I would strongly urge conservatives who wish to maintain their credibility in the criminal justice space to stop misrepresenting what happened in the Breonna Taylor case:

1. The cops DID have a no-knock warrant. This is undisputed.
2. While it appears they knocked, it is hotly disputed whether they announced themselves as police.
3. If they did announce, it is highly likely based on the totality of circumstances, that they knocked-announced-and-deployed-the-battering-ram all at once, which is an extremely common technique and completely defeats the purpose of the knock-and-announce rule.
4. It is wildly implausible to suppose that Kenneth Walker heard the knock, then heard the (supposed) announcement that police were serving a warrant and decided to take a single shot at people who he understood to be cops as they battered down his door. Wildly. Implausible.
This is why your side is losing the debate. Do better.
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