Exactly. The fuck.

Judge was appointed by Reagan

I think the opinion (as bad as it is) is that if the warrant was good the judge thinks the exact same thing would have happened. So the fact that these assholes knowingly lied to get the warrant isn’t a “direct link”.

To me making that argument kind of signals that no-knock warrants shouldn’t be a thing at all if you accept that an innocent would die either way because it’s so fucked up…and on top of that the cops still clearly caused this by lying because this isn’t a case of good warrant vs bad warrant - this is a case of bad warrant vs no warrant and Breonna still being alive.

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.

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.”

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

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.”

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.

Holy shit that’s beyond fucked. How can a judge rule that?

edit: Oh nvm, I just saw who appointed that judge, wow.

Bastards in blue exempted.

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

Hell yeah

Hamas: “Israel didn’t announce who they were, so I assumed they were intruders and opened fire. Then they shot back and killed my civilians!”

Fuck off. Remove this bot