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Four Officers Face Federal Charges in Breonna Taylor Raid

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0:00 [Music] so there's finally an update let's find an update on something windows 9 very good i'll read it uh relating to the uh brianna taylor raid actually yeah federal officials have finally charged four officers in the briana taylor right is that when they went to the house um yeah yeah yeah and then they there's camera footage right and then they went in and then they uh i'm just trying to recap the audience for people that don't remember through the wall uh and uh she unnecessarily died through the killing the cops did a drive-by they did they did they did do a drive-by federal officials on thursday

0:51 charged four current and former police official uh officials officials i like officials in louisville kentucky who were involved in a fatal raid on the apartment briana taylor accusing them of several crimes including lying to obtain a warrant that was used to search her home that's the interesting thing how did they lie what was the lie do you know um they say we got a warrant or they they lied and got away you get the warrant from the judge so they like to the judge then uh so during the nighttime raid in march 2020 officers knocked down the door and fired a volley of gunshots after miss taylor's boyfriend shot an officer in the leg believing that intruders had burst into the home whoa two officers shot miss taylor a 26 year old emergency room technician who was pronounced dead at the scene jesus christ attorney general merrick garland said at a news conference that the louisville officers had quote violated

1:43 federal civil rights laws and that those violations resulted in miss taylor's death it was like um the wrong house or something right like that they were going for yeah so like um her boyfriend was shooting quote unquote in self-defense and ended up shooting a police officer because well that's because they thought they were being broken into they didn't know it was cops yeah the cops did a no-knock warrant that's the most ████ up part about the whole thing so you just kick the door down yeah they're not declaring that they're cops and that they are coming in or anything and they have a warrant they're just opening the ████ door and coming in i mean even then if like if it really was cops and they came in that way how are you supposed to believe in that quickly i don't know how are you supposed to i just started shooting a computer yeah like process too it's like the middle of the night if the door busted down ████ i'm not gonna say i hope you guys are officers and weren't they actually

2:34 trying to go after her ex or something that was like they thought he was like dealing out of that home or some ████ they were watching her that's what it was like it wasn't he wasn't even there the guy that was a target right yeah they were watching that place for like a month i think damn one thing they couldn't get a warning i don't know jesus so the killing of miss taylor who was black helped to set off protests in the spring and summer of 2020 following the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis and led to intense scrutiny of the police department in louisville the justice department has been investigating the department and the county government for more than a year reviewing whether officers regularly use unreasonable force and whether officers who break the department's rules are held accountable neither of the officers who shot and killed miss taylor have ever been charged nor are they named in the new indictments the charges instead name three officers who were part of an investigative unit that obtained the search warrant for the

3:25 raid along with the fourth officer who was later fired from the department because officials said he had fired blindly into miss taylor's apartment and struck a neighboring apartment damn well you're shooting like this and ████ he had this spread fire going from contra and he was just ████ that's a good that's a sick power up though in that game man that former officer brett hankerson already faced state criminal charges in the case the only charges filed over the raid until thursday but was acquitted the new indictment accuses him of federal civil rights violations ever since uh like uh george floyd though like i'm starting to finally see a lot of cops get in trouble for misconduct before this it was always all you know we're looking we're looking into it and uh you know uh they're on paid leave right now we're gonna show them we're going to show them the body cam footage

4:16 malfunctioned yeah that's a classic line that's the number one yeah or the ones where it's like hey turn your camera off turn the camera off yeah that one like jesus internal first stacked with x cops too like who went up the chain so it's like they're trying to protect the thin blue line at all times yeah so it's like cool thanks for the no bias so the bulk of the charges and the latest indictments surround the search warrant that police officer had sought in an investigation of miss taylor's former boyfriend whom they had believed to be selling drugs like ryan said prosecutors said on thursday that two detectives and a police sergeant had falsely claimed in an affidavit used to obtain the warrant that the foreign boyfriend had been receiving packages at mrs taylor's apartment in fact according to the indictment the officers had no evidence of such packages but misrepresented their case to the judge who authorized the raid that ████ was a big that was a really big piece of the element of the story so

5:08 that part wasn't even true holy ████ they ████ up so hard one of the officers charged joshua james a former detective who was also fired over his role in the raid sent a draft of the affidavit to kelly goodlett another detective now facing charges in which he included the false claim about the package as the prosecutor said miss goodlatte knew that the claim was false the prosecutor said but did not object to it and also added what they described as a quote misleading claim that the former boyfriend was using the address to miss taylor's apartment as its current address dude the fact that you can you can lie and then the person that you're lying to is like got it thank you we'll we'll keep the lie up the chain let's go ████ it like present the evidence to get the warrant and there wasn't the third officer charged sergeant kyle meaney what a mini who led a department investigative unit approved the

5:59 affidavit despite knowing that it contained the false information damn everyone looked the other way all of the chain i wonder how often this happens all right very often probably just in this case yeah probably probably just louisville kentucky yeah the indictment accuses two of the officers not only of including false information in the affidavit but conspiring to lie about it afterwards that's crazy two months after miss taylor's death prosecutors said miss mr james and miss good at good luck met in mr jane's garage and decided to tell investigators falsely that a sergeant had informed them that packages were being sent to mrs taylor's apartment that is so many behind-the-back punches in order to ████ clear up their story together mr james and mr meaney were each accused of violating ms taylor's right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures miss goodlett was accused of

6:50 conspiring to falsify the affidavit as well as conspiring to hinder the subsequent investigation into the raid mr mr james was also charged with conspiring to hinder the investigation how many ████ times do you think they've done this where it's protocol and so many people have been wrongly yeah accused or or uh uh caught or like whatever i hate to think about it but probably a lot it's probably one of those things where they've actually caught the right guy this way so many times too yeah that they're like oh let's just let it yeah you know because sometimes they do actually catch the right guy and sometimes the right guy is is so legislatively illiterate that he's just like oh you got me yeah you know where like some people are like more like easy to find the holes in the system this is why i'm so scared of the death penalty and i always like yo i'm against the death penalty because of ████ like

7:40 this like they can lie about you they can arrest you they can throw you in prison and you have no recourse so at least maybe if you're in prison there's a there's a hope that someday somebody will help to find your innocence but that's true the idea that we're just going to close the book on you because we got it all figured out already yeah when ████ like this is happening all the time that's definitely the best argument against the death penalty yeah the incompetence of the government exactly all the lies and the lies and it's like you're leaving your your fate in the hands of these people that are potentially gonna lie on you and that's like that's also speaking for most cases that don't get media attention like some dude could get arrested go to the death penalty die and no one knew one thing about them absolutely that's it they'll find out from dna evidence later if they didn't have like friends or family fighting for them or anything like that too you know because yeah or they didn't have stephen avery's

8:30 like fan base stephen avery you guys think he did it 100 no way 100 no way well until i saw season two and i was like oh that's interesting now i'm waiting for season three to know what i think what about brandon though what about what what about brendan that's he didn't do a thing dude brandon dassey just seems too ████ dumb i think i got worse than him they're for sure close careers that's what i thought when i was watching season one and this is making making making a murderer yeah season two did you wanna just throw you for a loop a little stephen avery probably did it he probably bread and dassey probably didn't do it as what i thought and then i started watching season two i was like maybe he probably what do they say in season two i don't even remember bob bernadzy yeah he was he was trying to watch wrestlemania a lot of people's opinions changed once they got to the part where steven avery like burns a cat alive he burned a cat a lot remember when there's like yeah i didn't say it yeah so like

9:20 there's like most people that do ████ like that could probably kill a dude you know what i mean like don't ████ i know that got you yeah well that's why they say like sometimes cops become a little bit gray area because they know that this ████ is wrong exactly they just finish up and make it more solid right because they don't want the stupid like court system yeah to kind of you know the red tape stupid ████ you gotta cut through the red tape sometimes well it's evidence we don't need evidence all the time and they're gonna do what they think you don't know like when you get pulled over for ████ and they'll live like can you still you know like most times you don't have to step out of your car you don't have to open your trunk you don't want to open your hood you don't have to they're gonna damage but if they say hey open your hood then you're gonna ████ do it because you're just like oh ████ i better do it and then there's a whole bunch of ████ drugs and money you're like you weren't even supposed to do that ████

10:10 man that's out of bounds oh man if they open my head i'm like sure it's just a ████ engine i'm not an idiot it's in my trunk if i it's in the upholstery ████ to open your trunk that's sexual harassment whoa what do you mean by that damn so i like where this video started we were like yeah ████ these cops but now we're kind of like okay this is uh maybe we should have some cops who cut cut through the red line right joe sometimes boy i'm glad joe made that point hey i don't know about you but i'm for the death penalty always was on you know i just feel like it's the greatest thing in the world but um that's the greatest thing you know what i mean why why yeah people shouldn't exist sometimes oh i see people yeah and then like if they're getting caught up in the system then you know exist

11:00 sometimes a lot of people do you believe in having like a purge day oh a thousand percent we should have more purge days more um more more more than just one i mean it kind of exists right now in downtown l.a and you know but like chicago yeah chicago yeah i don't know but i feel like it's kind of unfair for people that are poor because they live in purge day every day and it's kind of like that's our that's out of bounds right there you know it should be one day so they should get purge day off they actually should yeah i think so they should we should have like purge like free zones people trying to purge them isn't that the whole thing i don't think if joe was the leader of the world it would be so confusing i think i'd be so confused if joe was a leader it would make sense when you're there it's one of those things where you got to be in it to understand the vision

11:51 there's like there's a lot of things that are lost in translation you know there's like culture there's like so many new cultures you know like it's hard to explain but you got to be there you know and then you gotta live it and then you're like ah it's like kim jong jitsukawa kim jong ji we have to kill this goddamn fly the fly is definitely ruining things it's right next to you i mean it does exist right that's what jamali is yeah well i want to honeypot his sister and then take over the country kim jong-il she's very by the way ass ████ she's fine bro that's a confirmed hot system dude ████ kim jong-il's sister man like you think kim jong-il got like hots for assists he's like yo sis you look crazy dude do you think they would ever have north korean pop they should like as a popular one what would it be see those ████ dudes with the accordion bands they got like 50

12:43 guys on accordion that ████ would be yeah that is fine bro you literally you said kim jong-il's sister no oh no oh that's the ceo of ████ kumon he knew come on talking about it [Laughter] you wished she owns a seafood city market yo that's that's a mitsuba owner man you know what my type is what powerful women ████ i like a strong woman like this is not steve's sister quality dude that's awesome

13:39 kindergarten teacher she is the right-hand woman of the most powerful man with the biggest military in the world yeah watch your ████ south korea has the biggest so that's what makes your hot power makes people hot foreign

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