The police is not who is supposed to report on the police, that's the journalist's job. Obviously the police will try to spin it to their benefit if not outright lie like in this case. It is a failure of the journalists who repeated those partial or incorrect statements that they didn't dig deeper and get to the truth.
If there was a witness, why didn't the news find out about him through having interviewed every person in that apartment building.
Actually, it is the agencies who oversee the police who are responsible for reporting on the police. You act like people were even willing to give press interviews, it isn't like they legally have to talk to the press, they can just have the press arrested for trespassing as the apartments are private property.
Police, being a government agency that is expected to enforce and uphold the aw, have a duty to the public not to lie, and if they do lie, they should fire anyone who was responsible for those lies as part of being the "law enforcement" agency is that they are expected to ONLY tell the truth. If they lie, they have no business working in law enforcement in the first place.
Assuming (and at this point this is a huge assumption) that the bit about them being in civilian clothing at the time of the raid being true, I can see why he'd think some random criminals were breaking into his door, since from what I heard he was apparently fearful his GF's drug-dealing-ex (the one the warrant was apparently about) was the one knocking/breaking his door.
Also, on that point, if the guy's first thought of who it might be knocking is the guy the warrant was actually for, all that noise about the warrant being served in the wrong place I think is at the very least suspect, or at least Taylor's actions indicate as much. I don't think it's a stretch to have someone casing the joint and see some random black dude enter the house at night and assume it was the drug dealer and not the new BF.
1)ANYONE breaking into someone's home in the middle of the night is going to make the people inside fearful. They were not expecting company, they were both in bed before the people outside scared them. Her BF got up first and grabbed his gun, she got out of bed after and was coming in there to see what the hell was going on when they killed her. Her BF fired as they were coming in to the apartment, and he understandably felt threatened and unaware it was police and they dismissed the charges against him because he was acting in self defense.
2)THE POLICE ALREADY HAD HER EX BOYFRIEND IN CUSTODY at the time they were coming into Breonna's home, they have no reason to believe he would be there.
3)If the police were "casing the joint" they should have already known who the new BF was. They should have been aware that there were only 2 people in the apartment and who those people were.
4)There were no drugs or cash in Breonna's apartment, Breonna was an EMT and her BF was scheduled to start work at the Post Office, BOTH jobs require drug testing, so it is unlikely they even used drugs at all. The police should have been aware of this.
5) The warrant should have been deemed illegal and it did not meet the requirements for probable cause, nor did it meet the requirements for a No Knock warrant.
6)Breonna had her EX-BF blocked on her phone, so she apparently wasn't interested in talking to him, meaning he wasn't likely to even be hanging around at the time at all.
7) The Postal Inspector does not corroborate the police claims of suspicious package, thus the police LIED about the clothes and shoes that were delivered being reported by the postal inspector as "suspicious" in the first place. The postal inspector already said that didn't happen. That was 100% invented by police.
8) Police lied about Glover telling them Breonna was involved in his drug dealing. Glover has stated repeatedly she has never had any involvement in any of that. Police did however, attempt to bribe Glover with reduced charges to make up a statement to help cover their arses , but he did not actually agree to any of that.
9)Police were unaware of Breonna's EX using her address on his bank account until AFTER Breonna was killed, so that would have no factor in the warrant.
He said they were watching a movie, is it possible the movie was so loud it blocked the sound of the cops knocking/announcing themselves?
They were in bed in the bedroom when they heard banging on the door, it wasn't like they were sitting in the living room. Walker didn't start shooting until they coming in the door, and the charges were dropped against her BF because it was self defense. They used a ram on the door so apparently when they rammed the door he fired, then the cops started firing, but they already were coming in the door when that happened. The cop was firing blindly into the apartment through a window that had blinds and curtains blocking his view where he could not actually see what he was hitting.