BearlySpeaking said:
quash said:
BearlySpeaking said:
quash said:
He gets a trial. She doesn't. Cops don't have to worry.
Yes, they don't have to worry because he escalated the encounter to lethal violence when the cops had not.
I have a question. Given your support in your posts above for lethal violence against people knocking at your door, would you support murdering people knocking on your door if they were the same race as you, or do you support it only if they are a different race from you? I'm genuinely curious, because I have seen strong indications from some posters on here that their support of a free pass for violence against cops is based on the race of the suspect.
I tried to find an answer in my previous posts and didn't. Nor did I see any support for murdering people who knock on the door. Sorry the straw blew away..
Maybe I misunderstood your position then.
So you do think Breonna's boyfriend was unjustified in shooting through his door at people who were knocking on his door, and that he was the one who escalated the situation to lethal violence? If so, then he bears the major responsibility for getting his girlfriend caught in the crossfire of a gunfight he started. In which case your example was straw to begin with and this is a much grayer and less clear-cut scenario than you first presented it as.
I think that given the facts (the boyfriend shot after the door was knocked off its hinges by the police battering ram) the police bear the burden on this one. The warrant for Ms. Taylor's apartment was issued based on her previous BF having used it as a place to receive drugs. He hadn't resided there in months, but this warrant just had to be executed on that particular midnight. With a battering ram and guns drawn at the windows.
Yes, she dated a drug dealer. And broke up with him. Apparently that allows police to shoot her at any point?
The police didn't just fire through the front door, they shot through a window and a sliding glass door. An adjacent apartment was shot up and the officer who did so is facing criminal charges, so we'll see what shakes out at trial.
Violence is rarely clear cut. The department clearly fired two officers involved and charged another with a crime.
Do you have more reasons to blame this victim for her death?
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat