Louisville police officers who killed Bruna Taylor on Charles Barclay and Sahakil O’Neill have been attacked on Twitter for defending police officers and blaming Black EMT’s boyfriend for starting the first firing.
Ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Denver Nuggets game on Thursday, the deaths of Barclay and O’Neill Taylor and the TNT. Prejudice was discussing the decision not to convict any officers in his murder during the show.
Barclays argued that Taylor’s death could not be compared to the police killing of black men George Floyd because Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Waker first shot officers when they entered his apartment with a ‘kn no knock’ warrant.
“I don’t think it was like George Floyd or Ahmed Arbury and things like that,” Barclays said.
‘I am saddened that this young lady lost her life. I think a no-knock warrant is something we need to remove from the board. But we have to keep in mind that her boyfriend shot at the cops and shot one of the cops. ‘
After telling Lakers-Nuggets game spectators that Bralona Taylor’s death was not ‘similar’ to that of George Floyd, Schwickl O’Neill (left) and Charles Barclay (right) have come under fire.
O’Neill agreed and argued that the officers involved were “doing their job” only on a warrant signed by the judge.
He also added that he believes the system needs to change.
‘You have to sign a warrant and some states will not allow non-knock warrants. “Everyone was asking for murder charges,” he said. ‘When you talk about murder you have to show purpose. There was a cow slaughter and we are sorry that a cow was slaughtered.
‘When you have a wager signed by a judge, you are doing your job, and I imagine you will go back.’
O’Neill became a deputy in the assistant department of office fees for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in Florida last year, but it’s not clear what his duties are. He has previously been sworn in as a reserve police officer in the California, Florida and Arizona divisions, and as a deputy marshal in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Since retiring from the NBA in 2011, O’Neill has played few roles in law enforcement, while his positions have been largely unpaid and honorary.
The grand jury has not sought criminal charges against the three police officers for their role in Taylor’s death, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday.
His shots were fired at a neighbor’s apartment after a six-month investigation by Cameron’s office fees, as a grant jury decided to indict an officer, Brett Hankison, on charges of absenteeism.
A Twitter user accused the pair of “throwing black women under the bus” as viewers vented their anger and frustration.
Herb Jones, a former Democrat candidate for the Virginia Senate, said he had “lost respect” after criticism from both Barclay and O’Neill.
Echoing comments made Thursday by a retired LAPD sergeant, one user called the pair “skin locks,” but not “sing locks.”
Barclays and O’Neill immediately fired on social media for their comments, as they were accused of ‘defending the police’.
One person branded them: ‘Skin people, not relatives.’
“Both Charles and Shaak are throwing black women under the bus,” wrote Justice for Brown Taylor. ‘Shame, I was a fan.’
Former Virginia Senate Democratic nominee Herb Jones added: “I lost a lot of respect today to Charles Barclay and Schwickl O’Neill for their comments on the assassination of Braille Taylor …
‘So it’s okay for some people to protect themselves but not okay for others?’
During the same show, Barclays also voiced calls by protesters to “defend the police,” and warned of knee-jerk reactions to the cop’s murder.
He argued that defending cops meant officers would be expelled from white neighborhoods, leaving blacks unprotected.
‘Who do black people want to call,’ he said, ‘Ghostbusters?’
Instead of dismissing the police, he said, “We need police reform and prison reform.”
Barclays’ remarks also contrast with other prominent NBA figures, including LeBron James, who has thrown his weight behind social justice campaigners fighting to charge officials.
After Thursday night’s game, which saw the Lakers win, LeBron said: ‘I know we lost a beautiful woman in Brenona. And we want justice, no matter how long it takes.
‘We are playing this game here and it is very hard and very difficult, but at the same time, our heart is with that family. And what is happening is so unfair.
‘It’s a tragedy and we hope there are still better days. We hope for better days and not of spreading love and hate. ‘
Brona Taylor was shot and killed by police during a boarded police raid in March using a knock-using runt on her apartment apartment.
Above is a picture of her with her boyfriend Kenneth Waker Kar on Tay. He opened fire on officers who stormed Taylor’s apartment, and officers opened fire
As it happens, more than a thousand people protested the second night of the curfew in Louisville with some protesters taking refuge in a church at night in Louisville in protest of no criminal charges in Taylor’s death.
Two officers were killed during a clash in Louisville a day earlier.
More than a thousand people protested in the city center on Thursday evening, most of them closed to traffic, with several shops aboard in anticipation of more violence.
With a curfew from 9pm to 6.30pm over the weekend, about a hundred protesters violating the rule took refuge in the First Unitarian Church.
Heavy-armed police surrounded the building and circled over the helicopter but protesters were allowed to leave around 11 p.m.
Authorities arrested at least 24 people on charges including illegal assembly, failure to dismantle and rioting in the first degree, police said.
However, the city was not visible to avoid the violence of the previous evening.
Demonstrations have taken place in Louisville, where amid reports of a shooting, an officer has been charged – and not for the shooting that killed her.
Following his death, and the death of George Floyd, protesters are urging the authorities involved to impose harsher fines.
A day after a great verdict in Taylor’s March murder in Louisville, Kentucky, police officers placed a perimeter around the first Unitarian church where protesters were seeking asylum during a curfew.
Protesters outside Louisville’s first Ukrainian church clashed with police officers last night in Louisville, Downtown Louisville, Kentucky, protesting the lack of criminal charges in the murder of Brona Taylor.
Protesters also gathered in other cities across the country, including Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, a vehicle was run over by a mob protesting police vandalism, injuring at least one person.
Footage from the ground as well as a news chopper showed movement in the crowd in a black pickup truck, in which a woman was hit and thrown on the pavement.
Protesters began to move around the truck, trying to open the driver’s side door, the truck sped off, the injured protester was seen driving over, and a street drug that ran to get to him was missing.
An LAPD helicopter that was looking for resistance was able to get behind the truck, directing the ground units by pulling the driver.
The truck driver was seen being taken into police custody, but his name has not been released and information about the charge was not immediately available.
In Portland, a city of many protesters following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a fire broke out in a police union building.
In St. Louis, protesters blocked the westbound lanes of Interstate 64, and in New York City, a large group of protesters marched from Brooklyn to Manhattan over the Williamsburg Bridge.
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