The police had a legal court-approved no-knock warrant and a search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. While accounts apparently vary, at least one non-police witness said the officers knocked and announced themselves as police. Whether they did or they didn’t, they then broke down a door and entered the apartment in trying to apprehend Ms. Taylor’s boyfriend, who allegedly ran some sort of drug syndicate. At that point, the boyfriend opened fire on police and hit an officer – he just happened to have a loaded firearm lying around close-by evidently. Unsurprisingly, the police returned fire. Do you think they should have just stood there and taken fire without attempting to protect themselves? Ms. Taylor unfortunately was killed in the exchange. A grand jury failed to indict any of the officers for Ms. Taylor’s death. The upshot is that her death was an unfortunate accident, and at least as of this writing there do not appear to be any facts suggesting otherwise.
Of course, the woke mob doesn’t care about facts. Unwilling to accept any narrative other than their own (which is that systemic racism and police brutality caused her death, not that it was an accident), the woke mob awoke and swarmed into the streets, protested, rioted and confronted police officers with the result that two police officers were shot. These protesters are upset that no officers were indicted for Ms. Taylor’s death, even though they didn’t deserve to be. Had Ms. Taylor been white, we probably never would have heard anything about this incident. “White Silence Is Violence” was one of the protester signs, as though that had any applicability to this situation, although it is a popular riff with the woke mob regardless of what they are protesting since all whites are racists.
Well, there certainly may be situations in which one could at least argue coherently that someone was killed by police officers for reasons such as alleged systemic racism or just because they enjoyed brutalizing the black populace. Whatever may be the merits of those types of situations, this Breonna Taylor situation just isn’t one of them, and this protesting about it is chasing a black cat in a dark room after the cat has already left. There just are not any facts supporting that narrative.
Nevertheless, the knee-jerk reaction of these protester clowns is to go out and riot and put both themselves, citizens and police officers in danger. One can only wish for a rapid end to this coronavirus stuff so people have to go back to work and don’t have the obviously excessive amount of free time on their hands such that they can cast about for something to protest and then roam the streets looking to destroy something. Lacking anything else to do, they decide to chase this non-existent black dog.
The woke mob may have some legitimate beefs. This isn’t one of them. But the instantaneous knee-jerk reaction to something that clearly was an accident in an attempt to pump it up into something that fits their pre-existing narrative is breathtaking. If the woke mob ever wants anyone to take their issues seriously, then they have to get serious and think things through and make an assessment as to what their priorities are and identify cases with at least some arguable merit, not situations like Ms. Taylor’s, as unfortunate as it is.