{"id":1408720,"date":"2022-03-29T22:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T02:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408720"},"modified":"2022-03-29T22:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T02:44:37","slug":"sgt-john-mattingly-police-officer-shot-in-breonna-taylor-raid-tells-all-to-tim-pool-about-the-night-that-changed-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sgt-john-mattingly-police-officer-shot-in-breonna-taylor-raid-tells-all-to-tim-pool-about-the-night-that-changed-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. John Mattingly, Police Officer Shot In Breonna Taylor Raid, Tells All To Tim Pool About The Night That Changed His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/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%2Fsgt-john-mattingly-police-officer-shot-in-breonna-taylor-raid-tells-all-to-tim-pool-about-the-night-that-changed-his-life%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=1408720&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\/Mattingly-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Retired Louisville police sergeant John Mattingly, who was wounded during the Breonna Taylor raid in 2020, sat down with Tim Pool for an episode of his YouTube show, Timcast IRL, to discuss his experience and his new book, \u201c<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/12-Seconds-Dark-Officers-Firsthand\/dp\/1956007016\">12 Seconds in the Dark: A Police Officer\u2019s Firsthand Account of the Breonna Taylor Raid<\/a>,<\/i>\u201d which was published by Daily Wire Books on March 15. According to DW Books, Mattingly\u2019s version \u201ctakes readers inside the Louisville Metro Police Department\u2019s response to suspected criminal activity that night, debunking lie after lie about what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Timcast, Mattingly broke down what the Catch 22 is for officers responding to riots, what he always feared most as a cop, and why the title of his book is \u201c12 Seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sgt-john-mattingly-the-cop-wounded-in-breonna-taylor-shooting-tells-his-story\">reported<\/a>, in March of 2020, \u201cTaylor lost her life as police served a narcotics warrant on the apartment where she was staying with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker. While the nation has spent two years saying her name, it has turned a blind eye to Louisville Police Sergeant John Mattingly, who nearly lost his life to a gunshot from Walker\u2019s 9-millimeter handgun. Sgt. Mattingly says he and Taylor were both victimized by Walker in his new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/12-Seconds-Dark-Officers-Firsthand\/dp\/1956007016\">12 Seconds In The Dark.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the wide-ranging conversation which broke down the night Taylor was shot and killed by police and the aftermath, Pool predicted that law enforcement officers in the future would be \u201cgoing to prison,\u201d meaning that they will be arrested if they take certain steps to protect businesses and lives during potential future riots, like the uprisings during the summer of 2020 surrounding the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans, like Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd here\u2019s the Catch 22 in that, I\u2019ve sworn an oath to protect and to serve,\u201d Mattingly explained. \u201cAnd as a citizen, I\u2019m looking at the cops going, \u2018Why are you not acting when they\u2019re burning our stuff down?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow they\u2019re being told by command, they follow orders, unfortunately, \u2014 sometimes that\u2019s good, sometimes that\u2019s bad \u2014\u00a0 they\u2019re following orders and they\u2019re told to stand down,\u201d Mattingly said of police. \u201cAnd, a lot of them are looking at it now\u2026going, \u2018If I act I\u2019m going to prison., Screw that, that building ain\u2019t worth me going to prison.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe citizens are mad at you because you\u2019re letting stuff burn,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe government\u2019s mad at you if you do an act or they come at you, so it\u2019s a no-win situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SgtMattingly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sgtmattingly<\/a> on the catch 22 cops are in when riots happen: &#8220;The citizens are mad at you because you&#8217;re letting stuff burn. The government&#8217;s mad at you if you do act or they come at you, so it&#8217;s a no win situation.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ng4IQiMDux\">pic.twitter.com\/ng4IQiMDux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1508974646795948036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mattingly also added that his biggest fear has always been, \u201cI don\u2019t want to accidentally shoot or kill the wrong person. I mean that\u2019s just a thought you\u2019re constantly playing\u2026because the fear is, \u2018I only want to do the right thing, I don\u2019t want to overstep these boundaries and in this position take somebody\u2019s life because that\u2019s a pretty heavy burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for why the book is titled, \u201c12 seconds,\u201d Mattingly said that was the amount of time it took for the raid and subsequent shooting of Taylor to occur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe title comes from the time that door was open until it was silent, no gunshot, the chaos stopped,\u201d Mattingly explained. \u201cAnd that was about 10-12 seconds from what we\u2019ve tried to reenact it and see, and so much happens, so much chaos, so many things go through your mind in that 12 seconds that it\u2019s just amazing how much damage can be done in that small amount of time and how much aftermath damage. The city, the country, the nation. From 12 seconds, and it\u2019s just, it\u2019s sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SgtMattingly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sgtmattingly<\/a> shares the meaning behind the title of his book, &#8220;12 Seconds In The Dark&#8221; published by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyWireBooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dailywirebooks<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s just amazing how much damage can be done in that small amount of time and how much aftermath damage. The city, the country, the nation. From 12 seconds.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sBszLdEDux\">pic.twitter.com\/sBszLdEDux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1508977014711242759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the book\u2019s Amazon page, Mattingly corrects the record on a myriad of stories that were distorted in national media, including.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The officers followed standard forced-entry protocol\u2014and even gave the suspect more time than usual to respond before entering.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Taylor\u2019s boyfriend inside the apartment most certainly knew\u00a0it was the police who were at his door, despite falsely claiming the police did not announce or identify themselves.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Breonna should not have died that night, but her death did not happen the way the media told you.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In this gritty and suspenseful true story, Mattingly sets the record straight on this shocking story that gripped the nation.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The entire episode of Timcast IRL can be seen here:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Louisville police sergeant John Mattingly, who was wounded during the Breonna Taylor raid in 2020, sat down with Tim Pool for an episode of his YouTube show, Timcast IRL,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"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-1408720","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\/1408720","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408720\/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=1408720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}