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jonne ,

In the ruling, Judge Simpson said that Taylor’s cause of death was due to a gunshot fired by her boyfriend at the police and not a bad warrant.

Jesus Christ

some_guy ,

Travesty of our bullshit system.

Ragdoll_X ,
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I guess if you’re a hostage cops can just kill you and blame the criminal then

alienzx ,

Actually yes. That’s well established case law.

Ragdoll_X ,
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society

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aloeTGL ,

Looks like corruption wins again …. I’m tired boss.

BertramDitore ,
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Judge Simpson said that “there is no direct link between the warrantless entry and Taylor’s death.”

What?! How does that make any sense? If the cops didn’t illegally enter her apartment without a warrant, Breonna would still be alive today. Cause meet effect. How is that not a direct link?

homesweethomeMrL ,

Exactly. The fuck.

Judge was appointed by Reagan

ShaggySnacks ,

Ol’ Rotten Ronnie fucking the world from beyond the grave.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Well . . .

ArbitraryValue ,

I think the legal principle here is that of a superseding cause. The case law on this matter is really complex and I, as someone who is NOT a lawyer, cannot comment on the merit of the judge’s decision. However, the case described in that Wikipedia article is illustrative:

if a defendant had carelessly spilled gasoline near a pile of cigarette butts in an alley behind a bar, the fact that a bar patron later carelessly threw a cigarette butt into the gasoline would be deemed a foreseeable intervening cause, and would not absolve the defendant of tort liability. However, if the bar patron intentionally threw the cigarette butt into the gasoline because he wanted to see it ignite, this intentional act would likely be deemed unforeseeable, and therefore superseding.

BertramDitore ,
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Wow that hurt my head. I read the rest of the Wikipedia page and I think I understand, but damn, I’ll need to read the judge’s full opinion to see just how creatively he applied that principle. Tort law is not for me.

MegaUltraChicken ,

Tort law is essentially legal sorcery

grue ,

The case law on this matter is really complex and I, as someone who is NOT a lawyer, cannot comment on the merit of the judge’s decision.

What are you talking about? Of course you can! Any reasonable person can see that this decision is bullshit, nuances of superseding cause be damned.

Doorbook ,

I read this and I was not surprise because since October they have been blaming Hamas for the genocide in Gaza, and it seems this form of gaslighting is engrave in USA politics.

faltryka ,

That’s an awfully misleading situation. They state that her boyfriend’s gunshot caused her death, which I think most people would reasonably interpret to mean that her boyfriend shot her in the moment, but what they really mean is that if he hadn’t opened fire on police officers entering their home without prior warning, they wouldn’t have returned fire and killed her.

iAmTheTot ,

Which is not even a sure thing. Black people have been shot for even less than sleep, somehow.

ArbitraryValue , (edited )

Who is saying that and where?

Edit: Never mind, I found it. Note that this is the newspaper’s phrasing. Apparently what the judge actually wrote is more technical and less misleading:

In his ruling, Judge Simpson wrote that the gunshot fired by Walker “became the proximate, or legal, cause of Taylor’s death.”

almar_quigley ,

It’s still the same concept. The exciting incident is breaking and entering by the cops. Judge is still stating them entering illegally is not the cause which it is.

FlyingSquid ,
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It also sounds like precedent to excuse cops murdering children.

“Their parents killed them by opening fire at the intruders they didn’t know were cops with the gun they legally have to protect their family.”

raynethackery ,

What ever happened to felony murder?

FlyingSquid ,
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Bastards in blue exempted.

acosmichippo ,
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“She wasn’t clear enough on policies”

“I still don’t feel like she’s ready”

yeah yeah yeah bro whatever.

Korne127 ,
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Is there any way this can get overturned?

themeatbridge ,

No. But they are still on trial for falsifying documentation and civil rights violations.

hddsx ,

That’s amazing. The bullet that struck the victim was not the cause of death, but the bullet before?

So if an LAPD officer goes to raid someone’s home, and a gangster kills a bystander, the officer is responsible? If he hadn’t gone out for the raid, the gangster would not have fired the weapon?

Wait but if the officers in Taylor’ case didn’t show up to the door, her boyfriend wouldn’t have fired the bullet. So it’s the police fault

sgibson5150 ,

This commando raid bullshit has got to stop. How many have died since Breonna? How many more will die? Fucking pigs.

todd_bonzalez ,
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Dismiss these charges, assholes.

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ohellidk ,

Hell yeah

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