A leaked Luzville Metro Police Department memo shows investigators found more evidence than previously linked to the main target of the Brexit Taylor and drug investigation that led to police shooting and killing him at night.
But the memo was written a few weeks after Taylor’s death and includes details that were not provided to the judge in the search and application rent application as well as evidence that came to light after his death – prompting Tyler to slam him as an attempt to give Taylor. doing. Justify a deadly police raid.
The leaked memo, obtained by NBC News, showed why officers sought a warrant for entry into Taylor’s apartment, but said nothing about the use of inflammatory or other potential violations of Lewisville Police Department policy, such as the blind firing of bullets into neighboring apartments.
“Brona Taylor’s death was a tragedy. Period, “said Louisville Mayor Greg Fisher, who called the leak” an attempt to influence opinion and influence. “
Fischer added, “There is negligence for this information, which represents only a small part of the whole investigation, can be shared with the media while the criminal process is ongoing,” Fisher added.
Taylor, a 26-year-old technician in the emergency room, was killed just after midnight on March 13 when officers executing a search warrant broke down his door.
Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Waker, strikes an officer, shooting him in the front door. He said he believes it is a domestic aggression. Police fired, hitting Taylor five times.
Both the FBI and the Kentucky Attorney General are investigating the shooting.
Taylor, who has no criminal record, knows Detective Glover by drug investigation targets, according to a police memo written by a detective when she was in her early 20s.
The 39-page memo contains new information on Taylor’s glover bond after his arrest in 2017. When he was re-arrested in January 2020, the memo shows that he had called Taylor out of prison at least three times. In a call, Taylor told Glover that it was stressful for him when he was around because of his interactions with the police.
When Glover’s car was parked in mid-February, he filed a complaint against a police officer and used Taylor’s phone number as his contact point, according to the memo.
Taylor was assassinated a month later.
The undated memo, first reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal, contains information from a May memo, showing that a police document has not been determined for at least two months after the fatal shooting.
“At a time when people were being reassured that the department was conducting a full and impartial investigation into Brano’s murder, [the department] Sam Aguirre, a lawyer for Terror’s family, said he was actually preparing a lengthy, unilateral report on matters his officers were unaware of.
At a press conference last week, Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Robert Schroeder called the investigation “not a help taken” and “irrelevant to our goal of achieving justice, peace and healing for our community.”
The police department did not respond to a question as to why the memo was written.
Questions have been raised about whether the warrant used to enter Taylor’s apartment is valid. The memo suggests police had more information linking Taylor and Glover than presented in court.
But legal experts said the leaked document does not answer the key questions that have been raised around the case: whether police announced who they were when they entered the apartment apartment, whether force was appropriate and other aspects of the police department’s policy. There have also been violations.
“These questions are crucial to the investigation,” said Christopher Slobogin, director of the Vanderbilt Law School’s criminal justice program.
“You need a probable reason to get a warrant to get into the house – it doesn’t mean you’re set,” Slobogin said.
“You still need to execute the warrant properly,” he added. “You still have to knock and declare, or use excessive force and declare.
“Police knocking on doors and declaring themselves have a long history of English common law,” said Lan Lan Rosenstein, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School.
“Houses are sacred places. We want to give people a measure of pride. “Everyone has a chance to calm down,” said Rosenstein, a constitutional law expert.
Rosenstein said police could maintain a surprise element in some cases, if they are looking for evidence that could be destroyed or they believe delays could pose a security risk. But Rosenstein said they should still disclose themselves – for their own safety and that of others.
“It’s not helpful to be tough without advertising,” he said.
New information from the leaked memo includes the transcript of prisonhouse phone calls between Glover and the mother of her child after Taylor’s murder.
In a call, Glover suggests that Taylor may have kept the money for her.
“Bray went down like his 15 (grand), she had the $ 8 (grand) I gave her the other day and she chose another $ 6 grand,” Glover told the mother of her child, according to the children’s acquisition.
According to a search warrant inventory document obtained by NBC News, police found no drugs or money inside Taylor’s apartment.
In an interview with the Courier-Journal last week, Glover denied that Taylor always kept money for her.
Glover’s attorney Scott Bart told NBC News that his clients have long maintained that “Brauno Taylor has nothing to do with any drug dealing.”
