So, everything we have heard about the death of Breonna Taylor is all lies! The fake news liars have done a good job of making the world believe their disgusting lies.
The police WERE at the correct address – The police DID knock and announce themselves – Breonna Taylor was shot 5 times instead of 8, The police officer was NOT shot by another officer.
The real truth that we have learned is that Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend were apparently deeply involved with drug and drug dealing, and possibly were under investigation for a long time.
1. Myth: The officers that raided Breonna’s home were at the wrong address.
Perhaps the most prevalent false belief held by the general public is that the officers who served the search warrant at Taylor’s home were at the “wrong address.”
Police had obtained warrants for multiple locations linked to Jamarcus Glover, an alleged crack cocaine dealer. One of them included Taylor’s apartment, where she lived with her younger sister. Law enforcement believed Glover was using Taylor’s apartment as his current address and had been receiving mail and packages there.
According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, “Taylor’s name, birth date and social security number are listed on the warrant.” The outlet also reported it “includes her street address, apartment number and photos of her apartment door, which police later broke using a battering ram.”
Still, the “fake news” continues to permeate social media. For example, Pennsylvania State Senator Katie Muth, a Democrat, is currently using the false claim to push police reform legislation.
2. Myth: It wasn’t necessary for law enforcement to raid Taylor’s apartment because the main suspect was already in custody.
Both Sen. Muth and Crump say law enforcement did not need to serve the warrant at Taylor’s apartment because police had already arrested Glover in an earlier raid carried out by a different team of officers. Glover was reportedly captured around midnight; then, authorities executed the warrant at Taylor’s home at 12:40 am.
“Their real suspect was already in custody,” Crump wrote in his tweet from May.
While that fragment of his post appears to be accurate, it is also misleading.
The purpose of the raid at Taylor’s apartment was to find evidence, not to arrest Glover. Police said they thought Taylor was home alone at the time and were unaware that her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was visiting.
3. Myth: Police raided Taylor’s apartment without knocking.
Even though police had obtained a no-knock warrant, they knocked before entering Taylor’s apartment. No one involved disputes that account.
“Our intent was to give her give plenty of time to come to the door because they said she was probably there alone,” said Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, who was one of the three officers who discharged their weapons inside Taylor’s home.
4. Myth: Police shot Breonna while she was in her bed.
Walker said both he and Taylor were walking down a hallway of the apartment toward the front door when it flew off the hinges. He said he feared for his life and thought the plainclothes officers who broke down the door were intruders unlawfully entering his girlfriend’s home.
Police said they “forced entry into the exterior door and were immediately met with gunfire” at 12:43 am.
Walker shot Sgt. Mattingly in the leg, severing his femoral artery. Three cops returned fire, shooting more than 20 rounds into Taylor’s apartment. All of the officers who fired are white.
5. Myth: The officer shot during the raid at Breonna’s home was hit by “friendly fire.”
Shaun King, an activist often associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, claims to be collaborating with Crump on the Taylor case. King has a massive social media presence with millions of followers on multiple platforms.
On May 14, three days after Crump’s erroneous tweet, King alleged: “It is now believed that the police officer who got shot in the leg in the shooting of Breonna Taylor was shot by ‘friendly fire’ from his own officers. His partners were haphazardly emptying their clips and fired shots into 3 different apartments. They shot him.”
A CNN investigation quoted Walker admitting to firing at the officers.
“So I just let off one shot,” he said. “I still can’t see who it is or anything.”
6. Inaccurate claim: Police shot Breonna eight times.
In April, attorneys for Taylor’s family filed a civil lawsuit against the three policemen who fired their weapons inside Breonna’s home. The court document said Taylor had been “shot at least eight times by the officers’ gunfire and died as a result.” Crump’s tweet from May 11 repeated this claim, as has almost every news organization that covered the tragic episode.
But according to the Courier-Journal, Taylor’s death certificate from the State Registrar of Vital Statistics records her cause of death as “multiple (5) gunshot wounds of the body.”
The outlet noted that “neither ballistics reports nor Taylor’s autopsy have been released publicly.”
7. Inaccurate claim: Breonna worked as an EMT at the time of her death.
A press release issued by Crump’s law firm identified Taylor as an “EMT,” an acronym for an emergency medical technician.
A fact-check from the Courier-Journal concluded that Crump’s description of Taylor was “partially true,” finding:
Taylor joined the city as an EMT recruit in January 2016, became a full EMT by June and left the Metro Government in November 2016.
Local attorneys for Taylor’s family have clarified that she was working as an ER technician at two area hospitals at the time of her March 13 death, with aspirations of becoming a nurse.
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