>to write a book about the case. wonder if it'll take S&S thru
>the weekend to drop this garbage....
>
>
>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/breonna-taylor-cops-book-deal_n_60788760e4b0e554e81d262b
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>One of the cops who participated in the no-knock raid that
>resulted in Breonna Taylor’s death last year just got a book
>deal.
>
>Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the three Louisville,
>Kentucky, police officers who raided Taylor’s apartment in
>March 2020, is writing a book about the case, titled “The
>Fight For Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor
>Tragedy,” the Courier-Journal reported on Thursday.
>
>Mattingly is the same man who, along with his colleagues,
>fired more than two dozen bullets into Taylor’s apartment
>while she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were asleep; the
>same man who sued Walker, alleging that Walker’s actions
>caused him “severe trauma, mental anguish and emotional
>distress” after Walker witnessed his girlfriend bleed to
>death and then was taken away in handcuffs; the same man who,
>after Taylor died from at least six bullet wounds, wrote an
>email saying, “We did the legal, moral and ethical thing
>that night.”
>
>Who better to tell the inside story of the tragedy than one of
>its perpetrators?
>
>The book will be published by Tennessee-based Post Hill Press
>and distributed by Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster declined
>to comment on the record and Post Hill Press did not
>immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
>
>Post Hill Press focuses on “Christian and conservative
>political books,” among other areas, according to its
>website. The company has published several right-wing authors
>including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who is currently facing
>accusations of sexual misconduct, and Laura Loomer, a
>far-right, anti-Muslim extremist.
>
>At 1 a.m. on March 13 last year, Mattingly, Brett Hankison and
>Myles Cosgrove executed a “no-knock” warrant at Taylor’s
>apartment in relation to a narcotics investigation. The
>officers did not announce themselves and entered using a
>battering ram. Walker, who had no idea the intruders were
>police officers, fired his legally owned gun in self-defense.
>
>“I don’t know what is happening,” Walker said in a 911
>call. “Somebody kicked in the door and shot my
>girlfriend.”
>
>Taylor was shot at least six times and died in her hallway.
>She was 26 years old.
>
>An FBI ballistics lab determined that Cosgrove fired the
>bullet that killed Taylor. A search of her apartment found
>none of the drugs or paraphernalia claimed in the warrant.
>
>Hankison and Cosgrove were both fired from the force, and
>Hankison was charged with three counts of first-degree wanton
>endangerment due to shots fired into neighboring windows. None
>of the officers, including Mattingly, were charged with
>murder.
>
>Mattingly is still a sergeant in the Louisville Police
>Department. He is now also an author.