‘Murdered In His Own Home’: Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home and Kill Innocent Man Over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater Despite Receiving the Correct Address At Least Five Times
‘Murdered In His Own Home’: Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home and Kill Innocent Man Over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater Despite Receiving the Correct Address At Least Five Times
Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the
Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the cops to raid the wrong home and kill the man inside.
But the man who police say admitted to stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge had already been in custody prior to the deadly raid that took place minutes before midnight last month, according to WLEX. That man told police he had stored the stolen Weed Eater at a home at 489 Vanzant Road which is a rural area outside of London city limits.
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Check to see if there's a development looking to buy all the land in that area. You know. Like the last time police did this, and it got buried for years until public outcry made the legal system reluctantly look into and find out there were very rich people who wanted the home of Brianna Taylor, and got it for what $1.00 after she was murdered in her bed by a cop who snuck behind the house to her bedroom and opened fire.
I found an article verifying the price, but do you have a source that connects the rest of the dots? I'm shocked (not that shocked) this isn't on screaming front page headlines
I found these articles with a little more information.
Good stuff, key point from the BI article:
Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, head of the city's economic development foundation Louisville Forward, the city's economic development organization, told local news channel Wave 3 that the updated lawsuit "is a gross mischaracterization of the project," and said that the foundation had worked with community organizations throughout. She added that the foundation is discussing the creation of a community land trust "to ensure investment without displacement."
And yet I found more using a search of "Place Based Investigations " as the main keyword: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/metro-government/2020/07/24/breonna-taylor-shooting-what-know-police-unit-linked-case/5443452002/
it was revealed that the "no-knock" warrant police used to force their way into Taylor's apartment, leading to her death, was obtained by a member of the Place-Based Investigative team.
The dots are connected enough for me. PBI obtained the no-knock, likely on Wiederwohl's initiative. Further lead: https://www.acceleratorforamerica.org/who-we-are/
Can we get this to the front page of lemmy? Brianna's story is one of injustice and this is more proof of what these cretins are able to do in broad daylight.
Yeah the alerts to police that led to the warrant were from the team working on the project inside the police department or something? It's so ugly and obvious it really bothers me that I'm sure no one will ever face a single consequence. Just like always. The law is apparently totally incapable of even bothering those that have vs those that have not.