Remember the “mostly peaceful” protests from just a few years ago?
They aren’t nearly as common, now, at least outside of states like Oregon and Washington, but at one time, they seemed to be everywhere, and the news media covered them incessantly.
Now, as you may recall, several of those big protests were caused by police shootings (or, at least, that was the excuse given for the protests). One of those shootings that Black Lives Matter used to justify a protest was the police shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.
Now, whether you think that the police should be punished for that shooting or whether you think that Taylor put herself into a position in which a police shooting was more likely and, in the eyes of some people, possibly even justified, the news from the Department of Justice will likely get your attention.
Andrew Goudsward writes,
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday moved to drop a ​criminal case against two former police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, who were accused of falsifying a ‌search warrant that led colleagues to fatally shoot Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, in 2020.
In a court filing, DOJ lawyers said they no longer wanted to pursue the case following an internal review triggered by a federal judge’s decision to twice downgrade the most serious ​charge from a felony to a misdemeanor. A judge must approve the dismissal.
Now, of course, being that Goudsward is writing for Reuters, it’s no surprise that the article continues by saying that the Trump administration is trying “to undo civil rights and police misconduct cases started ​during Democratic President Joe Biden’s term.”
They conveniently leave out that the Biden administration regularly went on witch hunts as part of their efforts to push politically left-leaning ideologies around race.
That was in spite of the fact that law enforcement should enforce laws impartially.
I’ll admit to being pretty disgusted by Reuters for their efforts to try to push the “Trump is a racist” narrative in spite of all kinds of contrary evidence.
But regardless of your thoughts on the legacy mainstream media or this particular case, it is a big change to have the administration in the White House trying to reel in the lawfare of the previous administration, especially when it comes to cases involving guns.
