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Removal of Confederate monuments in Georgia leads to boycott of crane companies
Tanasia Kenney
A handful of Confederate monuments have come down across Georgia. Now, a local group plans to boycott the crane companies that removed them.
“These
companies have shown the sacrifices these veterans made is of no value
when compared to a quick buck,” leaders with the Georgia Division of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans said in a release announcing the boycott
Sunday. “All is for sale. They have sold themselves out to these liberal
municipalities and county governments.”
The group has called on
its 33,000-plus members to quit doing business with the two companies
hired to remove monuments in Athens-Clarke, Dekalb, Henry and Rockdale
counties.
Roper & Sons has relocated statues in Rockdale and Henry counties, and was tapped by Covington city officials in July to remove a Confederate memorial statue
from the city square, according to the Henry Herald. Superior Rigging
& Erecting Company of Atlanta was hired by Dekalb and Athens-Clarke
counties to remove monuments there, the newspaper reported.
The
Sons of Confederate Veterans criticized the companies for dismantling
“Georgia’s Veterans Monument in the dark of night” and discouraged
contractors, vendors, construction professionals and others from using
their services in the future. Thousands sign petition to save KKK statue amid calls for removal from Georgia cemetery
“This
Boycott is no reflection on the hard-working men and women who are the
operators, riggers, shop mechanics and drivers for these crane
companies,” the group wrote, saying it wouldn’t hold those employees
liable for “the greedy actions of their bosses.”
“It is
unfortunate that these crane companies have placed their employees in
this position just to make a fast buck,” the group said. “Many of these
monuments were erected by mothers, wives, sisters and daughters to honor
their lost loved ones. Many of these fine employees are veterans
themselves or descendants of veterans.”
At least four confederate
monuments have been removed in Georgia amid renewed scrutiny over Civil
War-era symbols sparked by the in-custody death of George Floyd, an
unarmed Black man killed on Memorial Day by Minneapolis police when an
officer knelt on his neck for about eight minutes as three other
officers failed to intervene.
Several monuments are still
standing, however, with the Peach State having more Confederate statues
and memorials on public property than any other state,
according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Georgia is also home to
Stone Mountain, the nation’s largest Confederate monument.
The
state leads with 114 memorials honoring Confederate soldiers, followed
by Virginia with 110 and North Carolina with 97, the organization said.
It’s
unclear how much support the Sons of Confederate Veterans boycott has
gained, however, comments left on the group’s Facebook page suggest
traction may be slow.
“Boycotting is a weak but feel good/virtue
signaling effort that — unless done be millions of people across America
or the majority of the clientele of a business, has zero effect,” one
user commented.
“I’m more concerned about the politicians who voted for removal,” wrote another. “Serious discussion is needed with them.”
Why the hell does ANYONE think this is okay? You sick M... F ers
White black purple green.... YOU SICK SON OF A BITCH.
Why are any of us letting this happen? Why aren't the family and friends of this ass h__e not ripping him a new one?They are just as guilty.
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Amazon driver hits 73-year-old man in the face after being 'asked to wear a face mask' while delivering packages
Graig Graziosi
An
Amazon delivery driver strikes a 73-year-old man in the face after he
asks him to wear a mask before entering a building: TwitterAn Amazon delivery driver allegedly assaulted a 73-year-old man that asked him to put on a face mask before entering a condo.
The
alleged assault was caught on surveillance video. Ray Breslin, who
asked the driver to stay out of the building until he had a mask,
returns from their discussion wearing a mask.
The driver then shoves a phone in Mr Breslin's face and holds it there for a moment before slamming it into Mr Breslin's head.
The assault occurred on 4 Aug, but the driver has yet to be charged.
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"I was mortified" Mr Breslin told local broadcaster WSVN. "I just couldn't believe it."
A 73-year-old resident at a Miami Beach
condo said he refused to let an Amazon driver into the building without
a mask. When the man came back with a mask, he was seen shoving the man
in the face.
The
Miami Beach resident said he saw the delivery driver enter the building
without a mask. When the driver tried to go further into the building,
Mr Breslin stopped him and said he couldn't go further without wearing a
mask.
"I open the door, I said, 'Excuse me, you have to have a
mask on.' He said 'I'm just delivering.' I said 'It doesn't matter. You
wanna come in the building, you need to have a mask on,'" Mr Breslin
said.
He said the man attempted to enter anyway.
"All of a
sudden, he just puts his foot at the door like that. He's not gonna let
me close the door," Mr Breslin said. "I pushed his foot out of the way
and closed the door."
Mr Breslin said he took the packages from
the driver and left them near the building's front door. He also took a
photo of the driver's vehicle and his license plate.
The driver
went back to his vehicle to get a mask and returned to finish the
delivery. It was at that point that their confrontation escalated.
"Then
he came back with a mask on, and I thought 'Ok, not so bad' and I open
the door and I let them in," Mr Breslin said. "He brings his phone up
like that and smashes me in the face."
Mr Breslin pointed out to
the driver that the entire encounter had been caught on surveillance
video, which prompted the man to flee the scene with the packages.
"I
was like - what are you kidding me? I said 'there's a camera right
there that just shot all this' and he looked up, put his head down, took
his packages and walked right out the door," Mr Breslin said to NBC 2.
Mr
Breslin said the driver claimed he hit him because Mr Breslin hit him
first. However, the footage does not show Mr Breslin striking the driver
at any point.
The 73-year-old condo president was not injured in the encounter, but he said he was shaken up by the incident.
Mr
Breslin's lawyer, Michael Grieco, said the the incident was "felony
battery," explaining that any time someone hit someone over the age of
65, it was considered a felony.
Mr Breslin filed a victim's report with the local police, but the driver has yet to be identified or charged.
"The
fact that an Amazon driver, any delivery driver, would contemplate
getting violent with somebody in a situation like that is beyond me," Mr
Grieco said.
Amazon said it sent an apology letter to Mr Breslin.
The driver worked for a company that contracted with Amazon to deliver
its packages.
According to Amazon, the driver no longer works for the delivery company.
"This
does not reflect the high standards we have for delivery service
partners," Amazon said in a statement. "We are addressing the incident
with the delivery service partner and can confirm that this individual
is no longer delivering Amazon packages. We are in touch with the
customer to make things right."
Miami-Dade county is currently
under a county-wide mask mandate, requiring everyone to wear a mask
while in public or face a potential $100 fine.
Mr Breslin said he was simply trying to follow the law.
"I
was being firm. I wasn't being nasty. I wasn't going to let him in the
building without a mask," Mr Breslin said. "Plain and simple."
Ann Coulter sparks outrage after tweeting that she wants accused Kenosha shooter for president
Justin Vallejo
Ann Coulter said Conservative
commentator Ann Coulter tweeted support for accused Wisconsin shooter
Kyle Rittenhouse, saying "I want him as my president".
Twitter
removed Ms Coulter's statements for violating the platform's rules after
users took offence at her opinion, made in response to a user saying
they wanted the teenager as a "bodyguard".
Mr Rittenhouse, 17, was
charged with first-degree intentional homicide in connection with
shootings that left two people dead during the violence in Kenosha on
Tuesday night.
In case @AnnCoulter deletes it, here's the tweet. Please report this vile woman & her vile tweet. @jack & @twitter please help.
If these hateful people with large followings are allowed to continue to declare #OpenSeason on Black lives, on YOUR platform, more people will die. pic.twitter.com/ITfgxZZypz
— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) August 27, 2020
Analysis
of the video from the scene of Tuesday night's shootings showed a man
pursued by a group before an unknown gunman fires nearby. He turns in
the direction of the shots. As someone else lunges towards him, the
teenager appears to fire four times.
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The
second shooting occurs after the man trips and falls while leaving the
scene of the first shooting. As three people rush toward him, he appears
to fire four times while at least 16 other gunshots sound out around
him.
This timeline of events has left some observers to question whether the man was acting in self-defence, with Fox News host Tucker Carlson also being criticised for considering that scenario.
"A
court will decide whether what you just saw qualifies as self-defence.
As of tonight, we really don't have more details," Mr Carlson said on
his show Wednesday. "We do know why it all happened, though. Kenosha is
devolved into anarchy because the authorities in charge of the city
abandoned it. People in charge, from the governor of Wisconsin on down,
refused to enforce the law. They stood back and they watched Kenosha
burn.
"So are we really surprised that looting and arson
accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles
decided they had to maintain order when no one else would? Everyone
could see what was happening in Kenosha. It was getting crazier by the
hour," he continued.
Kenosha
devolved into anarchy because the authorities abandoned the people.
Those in charge, from the governor on down, refused to enforce the law.
They've stood back and watched Kenosha burn. Are we really surprised
that looting and arson accelerated to murder? pic.twitter.com/oul2KUiDi3
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 27, 2020
The death of Breonna Taylor: Report details why Louisville police decided to forcibly enter her apartment
Andrew Wolfson, Louisville Courier Journal
Editor’s note:
The Courier Journal has exhaustively covered all aspects of the fatal
shooting of Breonna Taylor on March 13 at the hands of Louisville Metro
Police Department officers. As the investigation of their conduct
continues, this story examines documents and other evidence we obtained
that helps explain why LMPD pursued the no-knock search warrant and why
officers were there that night. It does not justify the shooting but
provides more insight into this highly controversial case. An earlier
version of this story was published prematurely Tuesday morning before
final edits were made. We apologize for that misstep.
An internal report by the Louisville Metro Police Department after officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor on March 13 sheds more light on why they forcibly entered her apartment the night she was killed.
It
provides no explanations or evidence aimed at justifying the shooting
that has sparked three months of protests in Louisville, Kentucky, and
national outrage. Critics accused police of smashing into the home of an
unarmed Black woman for no legitimate reason and killing her.
The
39-page report and corroborating evidence show that Taylor had more
extensive ties than previously made public with a person suspected of
drug trafficking who was at the center of a larger narcotics
investigation in Louisville. It is not known whether details in the
report were presented to the judge who signed the controversial
"no-knock" warrant for Taylor's apartment.
The
front page of an undated report prepared by Louisville Metro Police as
part of its investigation of accused drug dealer Jamarcus Glover,
Breonna Taylor's boyfriend.The report,
supported by jail phone recordings and other documents obtained by The
Courier Journal of the USA TODAY Network, details multiple links between
Taylor and Jamarcus Glover, a main target in a drug probe that prompted
police to request the search warrant for Taylor’s apartment.
Plainclothes
officers battered in her door, and she was killed in an exchange of
gunfire between police and her boyfriend. None of the drugs or illicit
cash police were searching for was found. 'We are here to fight for justice': 64 protesters arrested in Louisville amid demonstration over death of Breonna Taylor "Breonna
Taylor did not deserve to die no matter what her role in all this,”
said a Jefferson County law enforcement official who asked not to be
identified because Kentucky's attorney general is still deciding whether the officers who shot Taylor should be prosecuted.
Glover
was arrested the same night as Taylor’s shooting. He was picked up at
an alleged drug house 10 miles to the north in Louisville’s West End. He
was released on bail but is a fugitive after failing to post a new bail
set at $50,000 when he was charged again last month.
In an email
to The Courier Journal, Sam Aguiar, an attorney for Taylor’s estate,
which filed a wrongful death suit April 27 against the city, said that
“while this looks like a smear campaign, I also appreciate the need for
everything to get out to the public about this case. Good and bad.”
He
said the police department went to "great lengths AFTER Breonna died
and this case received national scrutiny to dig up all of her past."
In a statement issued early Tuesday morning, Mayor Greg Fischer condemned the release of the report.
"Breonna
Taylor's death was a tragedy. Period. Justice, peace and healing are
what is needed for her, for her family and for our community," Fischer
said. 70 days of protests: Breonna Taylor's death has created a much larger movement in Louisville
"It
is deeply reckless for this information, which presents only a small
fraction of the entire investigation, to be shared with the media while
the criminal process remains ongoing," he said. "It would be unjust to
draw conclusions about this case before the investigation is complete
and the full truth comes out. And efforts to sway opinion and impact the
investigation by releasing select information are wrong and divisive,
at a time when our city needs unity more than ever before."
Recorded jail calls mention Taylor
The Courier Journal reported May 12 that a sworn affidavit from LMPD Detective Joshua Jaynes said Glover was seen walking into Taylor's apartment one January afternoon and left with a "suspected USPS package in his right hand," then drove to a "known drug house" on Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
Jaynes
said he verified through a U.S. postal inspector that Glover had
received packages at Taylor's address, though that was contradicted by
Postal Inspector Tony Gooden.
The police report reviewed by The
Courier Journal goes beyond the information in the affidavit, detailing
evidence into police surveillance of Taylor and Glover, as well as
recorded phone conversations from a jail involving Glover and Taylor.
Jamarcus GloverThe report was compiled by the LMPD's new Place-Based Investigations unit, which targets violent crime at specific locations. The Courier Journal also reviewed transcripts of jailhouse calls Glover and other defendants made from Metro Corrections.
The
report is undated, and an LMPD spokesperson did not respond to requests
for information about it, including whether it was provided to the
mayor, police chief or other city or commonwealth officials.
It was written by an LMPD detective whose name was redacted from a copy of the report The Courier Journal reviewed. More: Activists see progress after George Floyd's death but say more must be done
The
evidence it details includes the results of a tracking device placed on
Glover’s Dodge Charger that shows it was driven to Taylor’s apartment
six times in January.
The report includes photographs of Glover
entering and exiting Taylor’s building. In the application for the
search warrant of Taylor's apartment, police said they suspected drugs
and money were held at the residence.
Glover called from jail about 12 hours after he was arrested and after Taylor was shot and killed.
In
the recorded call March 13, Glover, 30, told a girlfriend that Taylor
was holding $8,000 for him and that she had been “handling all my
money.” No money was found at her residence during the police search.
Aguiar said Glover and Taylor had dated until about two years earlier and maintained a "passive" friendship.
The recordings and other evidence reviewed by The Courier Journal show Taylor and Glover maintained closer ties.
On
Jan. 3, after Glover was arrested on trafficking and weapons charges,
he called Taylor from the jail and asked her to contact one of his
co-defendants to get bail money.
Taylor responded that the associate was “already at the trap” – slang for a house used for drug trafficking.
Glover
told her to be on standby to pick him up if he made bail. “I'm going to
get me some rest in your bed,” he said, according to the recording.
“Love you,” he said at the end of the call.
“Love you, too,” she replied.
In
his email to The Courier Journal, Aguiar apologized to “the public and
to Breonna’s family” for mischaracterizing the relationship, saying it
was based on an erroneous conclusion he drew without the benefit of the
jail recording.
Ryan Nichols, president of River City Fraternal
Order of Police Lodge 614, told The Courier Journal that he wishes more
information about Taylor’s connection with Glover had been released
earlier because it would have countered erroneous rumors that police
went to the wrong address and had no reason to search Taylor’s home.
Keturah
Herron, policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of
Kentucky, blasted LMPD for creating the report, calling it a case of
victim-blaming.
"We have seen this, historically, not just in
Breonna's case but in cases across the nation," Herron told The Courier
Journal. "They did it with Freddie Gray. They did it with Trayvon
Martin. And then just recently, they did it with Jacob Blake (the victim
of a police shooting this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin).
"What's
important here is that regardless of what Breonna was involved in from
the day that she was born until March 13, it does not give reason for
her to be murdered the way she was murdered," she said. "For LMPD now,
or even sometimes the media ... to basically try to paint the picture
that it's OK for police to use those tactics, it's absurd. It's
disrespectful. It's distasteful."
At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, interim LMPD Chief Robert Schroeder chastised the release of the report.
"We
want to protect the integrity of all of our investigations," Schroeder
said. "This kind of leak and this kind of reporting is simply not
helpful to the process. It seems irrelevant to the goal of getting
justice, peace and healing for our community." Must read: Debunking 8 widely shared rumors in the Breonna Taylor police shooting
Glover claims Taylor handledhis money
On Dec. 30, 2019, days before her recorded jail conversation with Glover, Taylor posted a $2,500 bond for another man charged in the same case, Darreal Forest, 34.
His attorney, Casey McCall, did not immediately respond to a question about how his client knew Taylor.
Glover,
Forest and three other men were charged with trafficking and weapons
offenses after police received a tip from a confidential informant that
they were hiding drugs and firearms in abandoned homes adjacent to the
"trap house" they allegedly operated at 2424 Elliott Ave.
Darreal Forest, for whom Breonna Taylor posted bond last DecemberPolice seized five handguns and three rifles, according to evidence filed in the case.
The
jail recordings show that on March 13, Glover, trying to round up cash
to make bail on a new set of trafficking charges, called a girlfriend
and told him Taylor had his money.
"She had the eight grand I gave her the other day, and she picked up another six," Glover said.
“Did she tell you where it was?” the caller asked him.
“She didn't have the chance to tell me nothing,” he replied. “She dead.”
When
the caller asked Glover why he left the money with Taylor, he said,
“Don’t take it wrong, but Bre been handling all my money. She has been
handling (expletive) for me and … it ain’t just me."
Nothing in
the recordings or other evidence obtained by The Courier Journal
substantiates Glover’s claim that Taylor was handling money for him. Read more: Will Louisville police be forced to release the Breonna Taylor file?
Sgt.
Jonathan Mattingly, one of the three officers who fired shots into
Taylor’s apartment, told investigators from the Public Integrity Unit,
which investigates potential crimes by government employees, that police suspected Taylor may have held drugs and money for Glover.
In
a different recorded phone call from the jail March 13, Demarius
Bowman, who was arrested with Glover, told his sister that another
woman, Alicia “Kesha” Jones, 24, had been given the group’s money.
“We put all the money on Kesha,” said Bowman, 24. “We dumped everything on her.”
Jones was holding $3,413 in cash when she was arrested earlier after the search at 2424 Elliott Ave., according to police records.
Jones,
Glover and Bowman, along with three other defendants – Rayshawn Lee,
33; Anthony Taylor, 31; and Adrian Walker, 28 – are charged with
complicity in trafficking in a controlled substance and running an
organized crime syndicate.
They all pleaded not guilty.
Police surveil Glover and Taylor
Court records show that Taylor posted bond twice for Glover in 2017,
as mentioned in the police report, though it is not unusual for a
girlfriend, spouse, friend or parent to post bond for a loved one.
The police report says Glover called Taylor’s phone
from jail 27 times from January 2016 to January 2020, including the
call Jan. 3 in which he asked her to contact Adrian Walker to round up
bail money for him.
The report says that on Feb. 13 – a month
before Taylor's death – detectives watched through a pole camera mounted
outside the suspected drug house on Elliot Avenue as Taylor and Glover
drove up to the house in her black Dodge Charger and he got out and went
inside.
He came out after a few minutes and they drove off, the report says. Police
disclosed in their application to search Taylor’s apartment that
another vehicle registered to Taylor, a white 2016 Chevrolet Impala, was
seen parked in front of 2424 Elliott Ave. several times. The
report says Glover called Walker at the jail the same day Taylor was
killed and said he didn’t understand why police searched her apartment
because “nothing ties me to Bre house at all except those bonds” – an
apparent reference to the bail bonds she posted for him in 2017. Walker responded that there were other ties, including photos they knew had been taken of her car from the police camera. “Yeah, she was there the top of the week before I went to court,” Glover said. He said he was upset by Taylor’s death, according to the recording. “I’m tore,” he said. “I’m tore. “I
keep losing those close to me. … This s--t kills my soul. I lose people
that really be close to me,” he told Walker. “That hurt, boy." He
blamed Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker – no relation to Adrian
Walker – for Taylor’s death: "At the end of the day, it was not my
fault. … At the end of the day, if I would have been at that house, Bre
would be alive, bruh. … I don’t shoot at no police.”
Taylor's boyfriend again says he didn't know he was firing at police
"Breonna
Taylor's death was a tragedy. Period. Justice, peace and healing are
what is needed for her, for her family and for our community. Today a
news story was released that includes information related to the Breonna
Taylor case, despite the fact that the Attorney General and FBI have
insisted that the investigation remain confidential for the integrity of
the judicial process as a whole. In addition, attorneys for Breonna’s
family, the county attorney, and the civil attorneys for the officers
are under a protective order that does not permit them to disclose
evidence in this case. It is deeply reckless for this information, which
presents only a small fraction of the entire investigation, to be
shared with the media while the criminal process remains ongoing. It
would be unjust to draw conclusions about this case before the
investigation is complete and the full truth comes out. And, efforts to
sway opinion and impact the investigation by releasing select
information are wrong and divisive, at a time when our city needs unity
more than ever before."
U.S.
The death of Breonna Taylor: Report details why Louisville police decided to forcibly enter her apartment
Andrew Wolfson, Louisville Courier Journal
Editor’s note:
The Courier Journal has exhaustively covered all aspects of the fatal
shooting of Breonna Taylor on March 13 at the hands of Louisville Metro
Police Department officers. As the investigation of their conduct
continues, this story examines documents and other evidence we obtained
that helps explain why LMPD pursued the no-knock search warrant and why
officers were there that night. It does not justify the shooting but
provides more insight into this highly controversial case. An earlier
version of this story was published prematurely Tuesday morning before
final edits were made. We apologize for that misstep.
An internal report by the Louisville Metro Police Department after officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor on March 13 sheds more light on why they forcibly entered her apartment the night she was killed.
It
provides no explanations or evidence aimed at justifying the shooting
that has sparked three months of protests in Louisville, Kentucky, and
national outrage. Critics accused police of smashing into the home of an
unarmed Black woman for no legitimate reason and killing her. The
39-page report and corroborating evidence show that Taylor had more
extensive ties than previously made public with a person suspected of
drug trafficking who was at the center of a larger narcotics
investigation in Louisville. It is not known whether details in the
report were presented to the judge who signed the controversial
"no-knock" warrant for Taylor's apartment.
The
front page of an undated report prepared by Louisville Metro Police as
part of its investigation of accused drug dealer Jamarcus Glover,
Breonna Taylor's boyfriend.The report,
supported by jail phone recordings and other documents obtained by The
Courier Journal of the USA TODAY Network, details multiple links between
Taylor and Jamarcus Glover, a main target in a drug probe that prompted
police to request the search warrant for Taylor’s apartment. Plainclothes
officers battered in her door, and she was killed in an exchange of
gunfire between police and her boyfriend. None of the drugs or illicit
cash police were searching for was found. 'We are here to fight for justice': 64 protesters arrested in Louisville amid demonstration over death of Breonna Taylor "Breonna
Taylor did not deserve to die no matter what her role in all this,”
said a Jefferson County law enforcement official who asked not to be
identified because Kentucky's attorney general is still deciding whether the officers who shot Taylor should be prosecuted.
Glover
was arrested the same night as Taylor’s shooting. He was picked up at
an alleged drug house 10 miles to the north in Louisville’s West End. He
was released on bail but is a fugitive after failing to post a new bail
set at $50,000 when he was charged again last month.
In an email
to The Courier Journal, Sam Aguiar, an attorney for Taylor’s estate,
which filed a wrongful death suit April 27 against the city, said that
“while this looks like a smear campaign, I also appreciate the need for
everything to get out to the public about this case. Good and bad.”
He
said the police department went to "great lengths AFTER Breonna died
and this case received national scrutiny to dig up all of her past."
In a statement issued early Tuesday morning, Mayor Greg Fischer condemned the release of the report.
"Breonna
Taylor's death was a tragedy. Period. Justice, peace and healing are
what is needed for her, for her family and for our community," Fischer
said. 70 days of protests: Breonna Taylor's death has created a much larger movement in Louisville
"It
is deeply reckless for this information, which presents only a small
fraction of the entire investigation, to be shared with the media while
the criminal process remains ongoing," he said. "It would be unjust to
draw conclusions about this case before the investigation is complete
and the full truth comes out. And efforts to sway opinion and impact the
investigation by releasing select information are wrong and divisive,
at a time when our city needs unity more than ever before."
Recorded jail calls mention Taylor
The Courier Journal reported May 12 that a sworn affidavit from LMPD Detective Joshua Jaynes said Glover was seen walking into Taylor's apartment one January afternoon and left with a "suspected USPS package in his right hand," then drove to a "known drug house" on Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
Jaynes
said he verified through a U.S. postal inspector that Glover had
received packages at Taylor's address, though that was contradicted by
Postal Inspector Tony Gooden.
The police report reviewed by The
Courier Journal goes beyond the information in the affidavit, detailing
evidence into police surveillance of Taylor and Glover, as well as
recorded phone conversations from a jail involving Glover and Taylor.Jamarcus Glover
The report was compiled by the LMPD's new Place-Based Investigations unit, which targets violent crime at specific locations. The Courier Journal also reviewed transcripts of jailhouse calls Glover and other defendants made from Metro Corrections.
The
report is undated, and an LMPD spokesperson did not respond to requests
for information about it, including whether it was provided to the
mayor, police chief or other city or commonwealth officials.
It was written by an LMPD detective whose name was redacted from a copy of the report The Courier Journal reviewed. More: Activists see progress after George Floyd's death but say more must be done
The
evidence it details includes the results of a tracking device placed on
Glover’s Dodge Charger that shows it was driven to Taylor’s apartment
six times in January.
The report includes photographs of Glover
entering and exiting Taylor’s building. In the application for the
search warrant of Taylor's apartment, police said they suspected drugs
and money were held at the residence.
Glover called from jail about 12 hours after he was arrested and after Taylor was shot and killed.
In
the recorded call March 13, Glover, 30, told a girlfriend that Taylor
was holding $8,000 for him and that she had been “handling all my
money.” No money was found at her residence during the police search.
Aguiar said Glover and Taylor had dated until about two years earlier and maintained a "passive" friendship.
The recordings and other evidence reviewed by The Courier Journal show Taylor and Glover maintained closer ties.
On
Jan. 3, after Glover was arrested on trafficking and weapons charges,
he called Taylor from the jail and asked her to contact one of his
co-defendants to get bail money.
Taylor responded that the associate was “already at the trap” – slang for a house used for drug trafficking.
Glover
told her to be on standby to pick him up if he made bail. “I'm going to
get me some rest in your bed,” he said, according to the recording.
“Love you,” he said at the end of the call.
“Love you, too,” she replied.
In
his email to The Courier Journal, Aguiar apologized to “the public and
to Breonna’s family” for mischaracterizing the relationship, saying it
was based on an erroneous conclusion he drew without the benefit of the
jail recording.
Ryan Nichols, president of River City Fraternal
Order of Police Lodge 614, told The Courier Journal that he wishes more
information about Taylor’s connection with Glover had been released
earlier because it would have countered erroneous rumors that police
went to the wrong address and had no reason to search Taylor’s home.
Keturah
Herron, policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of
Kentucky, blasted LMPD for creating the report, calling it a case of
victim-blaming.
"We have seen this, historically, not just in
Breonna's case but in cases across the nation," Herron told The Courier
Journal. "They did it with Freddie Gray. They did it with Trayvon
Martin. And then just recently, they did it with Jacob Blake (the victim
of a police shooting this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin).
"What's
important here is that regardless of what Breonna was involved in from
the day that she was born until March 13, it does not give reason for
her to be murdered the way she was murdered," she said. "For LMPD now,
or even sometimes the media ... to basically try to paint the picture
that it's OK for police to use those tactics, it's absurd. It's
disrespectful. It's distasteful."
At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, interim LMPD Chief Robert Schroeder chastised the release of the report.
"We
want to protect the integrity of all of our investigations," Schroeder
said. "This kind of leak and this kind of reporting is simply not
helpful to the process. It seems irrelevant to the goal of getting
justice, peace and healing for our community." Must read: Debunking 8 widely shared rumors in the Breonna Taylor police shooting
Glover claims Taylor handledhis money
On Dec. 30, 2019, days before her recorded jail conversation with Glover, Taylor posted a $2,500 bond for another man charged in the same case, Darreal Forest, 34.
His attorney, Casey McCall, did not immediately respond to a question about how his client knew Taylor.
Glover,
Forest and three other men were charged with trafficking and weapons
offenses after police received a tip from a confidential informant that
they were hiding drugs and firearms in abandoned homes adjacent to the
"trap house" they allegedly operated at 2424 Elliott Ave.
Darreal Forest, for whom Breonna Taylor posted bond last DecemberPolice seized five handguns and three rifles, according to evidence filed in the case.
The
jail recordings show that on March 13, Glover, trying to round up cash
to make bail on a new set of trafficking charges, called a girlfriend
and told him Taylor had his money.
"She had the eight grand I gave her the other day, and she picked up another six," Glover said.
“Did she tell you where it was?” the caller asked him.
“She didn't have the chance to tell me nothing,” he replied. “She dead.”
When
the caller asked Glover why he left the money with Taylor, he said,
“Don’t take it wrong, but Bre been handling all my money. She has been
handling (expletive) for me and … it ain’t just me."
Nothing in
the recordings or other evidence obtained by The Courier Journal
substantiates Glover’s claim that Taylor was handling money for him. Read more: Will Louisville police be forced to release the Breonna Taylor file?
Sgt.
Jonathan Mattingly, one of the three officers who fired shots into
Taylor’s apartment, told investigators from the Public Integrity Unit,
which investigates potential crimes by government employees, that police suspected Taylor may have held drugs and money for Glover.
In
a different recorded phone call from the jail March 13, Demarius
Bowman, who was arrested with Glover, told his sister that another
woman, Alicia “Kesha” Jones, 24, had been given the group’s money.
“We put all the money on Kesha,” said Bowman, 24. “We dumped everything on her.”
Jones was holding $3,413 in cash when she was arrested earlier after the search at 2424 Elliott Ave., according to police records.
Jones,
Glover and Bowman, along with three other defendants – Rayshawn Lee,
33; Anthony Taylor, 31; and Adrian Walker, 28 – are charged with
complicity in trafficking in a controlled substance and running an
organized crime syndicate.
They all pleaded not guilty.
Police surveil Glover and Taylor
Court records show that Taylor posted bond twice for Glover in 2017,
as mentioned in the police report, though it is not unusual for a
girlfriend, spouse, friend or parent to post bond for a loved one.
The police report says Glover called Taylor’s phone
from jail 27 times from January 2016 to January 2020, including the
call Jan. 3 in which he asked her to contact Adrian Walker to round up
bail money for him.
The report says that on Feb. 13 – a month
before Taylor's death – detectives watched through a pole camera mounted
outside the suspected drug house on Elliot Avenue as Taylor and Glover
drove up to the house in her black Dodge Charger and he got out and went
inside.
He came out after a few minutes and they drove off, the report says. Police
disclosed in their application to search Taylor’s apartment that
another vehicle registered to Taylor, a white 2016 Chevrolet Impala, was
seen parked in front of 2424 Elliott Ave. several times. The
report says Glover called Walker at the jail the same day Taylor was
killed and said he didn’t understand why police searched her apartment
because “nothing ties me to Bre house at all except those bonds” – an
apparent reference to the bail bonds she posted for him in 2017. Walker responded that there were other ties, including photos they knew had been taken of her car from the police camera. “Yeah, she was there the top of the week before I went to court,” Glover said. He said he was upset by Taylor’s death, according to the recording. “I’m tore,” he said. “I’m tore. “I
keep losing those close to me. … This s--t kills my soul. I lose people
that really be close to me,” he told Walker. “That hurt, boy." He
blamed Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker – no relation to Adrian
Walker – for Taylor’s death: "At the end of the day, it was not my
fault. … At the end of the day, if I would have been at that house, Bre
would be alive, bruh. … I don’t shoot at no police.”
Taylor's boyfriend again says he didn't know he was firing at police
"Breonna
Taylor's death was a tragedy. Period. Justice, peace and healing are
what is needed for her, for her family and for our community. Today a
news story was released that includes information related to the Breonna
Taylor case, despite the fact that the Attorney General and FBI have
insisted that the investigation remain confidential for the integrity of
the judicial process as a whole. In addition, attorneys for Breonna’s
family, the county attorney, and the civil attorneys for the officers
are under a protective order that does not permit them to disclose
evidence in this case. It is deeply reckless for this information, which
presents only a small fraction of the entire investigation, to be
shared with the media while the criminal process remains ongoing. It
would be unjust to draw conclusions about this case before the
investigation is complete and the full truth comes out. And, efforts to
sway opinion and impact the investigation by releasing select
information are wrong and divisive, at a time when our city needs unity
more than ever before."
Driver Pulled from Truck, Beaten by Black Lives Matter Crowd in Portland Speaks Out
Brittany Bernstein
Adam
Haner, the driver who was dragged from his pick-up truck and beaten by
rioters in Portland last week, is questioning the motives of protestors,
saying “they’re exhibiting the same behavior that they’re trying to
stop.”
Haner’s comments
came during a Saturday appearance on Fox News’ “Watters World” during
which he explained that he and his girlfriend, Tammie Martin, had been
attempting to aid a woman they saw being robbed when the attack
occurred. His good deed left him with black eyes, head lacerations and
injuries to his ribs and legs last Sunday.
A crowd of Black Lives Matter and Antifia rioters surrounded Haner’s truck around 10:30 p.m.
after he crashed into a light pole at Southwest Broadway and Taylor
Street. At least one individual punched him as he sat inside before he
was pulled out of the vehicle and attacked.
“I warned
everyone to get out of my way when I did start my truck,” Haner said.
“I’d been down there long enough. They knew when my truck started, to
get out of the way. I was down there for a lengthy amount of time. I
managed not to hurt anyone while I was down there, but myself,
evidently. I can’t say the same for them.”
Haner called out Democratic mayor Ted Wheeler, who has given into protestors’ demands
to defund the police, for the police’s slow response time. He said it
took 10 minutes for help to arrive, “kind of a long response time for my
issue down there.”
Police had deployed a large law
enforcement response and encountered “a hostile crowd,” at the scene,
the department said earlier.
Haner then took aim at
the rioters, saying, “I thought that’s what they were down there trying
to fight, was this kind of behavior toward them, but they’re exhibiting
the same behavior that they’re trying to stop.”
He
was attacked by a mob of rioters, but the man who allegedly delivered a
final crushing kick to Haner, 25-year-old Marquise Love, was arrested
Friday and charged with felonious assault, riot
participation, and coercion. A video appears to show Love punching
Haner several times before kicking his head from behind, knocking him
out and causing his head to bleed after it hit the street.
Haner’s
attack is the latest in a series of violent demonstrations that have
plagued the city and led to the deployment of federal agents — who have
since been withdrawn — following the death of George Floyd in
Minneapolis police custody earlier this summer.
The suspect in the beating of a truck driver in downtown Portland turned himself in Friday morning, police said.
Marquise
Love, 25, turned himself into police and is being held on $260,000 bail
at Multnomah County Detention Center. He is accused of felony assault,
coercion, and rioting.
“I am pleased the suspect in this case
turned himself in and appreciate all of the efforts to facilitate this
safe resolution,” Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said in a statement
on Friday.
A crowd of rioters in downtown Portland beat a man
unconscious Sunday night after dragging him from his truck, video
footage of the incident shows. Police on Tuesday identified Love as the
man who delivered a running kick to the head from behind to the man,
identified by his family as Adam Haner, as he sat in the street already
beaten by the rioters.
The crowd surrounded Haner’s white truck around 10:30 p.m.
near where he crashed into a light pole downtown. At least one
individual punched him as he sat inside before he was pulled out of the
vehicle. The rioters forced him to sit in the street as he tried to
answer a call from his wife.
One man in the crowd wearing a
“security” vest, allegedly Love, delivered a kick to his head that
appeared to knock him out cold and caused his head to bleed after it hit
the street. Haner was transported to the hospital.
Video clips on
social media appear to show the moments just before the attack, when
the man attempted to help a person the crowd had previously robbed and
beaten.
Later, police deployed a large law enforcement response and encountered “a hostile crowd.”
Police
called on Love to turn himself in. Haner has since been released from
the hospital and is recovering from multiple serious injuries at home.
The
incident, which has attracted international attention, has prompted
harsh criticism of Portland government officials, including Democratic
Mayor Ted Wheeler.
By Friday afternoon, more than 3,800 people had donated over $137,000 to a fundraiser for Haner set up by his brother.
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Rapper who filmed girlfriend dying after taking drugs at Bestival has manslaughter conviction overturned
Martin Evans
Rapper Ceon Broughton was convicted of gross negligence manslaughterRapper
Ceon Broughton, who gave his girlfriend drugs at a music festival and
then filmed her as she lay dying rather than getting help, has had his
conviction for manslaughter quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Louella Fletcher-Michie, the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie, died after taking the hallucinogenic class A drug 2-CP at the Bestival music festival in September 2017.
Her
31-year-old boyfriend was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison
after he was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter in February
last year.
But the Court of Appeal overturned the conviction after
his lawyers argued that the jury could not be sure Miss Fletcher-Michie
would have survived if she had received medical attention.
Louella Eve Fletcher-Michie died after taking drugs at the Bestival music event - Zoe Barling/PADuring
the trial, Winchester Crown Court had heard how Broughton filmed her as
she lay dying from a drugs overdose rather than going to a nearby
medical tent to get help.
Prosecutors claimed Broughton had failed
to take "reasonable" steps to seek medical help for Miss
Fletcher-Michie because he had been given a suspended jail term for
possessing a lock-knife and a Stanley knife blade a month earlier and
feared the consequences.
But at his appeal hearing Stephen Kamlish
QC, questioned whether jurors could have been sure that Miss
Fletcher-Michie would have survived if she had she received appropriate
treatment.
He also argued that the sentence was "excessive".
Quashing
the conviction at the Court of Appeal, Lord Burnett said: "In our view,
this is one of those rare cases where the expert evidence was all that
the jury had to assist them in answering the question on causation.
"That expert evidence was not capable of establishing causation to the criminal standard."
Broughton was also convicted for supplying Class A drugs and he did not appeal that conviction.
The appeal was heard before The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Mr Justice Sweeney and Mr Justice Murray.
In a statement issued after the appeal ruling , Broughton said he remained devastated by the death of his girlfriend.
Louella Fletcher-Michie and Ceon Broughton - InstagramA
statement issued by Birnberg Peirce Solicitors said: "The Court of
Appeal has today found that Louella's death occurred not as a result of
criminal negligence but was instead a tragic accident.
"Ceon
remains devastated by her death. He has always wished that he could have
done more to save her. He loved Louella and she him, but he knows that
no words will ever be sufficient to convey his sense of responsibility
for what happened or to begin to remove the pain that others have been
caused."
Broughton's trial heard how he gave his girlfriend a "bumped up" dose of the Class A party drug 2-CP.
Medical
experts told the jury she could have been saved if he had walked just
"30 or more steps" in order to get her medical help from a nearby
hospital tent.
But the Appeal judges ruled that the expert evidence was not capable of establishing causation to the criminal standard.
