Saturday, September 26, 2020

Breonna Taylor: The Legend and the Lie - Bookworm Room

Breonna Taylor: The Legend and the Lie - Bookworm Room
  • Everything on which BLM is based is founded on lies and falsehoods — not the least of which is their portrayal of the Breonna Taylor case.
The truth has finally emerged about Breonna Taylor’s death this past March. It turns out (surprise!) that the Democrat party – in Congress, in the media, and on the streets – has been lying. Taylor was not a complete innocent whom racist police slaughtered in her bed during a no-knock raid. Instead, she was the victim of her poor choices in men: Her friendship with a local drug kingpin justified the raid and her boyfriend’s decision to open fire on police who had knocked and identified themselves led to her shooting. That certainly doesn’t mean she deserved to die, but it explains why she did.
Andrea Widburg, American Thinker (and if you are not reading Ms. Widburg daily — she writes four or more posts each morning in the right-hand column of American Thinker — you are doing yourself a disservice.)  That is the pithy version of it all.
Andy McCarthy at NRO provides an extended version:
Much of what we’ve been told about the case turns out not to be true — another “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” urban legend of police brutality. Most prominently, Attorney General Cameron explained that the police did not execute a “no knock” warrant before entering Ms. Taylor’s apartment. They knocked and announced themselves as police before forcing entry shortly after midnight.
How they came to be at Ms. Taylor’s home, with a search warrant based on probable cause that evidence of narcotics crimes would be found, is the part of the story the social-justice warriors would have us omit. It needs telling...Read all

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