Former assistant U.S. attorney and Fox News contirbutor Andrew McCarthy joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the Breonna Taylor case.
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Ainsley, a first alert
Ainsley, a first alert
two officers shot in Louisville
during violent protests over the
grand jury decision in the
Breonna Taylor case,
one former officer, Brett
Hankenson indicted on wanton
endangerment for F firing his
weapon into a nearby apartment.
Is he not facing charges
directly tied to Briana tailors?
Killing
here to react? Is former
assistantest attorney Andy
Mccarthy,
good morning to you
good morning, Ainsley
Ainsley good morning.
Did it go as you thought it
would?
Its a tragic, tragic situation,
weigh what we now know based on
the attorney general in Kentucky
said, the police did knock and
announce their presence.
It was forty minutes after midnight
and the people who are on the
inside of the apartment.
Ms Taylor and her boyfriend
were asleep,
so you know how effectively
they announced they were. The
police is a different story.
They did knock and announce
the problem. Is they come in the
door,
its a very long dark, dimly
lit hallway, and then they are
fired upon.
So the two police who come in
the door fire back and they are
the ones who ended up. One of
them ended up firing. A fatal
shot,
I think they struck Ms Taylor
six times
the one who was charged was
outside Ainsley in a parking
lot in the rear area of the
building and just started to
fire wildly.
So it was appropriate to charge
him with wanton endangerment.
The thing is, he didnt hit
anyone,
fortunately,
but you couldnt charge him with
murder, because he didnt cause
the murder,
so I think they brought the
charge against him that the law
would justify,
but I think, as the attorney
general said yesterday, the
problem with this case is that
the criminal law is not designed
or suited to answer every human
tragedy,
and this is a terrible tragedy.
It really have someone says:
look somebody enters my house
after midnight, its dark,
I dont know who it is,
might be in a dangerous
neighborhood.
Then I would do the same thing,
so it is tragic
and the guy on the outside the
police officer that was indicted
with three charges he was
outside, like you said, sliding
glass doors,
there was a window
he shot through both of those,
but the blinds were closed. So he
didnt have a line of sight
and those bullets went into a
neighbors house with a pregnant
woman, a man and a 5 year old
child,
so thats, why the three charges,
but it is tragic.
What do you say to the people
who were out there protesting
though? And they say there is no
justification?
Well, you know its. I
understand that this is caught
up in a political narrative.
I think its a very unfortunate
political narrative for the
country because it targets the
police.
If we dont have good policing,
we cant have prosperity,
we cant have protection in any
neighborhood
and what happened here is a
terrible outcome,
but you have a situation where
the police had a lawful warrant.
They were legally authorized to
come into the apartment and for
those who say that this
apartment was not connected to
the narcotics trafficking, they
are just you know, putting
their head in the sand and not
looking at the facts
that this was a narcotics
trafficking network in this
neighborhood and this apartment
was closely tied to it. And
unfortunately, Ms Taylor was
tied to the person who appears
to have been running the
network,
so the idea that it was you
know somehow wrong for the
police to be at this apartment
is belied by the fact that a
court issued the warrant to
allow them to enter
how they executed it. You know,
is a different and tragic
matter,
but I dont think the facts
there. The idea this was
unconnected, location,
Ainsley, yeah
and we dont know what they said
when they got into the
apartment.
Maybe when you have a search
warrant, you have to announce
continuously, as you are walking
into someones house and
apartment.
This is the police. We are the
police.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-24.