Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the

Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the cops to raid the wrong home and kill the man inside.

But the man who police say admitted to stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge had already been in custody prior to the deadly raid that took place minutes before midnight last month, according to WLEX. That man told police he had stored the stolen Weed Eater at a home at 489 Vanzant Road which is a rural area outside of London city limits.

    • @Gradually_AdjustingEnglish
      53•2 days ago

      Good stuff, key point from the BI article:

      Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, head of the city’s economic development foundation Louisville Forward, the city’s economic development organization, told local news channel Wave 3 that the updated lawsuit “is a gross mischaracterization of the project,” and said that the foundation had worked with community organizations throughout. She added that the foundation is discussing the creation of a community land trust “to ensure investment without displacement.”

      And yet I found more using a search of "Place Based Investigations " as the main keyword: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/metro-government/2020/07/24/breonna-taylor-shooting-what-know-police-unit-linked-case/5443452002/

      it was revealed that the “no-knock” warrant police used to force their way into Taylor’s apartment, leading to her death, was obtained by a member of the Place-Based Investigative team.

      The dots are connected enough for me. PBI obtained the no-knock, likely on Wiederwohl’s initiative. Further lead: https://www.acceleratorforamerica.org/who-we-are/

      • @ClinicallydepressedpoochieEnglish
        13•2 days ago

        Can we get this to the front page of lemmy? Brianna’s story is one of injustice and this is more proof of what these cretins are able to do in broad daylight.

      • @SnowcloneEnglish
        9•2 days ago

        Yeah the alerts to police that led to the warrant were from the team working on the project inside the police department or something? It’s so ugly and obvious it really bothers me that I’m sure no one will ever face a single consequence. Just like always. The law is apparently totally incapable of even bothering those that have vs those that have not.