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Federal prosecutors seek to dismiss charges against Louisville officers in Breonna Taylor’s killing

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https://apnews.com/article/breonna-taylor-shooting-charges-dropped-da7af3049b7eb8a24c1333e0be3c1788
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RoswellRedux Mar 20, 2026 +422
DOJ protecting mortal violence against citizens. It doesn't get any more evil than that.
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Scoobert_Doobert_I Mar 20, 2026 +55
you gotta read more it's been more evil than that since forever
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Dry-Bread9131 Mar 20, 2026 +40
Aww bless your sweet innocent mind. I guarantee you it can get way more evil than that.
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leeuwerik Mar 20, 2026 -8
why are you so pedantic?
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Dry-Bread9131 Mar 20, 2026 +4
I dont know... there's probably something wrong with me
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Fancy_Possibility456 Mar 20, 2026 +444
The rule of law is not a thing in this country anymore
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supercyberlurker Mar 20, 2026 +149
Rules for us. Not for them. Until the fools simping for fascists & billionaires wake up from denial & delusion, it'll be like that.
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Zombie_Cool Mar 20, 2026 +35
So never. The dream of being innately better than your fellow man is simply too addicting for some to ever relinquish. 
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PotroastXII Mar 20, 2026 +85
It never was for black and brown people
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Richard_Sauce Mar 20, 2026 +29
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) \-Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again
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PreparationKey2843 Mar 20, 2026 +19
There's no justice in the current Dept of "Justice." None, it's just racism, bigotry, and vindictivness.
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Obvious_Toe_3006 Mar 20, 2026 +10
Dept. Of Just US.
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mynamejeff-97 Mar 20, 2026 +6
It absolutely is for democrats, people of color, the LGBTQ community and really just mostly anyone who isn’t an obscenely wealthy white conservative.
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OneToothMcGee Mar 20, 2026 +3
We’re not a country anymore. It’s obvious the United States is in its death throes and we just haven’t figured it out yet.
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dformed Mar 20, 2026
Republicans are openly disdainful of the Rule of Law. When they talk about "law and order" they mean Rule BY Law, using illegal orders and unconstitutional laws to target their enemies. That's how they get what they see as "order," with everyone staying "in their place."
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Upstairs-Inspection3 Mar 20, 2026 -64
choose better company interacting with criminals only brings trouble. she rented a car and let her ex use it, and he left a dead man in it
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techman710 Mar 20, 2026 +29
Epstein was Trumps best friend, should he suffer the same fate?
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Norseman901 Mar 20, 2026 +8
Unironically yes
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Upstairs-Inspection3 Mar 20, 2026 -47
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship\_of\_Donald\_Trump\_and\_Jeffrey\_Epstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein) > In a 2011 email to his accomplice [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell), Epstein said that Trump had spent hours at his house with [Virginia Giuffre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Giuffre) and that Trump was "the dog that didn't bark".[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein#cite_note-Gold-2025-5)[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein#cite_note-6)[^(\[7\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein#cite_note-7) Although Giuffre revealed that Epstein and Maxwell had recruited her from Mar-a-Lago into a [sex trafficking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking) ring, she did not accuse Trump himself of wrongdoing. Maxwell claimed in 2025 that Trump was not a "close friend" of Epstein, contradicting Epstein's previous statements, and that she never witnessed Trump behave inappropriately.  [Michael Reiter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reiter), the Palm Beach police chief at the time, said during a 2019 FBI interview that Trump called him in July 2006 and thanked him for "stopping \[Epstein\]", as "everyone has known he's been doing this". According to a 2020 book, after Epstein was said to have sexually harassed a teenage daughter of another Mar-a-Lago member in 2007, Trump revoked his Mar-a-Lago membership yeah, if you show me some evidence. renting a car for a murderer is pretty on the nose
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DaydreamingOfSleep10 Mar 20, 2026 +26
Did you really use Maxwell’s 2025 “get me out of this max security prison” performance as a quote that holds any water whatsoever?
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hankhillsvoice Mar 20, 2026 +19
So she deserves the death penalty for that? I mean come on dude. The point isn’t what she did, it’s that it’s pretty obvious what the cops did at the time they killed Breonna was wrong and extremely bad law enforcement practice. A search warrant doesn’t give you carte blanche to kill everyone inside. SWAT teams that break into cartel houses don’t kill all the kidnapping victims too. If they did they’d probably be prosecuted.
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Upstairs-Inspection3 Mar 20, 2026 -52
you reap what you sow she was complicit in another mans murder and was complicit in the ex's other crimes. thats like walking down a shitty side of memphis and becoming the victim of a crime have some semblance of self-preservation. did she legally deserve to die? no, but im not going to feel bad for someone because they lacked the common sense to not engage with criminals
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Count_Backwards Mar 20, 2026 +23
And yet you support Trump
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hankhillsvoice Mar 20, 2026 +10
So the person who commits a crime against someone minding their own business in the wrong side of Memphis shouldn’t be prosecuted? That’s your logic. “Well they were in the wrong side of town and despite the fact that that is legal, the assailant was right to, say, kill them and should not hold any responsibility legally” much like the officers involved in killing Breonna. That’s what you are defending. Man I would hate to live in your world. No. In fact we should prosecute those people who wrongfully kill, even in instances where the person they killed ever did anything wrong in their life. Just like how we prosecute cops who wrongfully search people’s property even if they had an illegal item or substance. Often times the case against the person is completely thrown out when there is no probable cause. This article isn’t even about Breonna Taylor and her being a saint, it’s about the police improperly conducting a search and killing someone as a result. You are just coming in here to say ‘but she was bad and deserved it’ for pretty much no reason. Other folks in this thread are against the dismissal because, I’m guessing, we all believe there should be consequences for being a bad cop and it resulting in unnecessary death. If you are pro-police existing and being effective you’d be for the prosecution of ineffective cops.
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Upstairs-Inspection3 Mar 20, 2026 -2
the difference is, the victim wasnt involved in the memphis scenario breanna was clearly complicit, just didnt have hard evidence
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Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 20, 2026 +141
Why is the DOJ involving themselves in a state case?
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chownrootroot Mar 20, 2026 +83
This is the federal case against 2 of the officers (Jaynes and Meany) who were not present but wrongly sought the warrant. They already got a guilty plea from another officer who sought the warrant (Goodlett), who hasn't been sentenced yet. An officer who did shoot has already been convicted and sentenced (Hankison), but bad news, it was federal, so he along with Goodlett can get a pardon or commutation from you know who. The state tried Hankison and got a not guilty verdict, so the whole thing's fucked if you know who pardons or commutes those 2. Hankison got 2.75 years of prison and 3 years of supervised release which isn't much to be honest.
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EmergencyCucumber905 Mar 20, 2026 +8
> An officer who did shoot has already been convicted and sentenced (Hankison) Just to clarify, Hankison shot but his bullets didn't hit anyone. He wasn't the one who killed Breonna Taylor.
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Numerous_Photograph9 Mar 20, 2026 +18
Damn...I really didn't pay attention to these cases then. I think I only ever read about the one conviction, and I always just thought it was a state case. Thanks for laying it out there more clearly.
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lafolieisgood Mar 20, 2026 +5
This is a hot take but imo the issue should have always been against the officers who sought the warrant and the judge who signed it and not so much with the officers who served it. That was the crux of the case. The bad warrant that led to everything.
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Tuesday_6PM Mar 21, 2026 +5
Both are at fault. The police conducted themselves poorly on the scene as well
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lafolieisgood Mar 21, 2026 -1
I mean, they did get shot at
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LadyTalah Mar 20, 2026 +50
Because the party of small government is in power. Oh. Wait.
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jimtow28 Mar 20, 2026 +4
Hey, they think state's rights are VERY important* *provided the state uses their rights to do something I approve of
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Due_Night414 Mar 20, 2026 +61
They didn’t get their violent protests from brown people through ice actions. Now they’re doubling back to see if can get the results they want from black folks. Only reason I can logically see with this regime for a state case trying to be overturned on a federal level. Edit: more of the same with this regime. Trying to distract and steal another election. They’re screwed at midterms. Several have gone on record to say they’re in prison if they lose midterms. Trying to make it so midterms don’t happen.
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Far_Radish7752 Mar 20, 2026 +41
From the AP News article: >LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to dismiss the charges against two Louisville officers accused of falsifying the warrant that led police to raid Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed six years ago. >Prosecutors said in a court filing Friday that their review of the case showed the charges against former Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany should be “dismissed in the interest of justice.” >Lawyers for the two didn’t immediately respond to Friday requests for comment. >Judges have twice taken a felony charge against each officer and reduced it to a misdemeanor, saying there wasn’t a direct link between the false information and Taylor’s death. Prosecutors said after the second ruling that they decided to drop the cases. >Taylor was shot to death by police when they broke down the door of her apartment while serving a no-knock drug warrant looking for a former boyfriend who no longer lived there. >Taylor’s boyfriend at the time fired at the officers, and Taylor was killed as police fired back. >Federal prosecutors under former President Joe Biden sought the charges against the officers, while President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has asked the only officer serving prison time related to Taylor’s killing to be let out of prison while he appeals his conviction. Just. Absolutely. Sickening.
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roadsidefoto Mar 20, 2026 +18
"Dismissed in the interest of justice." The party of law and order, folks.
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KingBretwald Mar 20, 2026 +26
"The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone." "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Frank Wilhoit
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Admirable-Sink-2622 Mar 20, 2026 +14
So far, the message is, it’s ok to shoot brown people, and white people if they’re liberal. You people live in a cesspool of Nazis.
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Onigato Mar 20, 2026 +3
Ah, it's not like that. The Nazi party learned it from us first. We're the OG, and just bringing back the old ways. F***, I hate this timeline, I hate this administration, I hate this f****** travesty of a social order, and I hate that some people are going to see the top two lines of this comment and think that I endorse this fuckery.
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doneandtired2014 Mar 21, 2026 +1
>far, the message is, it’s ok to shoot brown people, and white people if they’re liberal. Pretty much, yeah. That's always been the case but the admin, its sycophants on law enforcement, and the absolutely f****** detestable gutter trash that support them have opted to make it something to openly celebrate. A little under half of the people in this dying shithole of a superpower are irredeemable filth and the world would be a genuinely better place if just half their abjectly stupid, proudly cruel, selfish, narcissistic a****** selves were cooked into irradiated piles of rotting meat where they stand by a gamma ray burst.
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Rmicheal1717 Mar 20, 2026 +15
This is insane…. I mean it’s always been amerikkka but like rule of law, protection of citizens, police serving and protecting, fair court, just doesn’t seem to exist or be the reality anymore.
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Muffled_Incinerator Mar 20, 2026 +6
Breonna Taylor, murdered by police in her sleep while conducting a completely unnecessary no-knock warrant -- was the warning sign. Nicol Goode and Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE on the streets of Minneapolis, are what happens what we allow unchecked police power to continue to accumulate in the hands of those who deserve it least. What comes next one can only imagine, but the fact that we're not all out in the streets DEMANDING that Trump, Noem, Bovino, and everyone involved in the Pretti/Goode/Taylor MURDERS are brougth to justice is insane. I know we're all a paycheck or two from poverty, but at a certain point, resistance becomes the only rational path. F*** the fascist Republican cult, and all their apologist and enablers, everywhere they hide
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babsrambler Mar 20, 2026 +8
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all land-owning white males are created equal…everybody else? It so much
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MSERRADAred Mar 20, 2026 +4
Unless you're a white male with a gun protesting in Texas, then another white male in a car can shoot you because he's a coward or went looking to bag him a liberal. In that case, you're all fine.
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Thetruthislikepoetry Mar 20, 2026
All people are created equal, Some are just more equal than others
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AhBee1 Mar 20, 2026 +7
If the law doesn't apply to the enforcers, it doesn't apply to anyone.
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JerryDipotosBurner Mar 20, 2026 +8
If anyone is keeping score, does this mean literally nobody has faced any legal consequences for this entire situation, or did I miss something? This is disgusting.
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Lcatg Mar 20, 2026 +6
What that actual f***.
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LauraPalmerOnlyFans Mar 20, 2026 +6
So it’s just legal for the police to break into your house and murder you now?
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imthepipe Mar 21, 2026 +3
The OPOS seems to hate anything that involves white people being held accountable for assaults against blacks. More evidence he's a dyed in the wool racist.
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-OptimisticNihilism- Mar 20, 2026 +2
Future Headline: Brianna Taylor’s shooters working for ICE.
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Hceverhartt Mar 20, 2026 +4
It's been six years! Justice is slow as f***, or probably in this case non existent
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johnn48 Mar 20, 2026 +4
>The city paid a $12 million wrongful death settlement to Taylor’s family. The city paid a wrongful death settlement, clearly indicating that her death was a result of wrongful actions of the Police Department. Meanwhile the Federal prosecutors determined there was no wrongdoing by the Police Department and the Officers should not bear any responsibility for her death. Historically the Federal Government has remedied the unlawful actions of State and Local Governments. This has been reversed by this Administration.
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Ravenna-23 Mar 20, 2026 +3
Maggots can’t handle the truth! MAGA thinks they can change past. People never forget the vile, nasty pathetic amongst us. MAGA may try to re-write to fit their nasty racist agenda. Always remember and never forget, real Americans show courage, take responsibility for their actions, do not shirk community and defend the constitution. It takes courage to walk to talk. Lies are for the weak and people who lack strength conviction and conscientious. These men killed woman because they did not follow protocol and used a fire arm without discretion.. that is a crime Can’t change the truth
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SUP3RMUNCh Mar 20, 2026 -3
The truth is changed constantly and eventually all of it is glazed over and lost. All history is subject to editing and this is just one of many examples that will be forgotten in a few years only to be brought up in passing
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Sedert1882 Mar 20, 2026 +2
There is a direct correlation between the police falsifying the warrant and her ensuing murder. This DOJ is corrupt.
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Y0___0Y Mar 20, 2026
This administration wants to kill anyone they perceive as a liberal.
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kitkatkorgi Mar 20, 2026 +1
How much more innocent can a victim be???? Grrrrrrrrrtr
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Stereo_Jungle_Child Mar 20, 2026 -14
All the people who shot each other at the series of anti-police/pro-Breonna Taylor marches are still in jail. That's one aspect of this story that you don't hear a lot about. All the anti-police violence protesters who shot each other at these protests. Obviously, they were only against "police violence".
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