part of the raid, but they were part of the warrant process.
Federal charges against former Louisville Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany were announced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 during a high-profile visit to Louisville. Garland accused Jaynes and Meany, who were not present at the raid, of knowing they had falsified part of the warrant and put Taylor in a dangerous situation by sending armed officers to her apartment.
But Simpson wrote in the Tuesday ruling that ‘there is no direct link between the warrantless entry and Taylor's death.' Simpson's ruling effectively reduced the civil rights violation charges against Jaynes and Meany, which had carried a maximum sentence of life in prison, to misdemeanors.
Essentially, in the court's opinion, the fact that Breonna Taylor's boyfriend opened fire on the cops was the catalyst that caused Breonna's death. The police have been largely vindicated.
'Obviously we are devastated at the moment by the judge's ruling with which we disagree and are just trying to process everything,' Taylor's family wrote in a statement Friday to The Associated Press. It said prosecutors told the family they plan to appeal Simpson's ruling.
'The only thing we can do at this point is continue to be patient ... we will continue to fight until we get full justice for Breonna Taylor.'
The U.S. Justice Department said in an email that it 'is reviewing the judge's decision and assessing next steps.'
The Biden-Harris DoJ's efforts to wage lawfare against the Louisville police has hit a brick wall.
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