stlavin95

That would be nice

Cristofle

My state is trying to outlaw no-knock warrants (like they kind they had for Breonna Taylor the night they killed her). I hope we're successful.

stlavin95

Still can't believe that's a thing

Cristofle

That they were able to get one for her - a woman with absolutely no history of violence or any compelling indication she was involved in selling drugs - shows how corrupt the whole practice is.

stlavin95

It really does

Cristofle

Like, even the warrant at all was a BIT of a stretch, but a no-knock warrant was pure insanity. And it's clear the boyfriend never heard them announce themselves (only one neighbor claims to have heard them say "Police" once - not repeatedly as they claimed and other neighbors didn't hear it at all, meaning it's unlikely they did either) going by his 911 call. I watched the NYT Presents episode of her case; awful

stlavin95

And yet they haven't been arrested.

Cristofle

I feel like they're going to say they technically didn't break state laws, given the warrant In which case it's time to scrap ALL YOUR STATE LAWS and just start over from scratch.

stlavin95

Shows you how ****ed those state laws are then

Cristofle

It seems like they're about to announce they won't be pressing charges :/ They've already declared a pre state of emergency, which doesn't bode well.

stlavin95

No it doesn't

Cristofle

Yep, no murder or manslaughter charges One cop got charged with shooting into other peoples' apartments, ridiculously enough. Sigh.

stlavin95

It seriously is

Cristofle

And this case is really an indictment of the whole criminal justice system, because it's not just the cops who shot her who are responsible. It's the judge who signed off on the warrant based on extremely tenuous information. It's whoever sent those police officers to her apartment at the last minute with virtually no awareness of who she was (AKA that she was NOT a drug dealer, nor did the drug dealer they were looking for live there, and indeed he'd already been arrested). Her younger sister lived in that apartment, and it's sheer luck she wasn't there that night.

stlavin95

Very true, how long has that been a law too?