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

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.

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>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
>
>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.

https://twitter.com/simonschuster/status/1382891286198378499

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

with S&S if they went ahead with this. I didn't know what he was talking about... when I googled something about a Mike Pence book came up. I figured he meant that... which would also have made sense. But timing-wise, he was clearly talking about this.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/24/1171597304/breonna-taylor-officer-myles-cosgrove-police-hired


Myles Cosgrove, a former Louisville police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March 2020, became a law enforcement officer again in a nearby county, according to various local media outlets.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office, which is about an hour drive northeast of Louisville, recently hired Cosgrove, Chief Deputy Rob Miller told The Courier Journal on Saturday.

"We think he will help reduce the flow of drugs in our area and reduce property crimes," Miller said. "We felt like he was a good candidate to help us in our county."


This photo released by the Louisville Police shows Louisville Police Det. Myles Cosgrove after a narcotics raid on March 13, 2020.
Louisville Police/AP
Miller added that Cosgrove had nearly two decades of experience in the police force. The Carroll County Sheriff's Office declined NPR's request for comment.

The hiring has garnered scrutiny in both Louisville and Carroll County.

Chanelle Helm, the lead organizer of Black Lives Matter Louisville, said Cosgrove's return to the police force showed the impunity often afforded to law enforcement.

"The way in which he can go and get a job in the same field should be illegal. For a typical citizen, we aren't able to re-enter certain fields, if we're fired from them. That carries with you," she told member station WFPL.

Cosgrove was one of seven officers involved in the deadly raid inside Taylor's apartment in the middle of the night. Police, who came to serve a no-knock search warrant, barged in — startling Taylor, a 26-year-old ER technician, and her boyfriend. Believing the officers were intruders, Taylor's boyfriend fired a single shot at them. Officers returned 32 shots, half of which were fired by Cosgrove. Two of his rounds struck Taylor.

An FBI ballistics report later showed that it was Cosgrove's bullets that killed her, according to WFPL.

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Police Department fired Cosgrove for violating department procedures on the use of deadly force by failing to properly identify a threat when he fired his weapon. Cosgrove also violated LMPD policy by not wearing a body camera during the raid.

In Cosgrove's termination letter, the interim LMPD Chief Yvette Gentry wrote: "The shots you fired went in three different directions, indicating you did not verify a threat or have target acquisition."

Gentry added, "In other words, the evidence shows that you fired wildly at unidentified subjects or targets located within the apartment."

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Cosgrove appealed his case to get his job back in November 2021, but ultimately the court upheld the department's decision to terminate, local media outlets reported.

The officer has not faced any criminal charges in connection to the killing. Four officers were formally charged by the Justice Department with civil rights violations but Cosgrove was not one of them.

In 2022, the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council voted to allow Cosgrove to keep his police certification, making him eligible to work for other police departments in the state, WFPL reported.

Cosgrove is not the first officer to be removed from a police department after misconduct only to be hired elsewhere. The phenomenon known as "wandering cops" has been an issue for decades in the U.S. in part because there is a lack of national coordination to keep track of officers with a history of misconduct.

Taylor's death fueled racial justice protests across the country in the summer of 2020. That year, Louisville's city council unanimously voted to ban no-knock warrants.

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