PoppaJ
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These people are thoroughly broken, yet I can't muster an ounce of sympathy for them.
The red hat is the MAGA stiff arm salute.
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The red hat is the MAGA stiff arm salute.
Bob Wells
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Yeah, maybe should have done that on January 6th. Not buying he is doing anything positive at this point.
Lake View Too
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I think you may be missing the point of that story about Trump "reaching out " to the DOJ. He is basically saying "if you go easy on your attempts to prosecute me, THEN I will call off my thugs". Basic Mafia style bargaining. By thugs I am referring to the legions of low info white male bigots that have been indoctrinated by his rhetoric willfully disseminated by all right-wing media.
Bob Wells
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Thanks, I obviously missed it.
Leader of the Banned
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I agree. He is saying that he has control of the mob, and I think it's rather incriminating. It could be taken as an admission that he incited the Jan 6 mob, and could have calmed them down a lot sooner than he did.
Leader of the Banned
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Yes, but I also think it implies that he thinks could have quieted the mob sooner on Jan 6. I think it's doubly incriminating. Statements like this will not help him with the Jan 6 investigation in my opinion.
Leader of the Banned
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I think of it as the Hitler moustache. At one time, you wouldn't hesitate to grow one. Some time in the 30s, it would be unthinkable. That's how I feel about wearing a red baseball hat of any kind.
UofL
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There is some progress in bringing her murderers to justice. DOJ is in charge now instead of the MAGA/ky AG/McMitch protégée, who is an African American who lives in Louisville. The LMPD chief is from Atlanta who appears to be doing a decent job compared to the men we've had. We will have a new mayor next year. Planned Parenthood recently supported the democratic candidate, guess who the police union supported. The small city within Louisville republican candidate did not run a MAGA primary campaign, so we're hopeful, that will continue in the fall. Would love to hear him disown MAGA. Ellen
Update from Louisville Courier Journal today:
More than two years after the killing of Breonna Taylor, a fourth Louisville Metro Police officer has been fired in connection with the March 2020 raid on her apartment.
Sgt. Kyle Meany, who joined the department in 2013, was terminated after meeting with Chief Erika Shields, the department announced Friday. The termination comes two weeks after Meany and three other former officers were indicted by a federal grand jury on various charges, largely relating to the search warrant that allowed officers to break in to Taylor’s apartment.
“I made the decision to terminate Sgt. Kyle Meany after careful consideration and not with ease,” Shields said in a statement provided Friday through an LMPD spokeswoman. “I fully respect the judicial process and realize Sergeant Meany has yet to be heard before a jury of his peers. That being said, he is facing multiple federal charges after a lengthy investigation by the DOJ. As an employer, the character of our organization is paramount and it is not reasonable to expect continued employment under such conditions.”
Why Meany was fired
Meany is accused of knowing the affidavit used to obtain the warrant was based on false information. His attorney, Brian Butler, said he is “not going to comment on any aspect of this case.”
“Your actions have brought discredit upon yourself and the department,” Shields wrote in a letter to Meany to begin the termination process last week. The letter cited his federal case as grounds for dismissal for violating LMPD’s policy regarding “Obedience to Rules and Regulations.”
“Your conduct has adversely affected the morale, operations and/or efficiency of the department,” Shields also wrote, using standard language sometimes used in termination letters for other LMPD personnel. “… Your conduct has severely damaged the image of our department within the community.”
Meany can appeal his termination to the Police Merit Board, which has a track record of rarely overturning firing decisions. Meany supervised the sincedisbanded Place-Based Investigations unit, which had secured the warrant for Taylor’s home along with four others as part of a larger narcotics investigation. Each warrant included “no-knock” clauses.
Meany has pleaded not guilty after being indicted on federal charges of deprivation of rights and giving a false statement to federal investigators.
The indictment alleges that Meany knew the affidavit used to get a warrant to search Taylor’s home included false, misleading and out-of-date information. He approved the warrant despite this knowledge and despite knowing the warrant would be executed by other officers, creating a dangerous situation, the indictment says.
His second charge of providing false information is related to the entry of Taylor’s home. Meany allegedly told FBI investigators that the police department’s SWAT unit had asked for noknock authority, when no such request had been made. After the federal indictments, LMPD announced the department had started the termination process for Meany and Detective Kelly Ann Goodlett, who retired the following day.
Meany is the fourth officer to be fired in relation to Taylor’s case.
Which LMPD officers have been fired after Breonna Taylor’s killing?
Former Detective Brett Hankison was the first to be fired by the department in June 2020.
He had worked for the department for about 17 years when he fired 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment through a covered glass door and window during the raid. Three of those rounds traveled into an adjacent apartment with a man, pregnant woman and 5-year-old child inside, and he was subsequently charged with three counts of wanton endangerment by a state grand jury.
He was fired after a former interim chief called the rounds he shot “a shock to the conscience.” He appealed his firing to the Police Merit Board, but the appeal hearing was set aside until criminal proceedings concluded. He was found not guilty of those charges in March 2022 but is now facing the federal charges. He shot into the neighboring apartment, “without a lawful objective justifying the use of deadly force,” said Kristin Clarke, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said during a news conference last week alongside U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in Washington, D.C.
In January 2021, two more officers were fired. Myles Cosgrove was fired by former interim Chief Yvette Gentry for failing to “properly identify a target” when he shot 16 times into Taylor’s apartment. He also failed to use a body camera during the raid. He has filed a lawsuit appealing his termination.
He has not been charged criminally in relation to the case. Taylor was shot six times during the raid and Cosgrove fired the fatal bullet to her chest, according to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s investigation.
Former Detective Joshua Jaynes also was fired in January 2021 for inserting what former interim police Chief Yvette Gentry found to be an untruthful statement in his sworn affidavit for the warrant to search Taylor’s apartment.
The federal charges against him include deprivation of rights, conspiracy and falsification of records in an FBI investigation. The indictment accuses Jayne of depriving Taylor of her constitutional rights by knowingly including false, misleading and out-of-date information in the affidavit used to obtain the warrant to search her home. Additionally, the affidavit in support of the search warrant omitted material information, and officers lacked probable cause for the search, according to the indictment.
The indictment alleges that after the raid, he continued his attempts to cover up his lies by conspiring with another detective and pressuring other officers to support his story.
His third federal charge is that he continued reiterating this false information in an official investigative letter given to investigators on May 1, 2020.
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PoppaJ
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Words have consequences.
Words have impact.
Incitement should be punished.
Remember In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the film actress Sharon Tate. The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy.
Words have impact.
Incitement should be punished.
Remember In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the film actress Sharon Tate. The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy.
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