Why Breonna Taylor's "Killers" Will Never Be Charged

Because it was a "lawful" killing.
Not a wrong-address, no-knock raid.  A lawful-warrant, no-knock raid.  A police raid properly authorized by a courtroom judge, who found enough evidence to suspect that drug packages had been delivered there.  Breonna was in bed with a man who grabbed a gun, and immediately began shooting at police when they entered the home with the lawful warrant.  Guess what?  The cops shot back.  Poor Breonna, like the innocent children in Chicago caught in gang crossfire or hit with errant shots, became collateral damage...  God rest her soul.

But there was no crime committed by police.  Lawful warrant, being shot at...  They responded in kind. This was no Black Panther, Freddy Hampton killing.*  Yes, Breonna Taylor was truly a victim.  A woman working in public service, an EMT choosing to do good by her community.  But, she was in bed with a man with a gun who fired first at officers who then shot back...

Somebody tell "protestors" (before they too turn rioters) that no amount of shouting on the streets will change the facts:  police are allowed to protect themselves, and if they don't like that there was a lawful warrant, they should be protesting the judge, not the cops.  Even then, it sounds like it was a lawful warrant, and she just bedded down with the wrong man that night.  Too bad he lived, while she died.  He wasn't the target of the warrant, but ... he relied on the gun to protect him and shot first, hitting a police officer in the leg.  His choice to "defend" them cost Breonna her life. Sometimes, there is no justice in life, just sympathy all around.
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* To buttress claims that police were under attack, Cook County State’s Attorney Edward Hanrahan and his aides released photographs “which they said conclusively proved the Panthers opened the battle by firing a shotgun blast thru the apartment door,” according to the Tribune story.

Police also staged a filmed reenactment of the raid broadcast on WBBM-TV in which officers “crouched as if dodging bullets and held their hands as if carrying shotguns and machine guns,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

But the prosecutor’s attempt to manage the news backfired. The day after the Tribune published its story, the Sun-Times published its own Page One scoop. The photos released by Hanrahan’s office did not display bullet holes caused by a Panther fusillade but were simply nail heads, the Sun-Times reported.

Daily News columnist Mike Royko wrote that he inspected the apartment “more than once” and concluded Hanrahan’s claim that police encountered gunfire from the Panthers “doesn’t mesh with the condition of the place.”

In the months that followed, Hanrahan began to lose in the courts. On May 8, 1970, attempted-murder charges against the seven Panthers at the apartment were dropped after Hanrahan conceded ballistic tests and forensic issues undermined the state’s ability to prosecute its case. Several weeks later, the federal grand jury issued its findings and concluded that virtually all of the empty shells and bullets recovered at the scene had been fired by police weapons.

ADDED: Her death wasn't entirely in vain. A change has already come...

On June 10 the Louisville city council voted unanimously to ban no-knock search warrants.