Unlike the situations concerning George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Jacob Blake and Daniel Prude, the deceased wasn't loaded on hard drugs and/or drunk, wasn't resisting arrest, and was in the company of her boyfriend, neither of whom had criminal histories.
But due to some leaked documents that have come into the hands of Louisville's WAVE-TV news we now know some facts that give us a clearer picture.
It turns out she wasn't shot in her sleep in bed. She and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, heard the knock on the apartment door - that's right, the cops knocked - and they both got out of bed and Walker drew his gun and fired, apparently thinking it was intruders. But a police officer is trained to return fire when shot, as Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly was. In the ensuing return fire, Taylor died in the hallway.
And there's more to the profile of Taylor than just that she was an EMT with no record.
You see, there was an ex-boyfriend who was still in the picture. His name is Jamarcus Glover, and he's currently on the lam. He skipped a court appearance on some drug charges in July and there's a warrant for his arrest.
(Why did this new boyfriend not object to Taylor still be in close contact with Glover? Wouldn't most guys insist on a clean break?)
Why did police go to Taylor's apartment in relation to the Glover warrant? Well, you see
An excerpt from the leaked report showed that on Feb. 14, 2020, Glover's car was towed for a parking violation. According to the report, Glover tried to file a complaint against the officer and gave Taylor's phone number as his own. Six days later, detectives from the Place Based Investigation team verified through a database that Glover was using Taylor's home address -- 3003 Springfield Drive -- as well. The PBI squad was the group of detectives assigned to investigate Glover.
Then, on Feb. 24, the report further verified the link between Taylor's home and Glover.
“Detectives received Jamarcus Glover’s bank records from Chase Bank,” the leaked report stated. “On these bank statements, Jamarcus Glover used 3003 Springfield Drive #4, Louisville, KY 40214 as his mailing address.”
For them no longer being an item, Taylor sure let Glover use her car a lot:
The leaked report stated that on Jan. 2, the PBI team saw Glover pull up to 2424 Elliott Avenue, a suspected drug house, in Taylor's car. The team was conducting surveillance on the home which was described as a "trap house," meaning drug deals allegedly took place there. The report included pictures of Taylor's car at the scene.
Then, the next day, the report revealed transcriptions of recorded jailhouse conversations between Glover and Taylor in which they talk about Adrian Walker, another suspect in the case, and the third person named in the Taylor warrant.
"You talk to Doug (Adrian Walker?)" Glover asked Taylor.
"Yeah, I did," Taylor responded. "He said he was already back at the trap."
In another conversation between the two just two hours later, Glover thanked Taylor for checking on him.
"When you're around I stress more ... ," she is quoted as saying. "I just always be worried about you ... not like you and b****, but just period with the police, like all kind of s***."
In separate phone calls on Jan. 3, the conversations ended with each telling the other that they loved each other, the documents stated. Also, from January 2016 to January 2020, Glover called Taylor 26 times from jail. Another inmate called her seven times during that period.
She loved Glover in January. By March she already had a new bedmate.
Glover was still coming to Taylor's apartment in January. A lot. To pick up packages.
According to the new information, once LMPD's tech team installed a GPS tracker on Glover's red Dodge Charger, the device indicated six trips to the 3003 Springfield Drive address in January 2020. LMPD's surveillance efforts also produced pictures of Taylor at 2424 Elliott. The report included never-before-seen images of Glover picking up packages at 3003 Springfield.
Taylor was handling Glover's finances in March.
The documents also included copious amounts of transcriptions of recorded jailhouse phone calls made by Glover, several of which were made to the mother of his child. On April 24, Glover told the woman, whom WAVE 3 News has chosen not to identify, that officers “took my car ... They got that bank statement out the armrest, boom it got Bre’s address on there.”
In transcribed conversations from the morning of March 13, hours after Taylor was killed, Glover told the woman that Taylor had $8,000 of his money.
“Bre got down like $15 (grand), she had the $8 (grand) I gave her the other day and she picked up another $6 (grand),” he said, according to the documents.
Then, a moment later, he told the woman that "Bre been handling all my money, she been handling my money ... She been handling s*** for me and cuz, it ain't just me."
And later, "I can walk in that house (Bre's) and go directly to whatever it is no problem with it," Glover said, according to the documents.
So the Kentucky Attorney General announced that the police involved in the gunfire exchange at Taylor's apartment would not be charged with anything, and, once again, a major American city erupts in civil unrest, including the shooting of two police officers.
The whole situation makes for one less false narrative for the identity-politics militants to use to insist that we have yet another round of "difficult conversations" about "systemic racism."
She was up to her eyeballs in trouble over drugs and violence, just like the four men - who happened to be black- whose shooting have led to a summer of societal breakdown.
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