{"id":1390143,"date":"2022-03-19T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T22:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1390143"},"modified":"2022-03-19T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T02:14:39","slug":"biden-admin-doj-looking-under-every-stone-regarding-federal-crimes-in-breonna-taylor-case-crump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-doj-looking-under-every-stone-regarding-federal-crimes-in-breonna-taylor-case-crump\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin DOJ \u2018Looking Under Every Stone\u2019 Regarding Federal Crimes In Breonna Taylor Case: Crump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-doj-looking-under-every-stone-regarding-federal-crimes-in-breonna-taylor-case-crump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1390143&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/F4E3459F-1A77-4875-9AB6-CE06483C4F5E-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e1nzmkc90 css-1s0j25g\">\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department remains committed to looking at \u201cevery possible civil rights violation that could have happened that led to the death of Breonna Taylor,\u201d more than two years after the controversial shooting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbko.com\/2022\/03\/14\/breonna-taylors-mother-goes-washington-seeking-justice-daughters-death\/\">according to<\/a> famed attorney Ben Crump.<\/p>\n<p>Crump and Taylor\u2019s mother, Tamika Palmer, met with representatives of the Department of Justice on Monday, more than 700 days after Taylor died in crossfire between police officers and Taylor\u2019s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. \u201cThey affirm that they are looking under every stone\u201d for possible rights violations in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors swirled after the March 2020 shootout, which took place as members of the Louisville Metro Police Department served a warrant at Taylor\u2019s apartment due to her alleged connection to a suspected drug dealer. Many of those tales were spread by Crump, according to one of the officers involved in the raid, retired LMPD Sgt. John Mattingly.<\/p>\n<p>Crump fits the model of a \u201cgrimy defense attorney,\u201d who\u00a0\u201cseems to sniff out the national stories that can make him a buck, get some screen time, and gain him more notoriety,\u201d Mattingly writes in his new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/shop\/products\/12-seconds-in-the-dark-by-sgt-john-mattingly\">12 Seconds In The Dark: A Police Officer\u2019s Firsthand Account of the Breonna Taylor Raid<\/a>.\u201d He \u201cgets on TV like a televangelist and piggybacks the tragedies these families are going through.\u201d Mattingly says the Taylor case was no exception. \u201cCrump made his usual rounds on national television making false and slanderous allegations about the events of March 13 and the officers involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 57\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>He started the false narrative that Breonna Taylor was asleep in her bed when she was killed. He said we didn\u2019t knock or announce and in fact he claimed we changed our story from no-knock to knock and announce to fit our narrative. He claimed they called 911 as we were busting the door down, which is an absolute lie. \u2026 He said we were in plain clothes, which is true, but it\u2019s misguided because he leaves out the fact we were clearly identified as POLICE with raid vests. Crump claimed we were at the wrong house and the suspect we were looking for was already in custody: 100 percent lies.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCrump is very good at tying tragedies and injustices together to skew the narrative and hype up a crowd,\u201d Mattingly concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Walker shot Mattingly in the leg as he opened the door. Mattingly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sgt-john-mattingly-the-cop-wounded-in-breonna-taylor-shooting-tells-his-story\">sets the record straight in his book<\/a>, as well as in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-interview-sgt-john-mattingly-exposes-the-media-lies-about-breonna-taylors-shooting\">an exclusive interview with this author<\/a> for The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron similarly blasted Crump\u2019s sensationalist manner after the grand jury dismissed charges against every police officer involved in the shooting, except wanton endangerment charges against Brett Hankinson, on September 23, 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 126\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\u201cThis is the Ben Crump model,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cHe goes into a city, creates a narrative, cherry-picks facts to establish, to prove that narrative, creates chaos in a community, misrepresents the facts, and then he leaves with his money, and then asks the community to pick up the pieces. It is terribly offensive on his part to push such narratives, such falsehoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A jury of his peers found Hankinson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ex-cop-involved-in-breonna-taylor-case-found-not-guilty\">not guilty<\/a>\u00a0of wanton endangerment earlier this month, returning a verdict in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/news\/former-louisville-police-detective-brett-hankison-found-not-guilty-on-charges-from-breonna-taylor-raid\/article_3e04f822-9b2d-11ec-bd77-2b6f99611706.html\"> just three hours<\/a>. Hankinson testified that when he heard gunshots fired in the apartment, he believed Walker was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/in-depth\/ex-lmpd-detective-testifies-he-believed-officers-were-being-executed-during-raid-of-breonna-taylors\/article_0110613a-9a39-11ec-9056-13483f216d1b.html\">executing<\/a> his fellow officers.<\/p>\n<p>But Crump says he has found a receptive audience in the Biden administration. \u201cWe got an affirmation that the Department of Justice is not swayed with what happens with state charges,\u201d Crump told the media.<\/p>\n<p>At a joint press conference, Tamika Palmer said, \u201cThe most important thing is to remember that Breonna didn\u2019t deserve this.\u201d Mattingly, who expresses deep compassion for Taylor\u2019s family in his book, agrees that Taylor did not deserve her fate, but he blames her boyfriend, Walker, for opening fire unprovoked, then leaving his girlfriend alone as police returned fire while he dove into an adjacent bedroom like a \u201ccoward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department remains committed to looking at \u201cevery possible civil rights violation that could have happened that led to the death of Breonna Taylor,\u201d more than two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}