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00:01:30.000What is going on in Louisville, Kentucky?
00:01:33.000The decision in the Breonna Taylor case is in.
00:01:36.000The grand jury in Louisville has spoken and they have charged one officer, Brett Hankinson, with wanton endangerment for blindly shooting 10 rounds from outside of Breonna Taylor's apartment.
00:01:49.000So I prefer not to spend our entire program on these very isolated incidents of police officers having to defend themselves and individuals dying in crossfire.
00:02:02.000However, because of the activist media's pathological obsession with trying to push a narrative that does not exist, that is not based in factual or empirical reality, we're going to have to debunk all of the narratives and the attempted activism now around the case of Breonna Taylor.
00:02:23.000And so we're going to get into the police officers and also Breonna Taylor and just some of the complete and total lies surrounding this case.
00:02:31.000But let's lead with Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who said this, quote, according to Kentucky law, the use of force by officers Jonathan, Mattingly, and Miles Cosgrove was justified to protect themselves, he said.
00:02:45.000Quote, this justification bars us from pursuing criminal charges and miss Breonna Taylor's death.
00:03:32.000Now, the left thinks that facts are racist, and that is one of the ideas of critical race theory.
00:03:37.000That's why they reject science and they reject math.
00:03:40.000In fact, listen to our sister episode with Isabel Brown, our campus correspondent at Turning Point USA, and you'll hear about how math is being taught as racist at universities all across the country.
00:03:52.000So here are seven facts about the report.
00:03:54.000Now, mind you, I just recently started to research this.
00:03:58.000I actually think there's a lot more important stories in the country than the unfortunate death of Breonna Taylor.
00:04:03.000I think that there's infinitely more important stories in our country, such as how one in four young people have contemplated suicide in the last 90 days.
00:04:11.000I think that's probably a more important story than someone who had a drug-trafficking lover who got caught up in a raid in Louisville because her boyfriend decided to try to shoot police officers.
00:04:22.000And we're going to talk about all of that.
00:04:24.000However, when we start to see arsonist, activist, and terroristic activity in Louisville, Kentucky, it warrants a factual response so all of you can know exactly what happened with the case of Breonna Taylor.
00:04:37.000Fact number one, Breonna Taylor was knee-deep in criminal activity with her ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, who sold drugs out of his home in Louisville.
00:04:47.000Despite being her ex-boyfriend, she was very much still involved in drug trafficking.
00:04:54.000Fact number two, Glover, Jamarcus Glover, her ex-boyfriend, was using her apartment as his home address and has been receiving packages at Taylor's apartment.
00:05:05.000Now, what were in those packages, we don't know.
00:05:08.000We do know that her car was seen multiple times at Glover's trap house and she was a person of interest in the narcotics investigation surrounding Glover and again, her ex-boyfriend.
00:05:20.000Fact number three: police had a no-knock warrant for Jamarcus Glover's trap house, where they successfully executed the warrant and arrested Glover, as well as several others.
00:05:31.000This is proof that warrants can be done without people dying.
00:05:49.000Warrants are not issued by police officers.
00:05:52.000So this entire scenario here was not just that someone got pulled over by the side of the street and the police officer decided to try to publicly execute them.
00:06:01.000It's a lot more nuanced than intricate.
00:06:04.000You had to have a judge that poured over the evidence and said, yes, based on the evidence provided, I am authorizing and signing off on you police officers being able to use force to go arrest her.
00:06:17.000Now, not to mean that you have to go kill somebody, of course not, but you can go knock down a door and find them.
00:06:23.000So they had a no-knock warrant for Breonna Taylor with her name and address on it, but they were instructed to knock and announce themselves upon arrival.
00:06:32.000Now, this is one of the biggest lies and misrepresentations and falsehoods surrounding the case.
00:06:39.000The activist media is painting it as a random raid on the wrong apartment where cops burst into the house and shot Taylor in the head while she was sleeping.
00:06:49.000Headlines like this carried the news cycle: quote, Breonna Taylor was murdered for sleeping while black from the nation.
00:07:42.000I said, is this something I should be upset about?
00:07:46.000Is this something I should disapprove of?
00:07:48.000And mind you, as I did this research and our amazing team here on the Charlie Kirk show started to do research, we started to realize how much we've been lied to.
00:07:56.000And by the way, this is why our show has only mentioned the Breonna Taylor case once.
00:08:00.000We mentioned it a couple months ago, and we just kind of remained quiet on it.
00:08:03.000We said, let's wait for the grand jury and for facts to surface.
00:08:06.000And now that the facts are out, we're taking a very firm, factual stance on.
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00:09:41.000So when no one answered the door after the police said, police open up, police open up, they knocked, not unannounced, but they announced themselves.
00:09:52.000And now Brianna's current boyfriend at the time, criminal Kenneth Walker, fired one shot at the police officers, shooting Jonathan Mattingly in the leg.
00:10:03.000Now, some people don't like me calling him a criminal.
00:10:05.000If you shoot at a police officer after they announce themselves, you're a criminal.
00:10:29.000And there are witness accounts that say they did hear a knock.
00:10:33.000Fact number six: police officer Mattingly and two other officers returned fire to Kenneth Walker, her current boyfriend, who started to shoot at them.
00:10:46.000Because after they said, police open up, the first thing that Kenneth Walker thought of is, let me try to shoot police officers.
00:10:55.000That's the type of person that Breonna Taylor was dating while she was also still doing business with her ex-boyfriend, the drug trafficker.
00:11:02.000And unfortunately and tragically, Breonna Taylor, who was standing in the hallway of her apartment, again, not in her bed, was shot in the crossfire.
00:11:42.000It felt kind of like a ceremonious reach indictment so they could say at least somebody was indicted for something here because of the pressure.
00:11:52.000And so Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron again said, quote, Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their return of deadly fire after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker.
00:12:20.000The third police officer, Brett Hankinson, he's the one that was charged of wanton endangerment in the first degree for firing shots from outside of the apartment, which subsequently entered neighboring units.
00:12:32.000Again, the officers fired shots after they were fired upon by Kenneth Walker.
00:12:37.000The shots he fired weren't even aimed at Breonna Taylor or her boyfriend.
00:12:41.000This is probably a correct indictment.
00:13:13.000It was probably foolish, and he'll probably serve a couple months in prison or a couple years in prison.
00:13:17.000He was outside the apartment when he did.
00:13:19.000He probably got excited and made a mistake.
00:13:22.000And he should be held accountable for that.
00:13:24.000Okay, and that's what the justice system does.
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00:15:06.000This is an ugly reminder that our justice system does not hold police officers accountable for their actions.
00:15:10.000Sherrod Brown basically wants Donald Trump to win Ohio by 12 points.
00:15:15.000That's basically Sherrod Brown's new position.
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00:15:27.000Because, by the way, Louisville's right on the Kentucky-Ohio border.
00:15:45.000A grand jury is no different than a jury in a court of law, but a grand jury is a group of your peers that makes a decision as to whether or not someone should be indicted, whether or not someone should be charged with a crime.
00:16:08.000Now, a grand jury does not need to be unanimous.
00:16:10.000That is the one thing that makes a grand jury different than an impaneled jury in a regular court proceeding.
00:16:17.000However, a grand jury, they watch the news, they have the same public pressure that a regular jury does.
00:16:23.000And by the way, this jury, this grand jury, was probably made up of Democrats, Republicans, black people, and white people, urban people, and rural people.
00:16:36.000Essentially, they decide whether or not an indictment should proceed.
00:16:41.000Now, grand juries have been growing in popularity over the last 10 years, especially with these police killings.
00:16:49.000Because prosecutors sometimes realize they do not have the evidence to move forward to charge these police officers.
00:16:57.000So the prosecutors or the government realize what is one way that we can justify bringing charges or not bringing charges.
00:17:08.000Let's impanel a grand jury, a jury of your peers.
00:17:11.000So this grand jury has met for some time.
00:17:14.000And in some ways, you could say they passed the buck, but I think it only makes their case actually stronger.
00:17:19.000I think that the prosecutors looked at this case on its merit and they said, we're not going to be able to proceed and indict these officers.
00:18:03.000So the prosecutor will not impanel a grand jury to ask for an opinion.
00:18:07.000The prosecutor will go to the grand jury and they will weigh the facts of the case and they'll also weigh the potential counter arguments that the defense will have.
00:18:15.000So the one thing that makes a grand jury different than jury when someone is actually being indicted is already indicted for a crime is there's no defense present.
00:18:23.000It's just a grand jury and the prosecution in a room.
00:18:27.000The prosecution does though have to make somewhat of a devil's advocate argument to say, here's what the defense will end up saying so that there's some qualification or else it can come across as very biased, right?
00:18:38.000And so in this case, the grand jury, which is just regular people, not people necessarily that went to law school, heard the facts of the case, and they probably asked very good questions and they said, well, who shot first?
00:18:50.000What does the law say about self-defense?
00:18:54.000What does Kentucky law say about police officers being able to defend themselves?
00:18:59.000And the prosecution likely said, well, look, Breonna Taylor is dead.
00:19:05.000We could charge this police officer with manslaughter.
00:19:09.000However, Mr. Walker, Kenneth Walker, started firing at the police first, and the police officers defended themselves.
00:19:17.000And someone probably on the grand jury said, well, it's not right that Breonna Taylor died.
00:19:23.000And the prosecutor said, you're right.
00:19:25.000That's why we're talking about this with you.
00:19:26.000But here's what the defense is going to say.
00:19:28.000According to Kentucky law, we cannot proceed.
00:19:31.000And the prosecution said, this is why we're bringing it to you.
00:19:33.000And we are not convinced that there's the evidence that merits it.
00:19:38.000This other police officer, Brett Hankinson, who fired his weapon, and they said, okay, we could probably proceed there.
00:19:43.000They went above and beyond to go through the grand jury process.
00:19:47.000So, again, if you're mad and you're angry about this, how many more different variations and levels of checks and balances do you require to not get angry about this thing?
00:19:58.000If you really think the system is that rigged from top to bottom, you should go find another country to live in.
00:20:05.000If you really think it's that rotten to the core, and you're not thinking rationally, by the way.
00:20:10.000Again, if Breonna Taylor was sitting in her rocking chair peacefully after she went to sleep after drinking a cold glass of milk and a police officer opened up the door and came in and put a pistol on her forehead and said, I want you to die and discharged his weapon, that would not be defended by anybody.
00:20:30.000But instead, she was in the middle of a drug trafficking ring with an award out for her arrest, not, by the way, should be a death sentence.
00:20:38.000And her criminal boyfriend starts shooting at the police after they say, open up, police.
00:20:44.000And by the way, if you have ever overheard a police raid, watched videos of a police raid, or spoken to law enforcement like I have about this case, they are so unbelievably loud and repetitive when they do these raids.
00:21:02.000You know the police are walking through your front door.
00:21:05.000And also, her ex-boyfriend, her co-conspirator in trafficking drugs, by the way, it's not an excuse for her to get the death penalty.
00:21:12.000I'm not saying that she should have been killed because she trafficked drugs, but it's important to realize this was not the local librarian, okay?
00:21:20.000She was hanging around very bad people.
00:21:23.000He was arrested peacefully in the same night.
00:21:28.000And black thought leaders are posting things like this on Twitter, such as, quote, after this legal lynching of Breonna Taylor, and other people saying, why would we black people vote in the voting process to this point?
00:21:40.000Who are black people going to vote for to stop legal lynchings like this?
00:21:47.000That's from Tariq Nasheed, who's a race-baiting civil arsonist who wants nothing more than disintegration of America.
00:21:54.000I've been following his tweets for years.
00:21:55.000It's hard to even keep up with his incredibly destructive take on America.
00:22:01.000They're basically becoming completely disillusioned because for them, they want police officers to suffer.
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00:23:09.000So, in the days leading up to the announcement of the verdict, mayor of Louisville, Greg Fisher, declared a state of emergency where the city, quote, due to the potential for civil unrest.
00:23:18.000And this resulted in the city being locked down and officers, their days off canceled.
00:23:22.000I actually got this message from a police officer in Louisville anonymously.
00:23:26.000Charlie, I'm a police officer in Louisville, anonymously, of course, but I've been down here in the city waiting since 5 a.m.
00:23:31.000If we have to prepare like this for an announcement, the city is wrong.
00:23:35.000The mayor approved a $12 million settlement to the family of Breonna Taylor without the council's approval, largest settlement in Louisville history.
00:23:42.000The city has been wrong about this whole situation from the very start.
00:23:48.000They let the attorneys lie about all of it.
00:23:51.000Police officers here in Louisville are leaving daily.
00:23:54.000We are so short on manpower that they've canceled all off days.
00:23:57.000For the time being, for all officers, I'm not sure when my next day off will be.
00:24:01.000If they do not handle this correctly, these next couple days, there will be many more officers leaving this department, putting the city in even more jeopardy.
00:24:09.000Louisville hit a very sober milestone Saturday night as the city plowed past its 117th homicide of 2020, making it the deadliest year in city's history.
00:24:19.000And black residents, of course, have been hit the hardest, according to Louisville police data, accounting for 71% of identified victims.
00:24:30.000Exactly what I predicted back in May, as soon as George Floyd's death happened.
00:24:34.000I was hosting a local radio show in Los Angeles as the George Floyd news came through.
00:24:40.000And I said back then, what I'll say now: thousands of innocent black people are going to die because white liberals say they don't like the police.
00:24:50.000And the settlement he was talking about, a $12 million settlement to her family.
00:24:54.000And now, mind you, I don't want to necessarily disparage Breonna Taylor's family here.
00:24:58.000But the headlines I read to you earlier about Sleeping Wild Black, those came from her family and the radical attorney they hired to represent this case.
00:25:07.000By the way, this guy is like Better Call Saul from Breaking Bad.
00:25:11.000Anytime there is a police shooting, this guy who is nothing more than a race baiter, Benjamin Crump, shows up.
00:26:10.000He should be held accountable for that.
00:26:12.000So when the decision was announced, the marches for justice just started.
00:26:17.000So I want to play this video, and I'll describe it for those of you who are listening.
00:26:22.000And just moments after the verdict was read, there was a parked U-Haul truck waiting, ready with the signs that said, abolish police and abolition now.
00:27:26.000But if you guys can't see this video, imagine right now a U-Haul truck parked on the side of a street, people flooding the U-Haul truck and taking out riot gear and supplies to go up against the police.
00:27:43.000Imagine after the Trump supporter that was murdered in Portland a couple weeks ago.
00:27:49.000That as soon as that happened, Trump supporters pulled up with a U-Haul truck wearing MAGA hats, taking out bricks, riot gear, and shields to march in the streets.
00:28:00.000Do you think the New York Times and the Washington Post and the activist media would care about that?
00:28:05.000Where did the truck full of all the supplies come from?
00:28:08.000And mind you, all this is happening, especially on Twitter, as burn it down, let Louisville burn, and America with a KKK is trending.
00:28:20.000And just breaking right now, a cop was just shot in Louisville at the recording of this podcast.
00:28:46.000It's philosophically very complex, and I don't want to make this episode too much about that.
00:28:53.000But Rene Descartes, who is the beginning of the Enlightenment, said, I think, therefore I am.
00:28:59.000That's enlightenment values that all of us listening to this podcast believe in, that your identity is in your capacity to think, versus nihilistic arson.
00:29:21.000We've been very fair in our observation here saying that that other police officer should be tried.
00:29:27.000Do not dive into dogmatic thinking about these things.
00:29:31.000When a police officer acts incorrectly, they should be tried.
00:29:35.000When a police officer acts correctly, they should be defended.
00:29:40.000The police officers in this situation did nothing wrong.
00:29:46.000And anyone that tries to burn down or threatens to burn down Louisville should be quickly arrested and put into prison for at least a decade.
00:30:04.000You actually might be a happier person if you do so.
00:30:07.000And when you dive into the facts of this case, you'll realize how much the activist media has been misleading you and try to rile you up about something that is completely and totally untrue.
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