kiid wants to be George Zimmeman when he grows up.
Really good 18 min NYT video of the Breonna Taylor police raid/killing, with some later interviews.
Full reconstruction of police locations and shots fired.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007348445/breonna-taylor-death-cops.htmlAfter the police kick down the door, Kenneth Walker fires one shot to protect himself, hitting Det. Mattingly in the thigh. He stands exposed int he doorway and fires off six shots before falling backwards. Next officer steps into the doorway danger zone (even stepping on Mattingly) and empties his gun of 16 shots, despite the apartment being dark and he has no idea what he is shooting at. Afterwards, he say he doesn't recall firing even one shot.
Two more officers shoot blindly into the kitchen to the left and pump a couple shots up and through the ceiling. Thinking there's a big firefight going on, two more officers run outside and one just starts shooting blindly into two of the windows to the apartment. Two of his bullets whiz through the walls into another apartment where a family is huddled. He's the only one charged for reckless endangerment of the neighbors.
The SWAT team which is called as backup, thinks all of the procedure and execution were botched badly.
A couple things stood out to me.
- The 2nd officer to shoot fires 16 rounds into a dark apartment, until he's out of bullets. Incredibly reckless and excessive.
- No officers on the raid had a body cam on.
- Roughly 40 police cars came to the scene -- to deal with two people and one shot fired in self-defense after the police raided an apartment violently after midnight.
It's like a police riot, where the police create and sustain a dangerous situation, and escalate it in the mistaken belief others are firing shots and it's not just them.
- 32 bullets fired by the police in under 3 minutes.
I think the first 20 bullets were fired in under 1 minute.
And this was an apartment building so their were neighbors all over (none of which heard to police announce that they were Police).