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This is Undaunted Life of Man's Podcast, I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into
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it.
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Alright guys, here's the deal.
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Let's just start right here from the very top.
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They are lying to you about what really happened to Breonna Taylor.
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They're lying to you and they don't care.
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And most of you won't even notice that that's what they're doing.
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So obviously this week, that is the big news.
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There's a lot of big news this week.
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I keep saying there's big news, right?
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I'm gonna talk about this story.
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It's big news.
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This news is big.
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And this is big.
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And by the time you listen to this podcast, Donald Trump will have nominated his Supreme
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Court Justice pick, there's always big news.
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But the big news this week was they finally took care of business here in the Breonna Taylor
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case.
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And they brought down the charges that were forthcoming for some of these officers.
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So let's back up a little bit to what happened.
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Okay.
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So shortly after midnight on Friday, March the 13th of 2020.
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So that's earlier this year, 26 year old Breonna Taylor was shot and killed in her apartment
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by police who were serving a warrant in connection with an ongoing narcotics case.
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Okay.
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Breonna Taylor is black.
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The officers are white.
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And that's pretty much the whole story for some people, right?
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But that obviously doesn't describe the entire situation.
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So let's dive in.
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And the way that I'm going to do that is I'm actually going to read a minute by minute
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breakdown.
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I saw that Ben Shapiro did this, but I thought it was incredibly effective because I went
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and read it for myself.
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The Louisville Courier Journal did a minute by minute breakdown and really date by date
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breakdown of the things that happened in the Breonna Taylor case because it's not just about
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what happened after the police officers, you know, bear or knock the door down, right?
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There's a whole lot more that goes before that.
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So I'm going to go ahead and read from this and don't worry.
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I'll give this to you in the show notes if this is hard for you to follow, but it starts
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all the way back on December 30th of last year of 2019.
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Police execute the research warrants in the Russell neighborhood, seizing several guns
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and narcotics among the six people subsequently arrested is Jamarkis Glover, who is Breonna
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Taylor's ex boyfriend, not current boyfriend, not the one that was in the apartment with
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her whenever this shooting went down.
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This is her ex boyfriend.
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Okay.
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January 2nd.
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During the surveillance camera, police see a white Chevrolet Impala pull up in front
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of a particular address in that area.
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One of the houses hit with a search warrant for a few from a few days earlier, and Glover
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gets out of the passenger side of the car, which is registered to Breonna Taylor on January
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16th, Glover is seen driving to Breonna Taylor's Springfield Drive apartment and walking inside.
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After a brief stay, police see Glover leave a message with quote, a suspected USPS package
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unquote, and then drives to a house in West, West Muhammad Ali Boulevard, which was also
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hit with a second search warrant, or sorry, with an initial search warrant on December
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30th, February 14th after an officer tows his car from West Muhammad Ali Boulevard, Glover
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to attempts to file a complaint against the officer.
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The phone number he gave on the complaint was registered to Taylor continuing on here.
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Sorry.
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12th, and this is midday on March 12th, Detective Joshua James, an officer in the place based
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investigations unit of the criminal interdiction division requests five known ox search warrants
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from circuit judge Mary Shaw for an ongoing narcotics investigation.
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And this just keeps continuing.
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Now we're getting into some more information on March the 12th.
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So on 12 at 1225 PM, Shaw signs off on the affidavits for the first two warrants for
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houses at 2424 and 2425 Elliot Avenue, six minutes later, Shaw signs off on 2426 Elliot
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Avenue.
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And then four minutes after that, she approves 2605 West Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
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All four homes are in the Russell neighborhood at 1237 PM.
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This is just a few minutes later, Shaw signs off on the search warrant for Brianna Taylor's
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apartment, which is 10 miles away in South Louisville.
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In a in an affidavit for the warrant, James wrote the following Glover's car had made frequent
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trips to Brianna Taylor's Springfield Drive apartment.
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Glover walked directly into Brianna Taylor's apartment on January 16th, a US postal inspector
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verified Glover received packages at Brianna Taylor's apartment and Brianna Taylor's car
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had been seen in front of the Elliot Avenue location on different occasions.
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At approximately nine PM that day, Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, again, this
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is different person.
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This is Kenneth Walker.
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They got home from dinner and after hanging out with some other people, it was Brianna
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Taylor's first night off after a few nights of working consecutive shifts at an ER.
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They climbed into bed and put on a movie around 10 o'clock that evening.
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Just about an hour later, police officers were briefed on the entry plan for Brianna Taylor's
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apartment.
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Just before midnight, about 45 minutes before serving the warrant, Mattingly said he drove
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by Taylor's apartment while another officer detective Mike Campbell had an eye on the house.
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The only thing Campbell saw while watching Taylor's apartment, Mattingly said was the
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light on the TV in the bedroom.
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Police thought Brianna Taylor would be home alone.
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He said inside the apartment, Taylor had fallen asleep to the movie, Freedom Riders.
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And Walker said he had started to doze off.
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Now on March 13th, this is, of course, right after midnight.
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So technically the same evening at 12 40 a.m.
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Officers were in place outside of Taylor's apartment and began to knock on the door.
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It's very important.
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They knocked on the door after a few knocks, Mattingly said they began to identify themselves
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as police.
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The knocking startled Brianna Taylor and Walker out of bed and they began yelling out asking
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who is there.
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They said that they didn't hear anybody in response after about a minute and hearing
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no response from inside police use a battering ram to knock the front door down.
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Inside Walker had grabbed his gun as both he and Brianna Taylor pulled on clothes and
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went to answer the door.
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They left the bedroom and hat and made it down the hallway before the door came off the hinges
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according to Walker at 12 42 a.m.
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The neighbors at the St. Anthony Garden apartments, which is where this was all going down.
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All 911 to report gunshots, Walker says he fires one shot as a warning, which is really
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not the case because he shot an officer in the leg.
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He said he aimed at the ground, which didn't happen.
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He said he was still unable to see an unclear who was at the door.
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Mattingly and detectives, Miles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, both of those names will come
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up here in just second.
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They return fire at 12 43 a.m.
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Officers on the scene called dispatch to report an officer had been shot.
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Officials say that this person was shot by Walker.
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Another is struck in the return fire by the police Brianna Taylor was at 12 47 a.m.
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Walker calls 911 and says somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend at 12 48
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a.m.
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A Brianna Taylor is officially declared dead 10 miles away on Elliott Avenue.
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Police gave Glover her ex boyfriend, the main target of the narcotics investigation and
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three of his associates, they got them all in custody.
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Officers sees drugs, guns and cash from the Elliott Avenue properties.
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The fifth warrant on West Muhammad Ali Boulevard, a boulevard was not executed at 1 a.m.
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Police officers arrest Walker after commanding him to walk backwards as he leaves the apartment
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at 1 10 a.m.
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Police tell dispatch there's a woman inside the apartment at 1 46 a.m.
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EMS leave Taylor's apartment complex at 3 35 a.m.
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Police return with a second search warrant for Taylor's apartment inside.
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They find shell casings and bullets, police recovered no drugs or cash, though they do
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find mail for Glover, which is brown Taylor's ex boyfriend, and at 3 53 a.m.
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Sergeant Amanda Sealy and Sergeant Chad Tennell of the public integrity unit interview Walker
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who insists he didn't know it was police on the other side of the door.
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And this is a quote from Walker.
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The only reason I even had begun out was because we didn't know who it was.
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If we knew who it was, this would have never happened.
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Walker said, and there's more stuff here, but those are the facts of the case.
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Okay.
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So I think it's very important from the very beginning to establish the facts of the case.
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Again, I know that that's a lot of information.
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That's why I'm putting this in the show notes for you.
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You can go back and just rewind this and listen to it again.
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But that is kind of the date by date and minute by minute breakdown of what happened in this
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case.
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Okay.
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But pretty much all spring and all summer, everyone in their dog, you know, at least
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on the Democrat, Black Lives Matter, leftist side of things, they just said that this was
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another act of systemic state sponsored violence and murder against black people.
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Okay.
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So everyone from Michelle Obama to LeBron James to even the Tampa Bay Rays on opening day.
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They're like, Hey, it's opening day and it's a great day to arrest the cops that murdered
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Breonna Taylor.
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And that's the thing is all these people, even members of Congress.
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So you've got, you know, sitting senators and you know, the squad and the house of representatives,
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these people were all using the word murder to describe what happened in this case.
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Now, even if you were able to sit there and listen to me, listen, or list down the things
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from the Louisville Courier Journal, does any of that sound like a murder?
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You kind of have to ask yourself that because that is what I, what I described as the facts
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of the case.
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But again, to say the word murder, that's a very specific thing that has legal ramifications.
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But on Wednesday of this week, that's September 23rd of 2020.
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For those of you listening to this later, a grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky decided
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to charge only one of the three officers involved with any crimes.
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They just, they charged detective Brett Hankison with three counts of wanton endangerment.
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And they did so because several of his shots at his shot, I think he shot 10 shots.
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They went into adjoining apartments other than the one that he was in.
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So they're basically saying that the way that he dispatched, you know, bullets from his firearm
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was, you know, just kind of a little bit wild.
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That's essentially what they're saying.
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So they've gotten three counts of wanton endangerment for him.
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But here is Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron at a news conference where he announces
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the charges.
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I think it's important the way that he announces them and also the plea he basically makes
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with people there after, but here is Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
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After hearing the evidence from our team of prosecutors, the grand jury voted to return
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an indictment against detective Hankison for three counts of wanton endangerment for wanton-ly
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placing the three individuals in apartment three in danger of serious physical injury
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or death.
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While there are six possible homicide charges under Kentucky law, these charges are not
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applicable to the facts before us because our investigation showed and the grand jury
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agreed that mattingly and cause growth were justified in the return of deadly fire after
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having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker.
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Let me state that again.
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According to Kentucky law, the use of force by mattingly and cause growth was justified
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to protect themselves.
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This justification bars us from pursuing criminal charges in Ms. Breonna Taylor's death.
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I understand that Ms. Breonna Taylor's death has become a part of a national story and
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conversation, but we must also remember the facts and the collection of evidence in this
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case are different than cases elsewhere in the country.
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Each is unique and cannot be compared.
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There will be celebrities, influencers, and activists who having never lived in Kentucky
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will try to tell us how to feel, suggesting they understand the facts of this case and
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that they know our community and the Commonwealth better than we do, but they don't.
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Let's not give in to their attempts to influence our thinking or capture our emotions.
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At the end of the day, it is up to us.
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We live here together.
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We work here and raise our families here together.
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I urge those protesting on the streets to remember this.
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Peaceful protests are your right as an American citizen, instigating violence and destruction
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are not.
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Well, there you go.
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And guys, I just got to tell you, he's an incredibly impressive guy.
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But for those of you who don't know, he's a black man.
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That shouldn't matter.
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But again, they're kind of goes into there's a lot of things he got, a lot of criticism
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from people that would consider themselves on the black left or people that are, you
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know, black lives matter advocates or people that support those individuals.
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He was called skin folk, but not kinfolk.
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He was just really ripped up and down for being complicit in this whole white supremacist
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system and all these different things.
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But the thing is, is he said a lot of great things there.
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You know, let's not listen to these outside voices, people that don't understand Louisville,
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people that understand, understand these people that didn't live in these neighborhoods.
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You know, let's not let these people dictate things.
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You know, you can peacefully protest, but it has to be peaceful.
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But here's the thing.
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Did any of these people actually listen to AG Cameron's words?
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Of course they didn't.
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Of course not, because quote unquote spontaneous riots broke out everywhere, specifically in
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Louisville.
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But then they broke out all over the country as well.
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In Los Angeles, they had people that were like literally blocking other drivers in and
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trying to pull them out of their cars and presumably beat them to death.
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But the funny thing about the reason why I said quote unquote spontaneous rights is because
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there's this video that's gone viral where there's this U-Haul truck, which was rented
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out by somebody that is kind of like a bail advocate.
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So that's like somebody who basically gets all these people that have been arrested for
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protesting out on bail so that they can continue protesting.
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And by protesting, I mean, throwing Molotov cocktails or police officers, but there was
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this U-Haul that had all these signs in it, these pre-made signs, basically saying defund
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the police and down with white supremacy and black lives matter and all these different
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things.
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And you see all these nerds, all these might mainly white people going into this U-Haul
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and they're pulling out these things or pulling out riot shields and then they're going out
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into Louisville to, you know, fight the man, fight the power and all those things or whatever.
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But overnight, you know, from Wednesday through Sunday or Thursday morning, rather, there
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were over 100 people that were arrested and there was a lot of destruction in Louisville
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and across the country, but mainly in Louisville.
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But here's the other thing is two police officers, two Louisville police officers were shot allegedly
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by a guy named Lorenzo Johnson, a young guy, but he was literally firing his gun at police
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officers and he, and he shot two of them.
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Luckily that they didn't sustain life-threatening injuries, but that's essentially what happened
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immediately, which is exactly what we expect now.
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This is exactly what we expect.
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We expect there to be violence.
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We expect there to be things on fire and we expect it to be mostly peaceful if you're listening
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to the media.
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But then everybody else had to weigh in, of course, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, even
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though they're hiding mainly in the basement and out of sight at this point, they did kind
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of pipe, you know, poke their heads above water for a little bit just to let us know
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that they think that we're all systemically racist.
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So Joe Biden, Joe Biden said this on Twitter, we must continue to speak Breonna Taylor's
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name, support her family still in grieving and never give up on ensuring the full promise
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of America for every American.
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Obviously the implication there is that not every American gets equal treatment under
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the law and that this was a racist killing.
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That's the obvious undertone there.
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And then you have Kamala Harris saying this, tonight, I'm thinking of Breonna Taylor's
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family who is still grieving the loss of a daughter and sister.
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We must never stop speaking Breonna Taylor's name as we work to reform our justice system,
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including overhauling no-knock warrants.
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So we'll talk about no-knock warrants here in a second, but again, she says reform our
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justice system at which point I would ask her if she was standing here in front of me what
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injustice was done because this woman was killed, but murder is a very specific charge.
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She should know that she she was, I believe the district attorney of the entire state
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of California or the or the attorney general, right?
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Like she was a law enforcement officer, right?
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The most powerful one in the state of California for a decent period of time.
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But again, that doesn't matter.
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True doesn't matter, which we'll certainly get more into here in a second.
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And then of course we had athletes weighing in and a lot of NBA athletes Chris Paul and
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Jimmy Butler, but then you got LeBron James.
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He said, that's, I know we lost a beautiful woman in Brianna.
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We want justice no matter how long it takes.
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Again, that word justice, you'd have to ask LeBron James, even though I'm not sure he
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even understands English at this point is what justice is he talking about?
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Because what's so interesting to me is he was asked his opinion on the two Los Angeles
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County sheriff's deputies that were shot, you know, that person just walked up and basically
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shot these two sheriff's deputies in the faces while they were sitting there in their
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police cruiser. And you know, it's funny is when he was asked about that and asked to
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give a comment, LeBron James said, no comment.
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Isn't that interesting?
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Like this is a guy that's all about justice and fairness and all these different things.
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But these two non black police officers were shot in the face by a black person whom they
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haven't found yet to my knowledge.
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And he didn't have anything to say, even though that's in the same county that he makes
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all his millions from right now, playing for the Los Angeles Lakers.
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But he wasn't the only NBA personality to basically go out there and say ridiculous things.
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Jaitlyn Rose, right?
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Retired basketball player, ESPN, basketball commentator.
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He made things really weird, you know, as they're going to a commercial break during
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the, I think it was Miami Heat, Boston Celtics game four of the Eastern Conference finals.
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He had this to say.
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Darrows, Tyler heroes, Gordon double figures every game this postseason.
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He's been putting it work for young fella, but it'd also be a great day to arrest the
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coffee and murder Breonna Taylor.
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So yeah, that's a thing that happened.
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They had to cut, took a commercial really quick and no one really knew what to say because
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out of nowhere when we're supposed to be just watching basketball, I wasn't watching the
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game if you were wondering, but for those that are actually watching it just to get an escape
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and watch, you know, people run up and down the court and try to put a ball through a
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hoop.
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They had to hear this cry from someone saying that there needs to be justice for the people
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that quote murdered Breonna Taylor, again, murder a very specific thing that requires
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a very specific charge.
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But luckily there were some voices, some very famous NBA voices that were speaking about
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the other side of this issue.
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So we've got Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal, both of them are part of the T and
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T team.
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I'm going to let you hear a couple of clips of some things that Charles Barkley said,
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some short clips.
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And then I'll read a quote from Shaq after.
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So here we go with Sir Charles Barkley.
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Just bad to young lady lost her life, but you know, we do have to take into account that
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her boyfriend did shoot at the cops and shot a cop.
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So like I say, even though I'm really sorry she lost her life, I don't think that we can
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just say we can put this in the same situation with George Floyd and I'm I'm on Aubrey.
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I just don't believe that.
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And so the next thing here, we have him talking a little bit further about the people that
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are saying things like defund the police.
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So here's Charles Barkley again.
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To really be careful on, you know, I hear these fools on TV talking about defund the police
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and things like that.
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We need police reform and prison reform and things like that because you know who ain't
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going to defund the cops, white neighborhoods and rich neighborhoods.
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So that notion, they keep saying that I'm like, wait a minute, we just going to leave who
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are black people supposed to call Ghostbusters when we have crime in our neighborhoods, we
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need police reform.
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But like I say, white people, especially rich white people, they're always going to have
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cops.
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They have cops that defund or emboss the cops crap.
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And pretty much right after that, Shaquille O'Neal had this to say, here's a quote from
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him.
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I have to agree with Charles.
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This is one or this one is sort of lumped in.
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You have to get a warrant signed and some states do allow no knock warrants and everyone
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was asking for murder charges.
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When you talk about murder, you have to show intent and homicide occurred and we're sorry
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a homicide occurred.
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When you have a warrant signed by the judge, you are doing your job and I would imagine
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that you would fire back.
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And so the thing is, is knowing what we've known all along about this case, because most
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of the facts of the case weren't revealed on Wednesday of this week, right?
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I mean, I'm not sure if there was anything material that we learned on Wednesday of this
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week, but no one should have been surprised by the announcement and the lack of charges
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delivered.
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Like frankly, I would have been incredibly surprised if there were murder charges brought
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against these three detected or three police officers are two and one detective, whatever.
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These three people in law enforcement, I would have been very, very surprised to see that.
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It wouldn't have made a lot of sense to me.
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And the reason is, is because we've basically been marinating in lies since March, right?
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And there's been a lot that's happened this year.
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We've got, you know, Jacob Blake and George Floyd and all these other different people.
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And there's, there's something off with all these situations, right?
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And we'll go into all those and we've gone into a lot of those, but there's so many lies
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that are being spread.
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And there are specific lies that are being told by Black Lives Matter and Democrats and
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leftists and mainstream media people about this case.
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And it's in order to serve the, serve their narrative, right?
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So these are lies and or myths about the case that are running rampant, even in my own house.
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So it's funny is I was preparing this podcast.
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I don't think my wife knew about it, but she's like, Hey, you know, again, we've got
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a newborn.
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She's like, what's going on with this whole Brianna Taylor thing?
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I just haven't been able to, you know, really look into it.
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But I mean, the police, they shot her while she was asleep in her bed, right?
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And again, my wife doesn't pay that close attention to the news.
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So I couldn't be that mad at her.
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But again, it's one of those deals that everyone hears the initial story, never the retraction.
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Right.
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So there's this big front page story on the New York Times about some crazy issue.
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And then it's proved to be completely false.
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And then they print the retraction on like the last page, right?
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And, you know, size eight font at the very, very bottom that no one's going to ever see.
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But the thing is, is there are people that are staying hands still saying hands up, don't
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shoot, right?
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These morons that think that Michael Brown was a victim in the case where he was shot
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and killed, right?
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People are still saying that all these years later.
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But guys, here's just a quick rundown of some of the lies we've been told.
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And in some cases are still being told about the Brianna Taylor case.
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And here are the ones that I've heard the most often.
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Number one, police were at the wrong apartment.
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Number two, police served a no knock warrant.
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Number three, Brianna Taylor was alone when she died.
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Number four, Brianna Taylor was asleep in her bed when she was shot.
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Number five, the police officer that was shot was shot by friendly fire.
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And number six, Brianna Taylor is completely innocent in this case.
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Okay.
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So let's break down those one at a time.
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Number one, police were at the wrong apartment.
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They weren't at the wrong apartment.
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They were literally casing the apartment because they knew that was one of the ones that they
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were going to go into as part of this investigation.
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So that's a lie.
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Number two, police served a no knock warrant.
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They did not serve a no knock warrant.
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They possessed a no knock warrant.
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Obviously a judge saw it fit that they not have to knock before entering a place.
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So again, let's talk about no knock warrants right here before we move further.
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Obviously, this is to protect police officers.
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That's what no knock warrants do because guess what?
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If you're going into a dangerous situation and at the moment before you knock on the door,
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the people inside don't know that you're there.
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You have the element of surprise on your side.
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That's why Navy SEALs over in Afghanistan aren't like knocking nicely on the terrorist
22:30
door before they bust in, right?
22:31
They're using the element of surprise before they, you know, blow the door or kick the
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door in or something like that.
22:36
They're using the element of surprise to their advantage, right?
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The same thing is true here.
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Now I understand and I think there is something to be said about no knock warrants because
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if somebody kicks the door into my house, I'm shooting, right?
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I'm not waiting to see if I see a badge, right?
22:52
But people are saying that they served a no knock warrant as if it's the warrant that
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was somehow the enemy and part of the systemic racist white system, but they didn't serve
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a no knock warrant because we have evidence and we have witness testimony saying that there
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was a knock on the door, that they heard the police knocking and they heard the police
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say police.
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They heard them say that.
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So that is not true.
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Number three, Brown and Taylor was alone when she died.
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Obviously she wasn't.
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She was in the same bed with her boyfriend and they, uh, the shooting went on in a hallway.
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So no, she was not alone.
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Number four, Brown and Taylor was asleep in her bed when she was shot.
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Again, I think this is the emotional appeal that again, these, these black, uh, or these
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white police officers knew that there was a black person alone inside this apartment
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and they were just going to kick in and shoot them no matter what, because they were white
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and she was black.
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That wasn't the case.
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She was not just peacefully sleeping, having sweet dreams when she was shot.
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Okay.
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That's not the case.
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Number five, the police officer that was shot was shot by friendly fire.
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No, she was shot or the police officer was shot.
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He was shot by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend.
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The last one, Breonna Taylor is completely innocent in this case.
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So I got to be careful here because there's a lot of things that we don't know.
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But here's the thing is we do have tapes from, from prison, from these prison conversations
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that suggests that Breonna Taylor was part of this drug dealing operation or at the very
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least she was aware that it was happening because you got to just be logical here, right?
24:08
She basically has a boyfriend that is running a decently, uh, you know, intricate drug operation,
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using her address, using some of her vehicles, using her apartment and somehow she doesn't
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know about it.
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It's possible, but you had to ask yourself, is it plausible?
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Is it plausible that she had no clue what was going on?
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But again, we don't know that for sure.
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So logic tells me that she had to know something, not that her knowing meant that she deserved
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death.
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Like I would never say something like that, but to assume that she is completely innocent
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in this case and that there was no reason for the police officers to even be at her apartment
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is absurd.
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Many of evidence to know that her apartment at the very least was part of this drug operation,
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even though they didn't find drugs there or money there at that time.
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Okay.
24:58
So again, don't hear what I'm not saying.
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I'm not saying Brianna Taylor is responsible for her death.
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We have other examples this summer of people that are responsible for their own death.
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The latest one, you know, Jacob Blake, he's responsible for his own death because of his
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actions.
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I don't think that Brianna Taylor is dead today because of her actions, not really at
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all, but to say that she's completely innocent in this case that she was just, you know, some
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nurse that worked all these hours and was just a completely, you know, innocent of all
25:22
things and just pure as a driven snow, I just don't believe that that's true.
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I don't believe that the evidence points to that.
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But the thing is, and there's a lot of things to think about in this case and as with any
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of these cases, there's a lot of things for us to chew on, but there are a lot of things
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that that seem clear in the Brianna Taylor case and the Brianna Taylor case rather, Brianna
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Taylor is a victim of a tragedy here, but not a murder.
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I mean, that's pretty clear because, again, it's tragic that she's dead, right?
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Because of the no knock warrant, I don't think that her boyfriend had any ill will towards
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these cops or tried to kill these cops.
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You know, obviously he shot one, but he was shooting in the dark and, you know, I give
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that guy a lot of grace here because I haven't seen any evidence that he had any animus towards
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these cops or that he was part of the drug smuggling ring or any of those things, right?
26:08
It's a very tragic situation and Brianna Taylor should not be dead today, but she is, but
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it's not a murder.
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The next thing that seems pretty clear is that it's fair to criticize no knock warrants,
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right?
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There's been a lot of people talking about no knock warrants and it's for the same reason
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that I talked about earlier, I can see the utility of this for police officers.
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I can absolutely see the utility.
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However, I see the danger for police officers and the danger versus the citizenry because,
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again, if somebody kicks my door down, I'm not going to ask questions first, like, especially
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if it's in the middle of night, if it's right after midnight and I just got startled awake,
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I'm grabbing my gun and I'm going to work.
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Like that's just the reality of it.
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So I think it's fair to have a conversation about no knock warrants, but you shouldn't
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tie it to some sort of systemic racist problem with the police officers.
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That doesn't make any sense.
26:53
Another thing that seems pretty clear is that people clearly don't understand the line
26:57
between homicide murder or the difference between the two.
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So homicide is a description of a person taking the life of another person.
27:05
So that includes that happening legally and illegally, right?
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Murder is illegal homicide, right?
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It's the taking of someone's life illegally.
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In this case, again, you have to show me where did this, you know, cross the line in the
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murder from homicide in the murder.
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People don't seem to understand the difference.
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There's a vast difference.
27:26
Another thing that seems clear is that people don't understand the difference between civil
27:29
cases and criminal cases.
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Okay.
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So if you've been following along with this case earlier this summer, the family, Breonna
27:36
Taylor, one in civil court, they got a settlement form from the city of Louisville and the police
27:40
department for around $12 million for a wrongful death, right?
27:44
So that was in the civil side of things.
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And so some people really ignorantly thought that this would carry over into the criminal
27:50
side and somehow since they won this ruling on the civil side, that there would be criminal
27:55
liability here as well.
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But those are not the same thing.
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You can be guilty civilly and not criminally.
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Like that's pretty basic stuff, but apparently people don't understand that.
28:05
Another thing that's pretty clear here is that these riots aren't spontaneous.
28:08
They're orchestrated because duh.
28:10
Again, the U-Haul thing is part of that.
28:12
These people were, I mean, the city of Louisville was already declared a state of mercy.
28:17
I told you guys that earlier this week, before they, before they were releasing this, they
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knew what they were going to be releasing.
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And people were ready.
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The police was ready.
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The city was ready.
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So was Black Lives Matter.
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So was Antifa.
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These aren't spontaneous uprisings of anger, right?
28:31
This just over pouring and outpouring of anger.
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That's not real.
28:34
That's not what's happening.
28:35
The next thing that's pretty clear is that we seem to live in a post truth culture already.
28:41
There's a lot of people talking about, huh, you know, we're trending towards a post truth
28:44
culture where truth doesn't matter.
28:45
It's all about narrative.
28:46
Guys, we're there.
28:47
I mean, this is just another, this isn't another case of a Black person being killed
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by racist white cops.
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This is another case of someone dying and it not being or having anything to do with
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racism or really cops in general.
29:03
Like it's just another one of those things that the truth of the case doesn't matter
29:06
to a lot of people.
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It just doesn't.
29:09
Another thing that seems perfectly clear is that justice, amusing air quotes, doesn't
29:13
actually mean justice to Black Lives Matter and their supporters.
29:16
It doesn't.
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Because justice to some people means first degree murder charges every time a Black person
29:22
is killed by a white police officer.
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That's justice to some people.
29:26
And justice to some other people means that we should ignore justice and truth for some
29:30
in order to even the score for others, right?
29:33
So in this case, people wanted first degree murder charges for all three of these police
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officers.
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And the thing is, is they're telling us that would be justice.
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But of course they don't mean that.
29:45
Because let's say they were indicted on charges of first degree murder, well, then they also
29:50
need to be convicted.
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Because if they're found not guilty, then that's injustice again, right?
29:55
But let's say they were indicted on first degree murder charges and then they were convicted
29:58
on first degree murder charges and then they weren't given a life sentence without parole
30:02
or the death penalty.
30:03
I'm not even sure if Kentucky's a death penalty state.
30:05
I would assume that they are.
30:07
But let's say that they didn't get the death penalty for a lot of people that would still
30:10
be injustice, right?
30:12
For a lot of these people, you have to ask them at what point will you stop rioting?
30:16
Because you know, at what point of what charges or what outcome would you want for this to
30:19
be a score that's been even?
30:21
But guess what?
30:22
You don't get justice for Breonna Taylor by providing a tremendous injustice to the three
30:26
other officers involved.
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Those are people too.
30:29
Those people have families too.
30:30
And if they've done wrong and if they've done criminal wrong, then absolutely they should
30:34
go down for that.
30:35
But we just don't see that here in this case.
30:38
And the last thing here that is abundantly clear with this case, abundantly clear, is
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there is no evidence that this homicide has anything whatsoever to do with race.
30:49
The races of the cops and the race of Breonna Taylor have nothing to do in this case, nothing.
30:56
Because again, if you're going to make the statement that this was a racist killing,
31:01
the burden proof is on you.
31:03
You've got to show me the receipts, provide me the receipts, and you don't have them.
31:08
And guess what?
31:09
We still don't have any evidence of that with Jacob Blake or Michael Brown or Richard Brooks
31:14
or George Floyd or anybody else that you might mention.
31:17
It has nothing to do with it because again, and I said this on the last time I said this
31:22
on part four in the race in America series, guys, Black Lives Matter needs to pick their
31:26
martyrs better because Jacob Blake is one of their martyrs right now.
31:29
Yeah, the guy that was fighting cops and then walking over to his car, presumably to pick
31:34
up a knife to fight the cops with.
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Sorry.
31:36
He's not a good martyr.
31:37
Michael Brown, hands up to one.
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Don't shoot.
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That wasn't a real thing.
31:40
He was on his way to hurt the cop that he had already punched and tried to steal his
31:43
gun when he was shot for his trouble.
31:45
Richard Brooks was fighting two cops, was turning around trying to taste one when he
31:48
was shot.
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George Floyd.
31:50
Again, that's a unique situation.
31:51
I talked about it a lot in the first three parts of this race in America series.
31:55
And again, the new evidence of the fact that he had enough fentanyl in his system to kill
31:58
a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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I think that that's relevant here, especially because of how he died.
32:03
He said he was having trouble breathing before Derek Chauvin put his knee on his neck.
32:06
Again, I don't absolve Derek Chauvin of anything of anything.
32:10
I don't think he's guilty of murder by by any stretch of the imagination, perhaps manslaughter.
32:15
But again, he's considered a martyr.
32:17
Now, Brianna Taylor, because again, this is a tragic death, but it's not a racially
32:22
tinged death, right? That has nothing to do with this case.
32:26
And in the last episode, I talked about, you know, bring me anyone that looks like Medgar
32:30
Evers.
32:31
But then even in the time since I recorded that, I thought about Philando Castile, right?
32:35
So for those of you that maybe recognize a name, let me just kind of remind you, he was
32:38
pulled over to the side of the road.
32:40
His girlfriend was in the passenger seat and during the police stop, he did exactly what
32:44
you're supposed to do with a police officer, exactly what you're supposed to do.
32:47
He said, sir, I've got a firearm on me right now, just to let you know, I'm legally able
32:52
to carry this.
32:53
And then go watch the video, guys.
32:55
The police officer just absolutely freaks out.
32:57
He thinks that Philando Castile is reaching for his weapon, which we have no evidence to
33:00
believe that that was the case, and he ends up shooting Philando Castile.
33:04
He shot him.
33:05
I think he shot seven times in five of those times.
33:06
He actually struck Philando Castile.
33:08
It was an absolutely tragic situation.
33:10
And to be honest, when I go back and watch the video, I just watch it again before recording.
33:14
His girlfriend was unbelievably calm.
33:16
She was Facebook live.
33:17
What had happened, she basically Facebook live, her boyfriend dying, and she was complying
33:23
or, you know, just doing the things that the cops said and said, yes, yes, sir, no, sir.
33:28
And it was amazing that the, I don't know, the inner tenacity that she had in that moment,
33:33
just to remain calm, even though she was kind of freaking out inside.
33:36
But again, he was shot by a Latino guy.
33:40
And so the reason why we don't hear about Philando Castile when people mentioned Jacob
33:43
Blake, Michael Brown over Chard Brooks and George Floyd, and now Brianna Taylor is because
33:46
it doesn't fit the narrative, guys.
33:49
Because Philando Castile was shot by a Latino guy, not a white guy.
33:54
Because it's those dang pesky white guys that keep killing black people, right?
33:58
That's the narrative.
33:59
Again, narrative wins out over everything.
34:01
We know that to be the case now.
34:04
But here again, guys, as Christians, as Christian men, we 100% should be about justice, real
34:13
justice.
34:14
We should be concerned about that.
34:16
We should be on a search for things like that.
34:20
But you have to think about this through the worldview that is being perpetrated by most
34:25
people are propagated by most people in the United States now.
34:27
And that's a secular worldview, a humanist worldview, in a lot of ways, an atheistic
34:32
worldview, because those worldviews can't provide real justice or final justice.
34:39
But the Christian worldview can, and I'm reminded of Romans 1219, beloved, never avenge
34:44
yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God for it is written, vengeance is mine, I will
34:49
repay says the Lord.
34:52
You don't get that with the secular worldview, the humanistic worldview.
34:56
You don't get that.
34:58
That's why Marxism fills the gap for a lot of these people.
35:03
Marxism and then critical race theory and gender theory and all these other different
35:07
things that are causing a lot of this craziness that we're seeing right now in society.
35:12
It's because there's no foundation.
35:14
And so people are making one up.
35:17
And when you're looking for justice and you have no God, you have no arbitrator of perfect
35:24
justice, you have to create justice yourself.
35:28
And you think that you can, that's the other part of it.
35:33
You think that you can just, you know, say a few things or yell a few things or tear down
35:37
a few things.
35:38
And all of a sudden we will have perfect justice.
35:41
But as men of God, we know that that's not the case.
35:44
We know that that's not how this works.
35:46
And it is our job.
35:48
It is our job as disciples of Jesus Christ to make sure that people understand what real
35:53
justice is and that justice is God's alone.
35:56
And guys, it starts in your family.
35:58
So again, for me, whenever my wife said something tonight that was factually inaccurate, it wasn't
36:03
my time to chastise her.
36:04
It was my time to inform her, right?
36:06
And so I did.
36:07
I gave her the shortened version of this podcast essentially and let her know what was going
36:11
on.
36:12
And my wife's not the type of person that's now going to take that information and go flame
36:15
people on Facebook.
36:16
Like she's got a whole lot better things to do than worry about that, especially right
36:18
now.
36:19
But again, it starts in the home.
36:21
If James was older and he was experiencing this and people were talking about this at
36:24
school, this would be one of those things where I would ask him what he thinks about
36:27
the case and what he thinks the facts are and then we would go over those things and
36:31
talk about it.
36:32
Because if we're going to leave, if we're going to live in a culture, you know, I guess Freudian
36:36
Flip there, if we're going to live in a culture that that values truth, we have to constantly
36:41
look for it and make sure that we can verify things that are true.
36:46
And guys, we're not always going to be able to verify perfect truth in a lot of these
36:49
situations because there's there's always narrative built into everything, just about
36:53
everything.
36:54
But it's the best that we can do to search for truth in most of these cases.
36:58
So guys, that's my encouragement to you.
37:00
Again, there's probably going to be another, there's going to be a part six of this at
37:03
some point, and the thing about it is is it's likely going to be another thing where we're
37:08
getting a narrative and we're not actually getting the truth.
37:10
So please keep searching for it.
37:12
All right, guys, before we let you go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost.
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So for today, I've got two links for you.
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One, I've got the link to the Louisville career journal that is Brianna Taylor shooting a minute
37:29
by minute timeline of events that led to her death.
37:32
So that's stuff that I read from the top of the show.
37:34
And then I've got a YouTube video and this is the attorney general of the state of Kentucky
37:38
and he's basically talking about it was the stuff that I showed you earlier.
37:42
So he's talking about he wants people to be calm and that there were no officers that
37:46
were going to be directly charged and kind of his message.
37:48
I thought it was great.
37:49
I think you should actually see him say that because I think he's a very, very impressive
37:52
guy.
37:53
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