The camel is in the tent and don’t blame Brett
The camel is in the tent and don’t blame Brett
USA v. Brett Hankison Mistrial, Post 13 - How did the two-ton creature get inside Louisville Metro?
The DOJ has nosed its way into our city government and is bellowing out a Consent Decree (CD) with our mayor. The result will dictate how the LMPD must operate. Police tactics will change.
The Courier-Journal has reported on the CD negotiations:
The draft "must remain confidential," the statement said, citing DOJ instructions, though it said Greenberg and LMPD Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel are "committed to being transparent throughout this process and will keep Louisville informed as updates are available."
Transparent about what?
Will Brett and the police be blamed for this unconstitutional turn of events? Why do we see so many Consent Decrees in large cities across our nation?
Lonita Baker, spokesperson for Tamika Palmer, announced outside the federal courthouse just following the Mistrial verdict, that there would be a retrial. How did she know that?
The truth is that Democrat government leaders brought the CD camel into our midst.
Beshear said: EMT Breonna Taylor's fatal shooting by Louisville police needs to be examined by state and federal investigators… He tweeted: The public reports concerning the death of Breonna Taylor are troubling. Her family and the public at large deserve the full facts regarding her death.
Were the ‘full facts’ ever reported?
Vice President Kamala Harris tweeted: There are two systems of justice when peaceful protestors are arrested and the police who murdered Breonna Taylor almost three months ago still roam free. ?
Thirteen months after the ‘raid’ Mayor Fischer stated: “I strongly welcome the announcement made by Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier today of a Patterns and Practice investigation into LMPD.”
A Light in the Dark
In his book, 12 Seconds in the Dark, Sgt. Jon Mattingly has an excellent history of how ‘the narrative’ was constructed and promoted in the days and months following the ‘raid’ —the raid during which no officer ever ‘made entry into the apartment’ (p 120). For Louisville citizens who are unhappy that our city and police are coming under a federal Consent Decree, his book is the key reference on how and why we now are in this unfortunate vise.
The book will refresh your memory as to how our downtown became undesirable. It was not only Covid mandates but also the BLM protests and resulting deaths, injuries, harrassment of citizens, property damages, tent city and fires burning in Jefferson Square Park, Jesse Jackson’s visit, Oprah and many other celebrities misrepresenting the facts to the press, and much more. Breonna’s death was and still is referred to as a murder by Louisville’s police officers.
In mid-spring 2020, Sgt. Mattingly reached out to city officials to urge them to report the facts and was stonewalled. Without any truth in sight, protests and riots began.
Dark days
Mattingly recalls that County Attorney Mike O’Connell dismissed all charges against the protesters who sat on Attorney General Cameron’s yard and banged on his door and windows.
These peaceful demonstrators were chanting that, if they didn’t get what they wanted, they would burn it down… They were asked several times by the police to leave and warned that, if they didn’t get off the private property, they would be arrested. Eighty-seven people were arrested and charged with intimidating a participant in a legal process, which is a felony, disorderly conduct, and criminal trespassing. (p 104)
O’Connell magnanimously proclaimed in a news release, “In the interest of justice and the free exchange of ideas, we will dismiss the charges for each protester…” (p 105)
And now, O’Connell is a spokesperson for the Consent Decree.
The mainstream media transformed a knock-and-announce search warrant for drug trafficking evidence into a racist attack on a young black woman who died because of police incompetence and brutality.
Yet, the police were not permitted to search the apartment for the narcotics and money they had been sent there to find.
“They wanted to finish the job, or everything was in vain. However, the call came from above them that they were not allowed to search.” (p 131)
At the trial, Mattingly was portrayed as someone whose testimony would be prejudiced or untrustworthy, because he was Brett’s friend. In cross examination, the prosecutor began—
First off, just to be clear, you do consider yourself to be a friend of the defendant; is that correct?
Mattingly:
Yes. I mean, friend, yeah.
USA:
In fact, you cut short your vacation out in California to be here today to testify for him?
Mattingly:
Absolutely. I didn't want to see anybody get railroaded.
It was later brought out that he was in California on a business trip. He had been slated by the prosecution to take the stand on Monday, Nov. 13, but his appearance was moved up to Thursday, Nov. 9, and he nearly missed testifying.
After being shunned by so many who might have helped, Mattingly is not afraid of standing up— even to the Department of Justice.