Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say

[swag]

Source: Louisville Courier Journal

Phillip M. Bailey
Tessa Duvall
Louisville Courier Journal

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Breonna Taylor's shooting was the result of a Louisville police department operation to clear out a block in western Louisville that was part of a major gentrification makeover, according to attorneys representing the slain 26-year-old's family.

Lawyers for Taylor's family allege in court documents filed in Jefferson Circuit Court Sunday that a police squad — named Place-Based Investigations — had "deliberately misled" narcotics detectives to target a home on Elliott Avenue, leading them to believe they were after some of the city's largest violent crime and drug rings.

The complaint — which amends an earlier lawsuit filed by Taylor's mother against the three Louisville officers who fired their weapons into Taylor's home — claims Taylor was caught up in a case that was less about a drug house on Elliott Avenue and more about speeding up the city's multi-million dollar Vision Russell development plan.

"The execution of this search warrant robbed Breonna of her life and Tamika Palmer of her daughter," Florida-based attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the family, told The Courier Journal on Sunday.

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/05/lawyers-breonna-taylor-case-connected-gentrification-plan/5381352002/

[alittlelark]

1. O M G

[raging moderate]

2. Someday, when these people lie dying in pain, I hope they remember.

I hope they remember that they got this wonderful young lady killed as she lay sleeping. And I hope they remember that she was a truly gifted young emergency medical worker. And I hope they remember her smile and her posture, which show a huge potential, mentally, physically, emotionally, and morally. And I hope this occurs to them: If they had left her alone, this young lady might well have become the DOCTOR who would have STOPPED THEIR PAIN and perhaps even SAVED THEIR LIVES. And she would have helped THOUSANDS OF SUFFERING PEOPLE. And now she NEVER CAN. And that is all THEIR FAULT.

[pnwest]

3. unspeakable.

[chillfactor]

4. what despicable, heartless, souless people

involved in the death of an innocent person...there are no words to describe these monsters. May all the monsters involved burn in hell for eternity.

[lordsummerisle]

5. Beyond words n/t

[alphafemale]

6. Evil nt

[zentrum]

7. Devils

[Karadeniz]

8. Ungodly. They'll pay.

[BComplex]

9. Vision Russell development. Trump was a developer. Sounds like these guys took a play out of

the trump playbook.

[CountMyVote4Reality]

10. Stunning and yet, totally believable.

Corruption runs deep.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Worth reading for the full details

It explains why the 'no-knock' search warrant they had was about a different person (important, because that explains why it was a complete surprise to the innocent couple, who would think they were being attacked). The police seems to have made up the 'evidence' that "suspicious packages" were being received at the address by a ex-boyfriend of Taylor's - the US Postal Inspector says they had already been asked to check that, and had decided he wasn't. And it's that ex who is said to be blocking the redevelopment.

[llashram]

12. gentrification

yet another name for white racist ideas on what and who POC are to them. Flotsam to be discarded.