Ep. 571 - Everything You’ve Heard About The Breonna Taylor Case Is A Lie
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, violent insurrectionists descend on Louisville in response to the grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case. But almost everything BLM has said about the shooting of Breonna Taylor is a lie. Not that the truth matters to them, but we’ll talk about the truth of the case today. Also Five Headlines including the Left fretting that Donald Trump won’t submit to a “peaceful transfer of power.” That’s an interesting charge for them to make, as they continue to burn down our cities. And in our Daily Cancellation I will cancel the CDC for trying to cancel Halloween.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, violent insurrectionists descend this time on Louisville in response to the grand jury decision, the Breonna Taylor case.
But almost everything BLM has said about the shooting of Breonna Taylor is a lie.
Not that the truth matters to them, of course, but we'll talk about what the truth is in this case today.
Also, five headlines, including the left fretting that Donald Trump won't submit to a peaceful transfer of power.
That's a pretty rich charge coming from them as they continue to burn down our cities.
And in our daily cancellation, I will cancel the CDC for trying to cancel Halloween.
I won't let them do it.
I won't let them get away with it.
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Well, it's being said that rioting broke out in Louisville over the grand jury's decision, the Breonna Taylor case, but that's wrong on two levels.
For one, the chaos in Louisville, as in so many other cities across the country, is funded and organized.
Moments after the grand jury returned only three counts of wanton endangerment against one officer for firing shots that went into a neighbor's apartment, but no charges for Taylor's death, U-Hauls packed with pre-made signs and riot shields were already on the scene being unloaded.
Now, it's clear that there's orchestration and planning involved.
Also, these are not mere riots.
These are violent uprisings with the clear and often stated goal of destabilizing the government and burning down the system.
In other words, it's insurrection.
So rather than riots breaking out, this was another campaign of insurrection being carried
out.
And the distinction is important.
It's also important, though not relevant to the insurrectionists, that the narrative surrounding
the Breonna Taylor case, advanced by BLM and Antifa and their allies in the media, has
proven to be almost entirely false.
The narrative in these high-profile police shootings is always false, of course.
The only question is one of degree, just how wrong will it turn out to be?
In nearly all of the high-profile cases over the past few months especially, that answer has generally varied between extremely and incredibly.
For example, the narrative around the Jacob Blake shooting in Kenosha.
Claim that he was unarmed and shot by cops while trying to get into his car after stopping to break up a fight.
In reality, he was harassing his alleged rape victim, was armed with a knife, was reaching into his ex-girlfriend's car, which he was allegedly trying to steal, when the officer fired.
In the shooting of Dion Kaye in D.C., we were at first told that Kaye was an unarmed child shot in the back.
As it turns out, he was an adult, a known gang member, and was shot in the chest while running towards officers with his gun drawn.
The case of Ricardo Munoz in Lancaster.
Activists told us that he was a mentally disabled person, randomly gunned down outside his mother's house.
Some even said, there were some BLM people online saying he was an autistic child murdered by the cops.
In reality, Munoz was 27 years old, was shot because he chased after a police officer while wielding a large knife.
BLM has gotten almost every fact of every case wrong.
Going all the way back to Michael Brown in 2014, who was claimed to have been murdered with his hands up while begging for his life.
Forensic evidence, eyewitness reports eventually confirmed that he was actually shot while assaulting a police officer and trying to steal his weapon.
And this after he had assaulted a store clerk and committed a robbery.
So what about Breonna Taylor?
Now, initially it was reported that police burst into the wrong apartment without knocking during a botched drug raid and murdered Taylor while she was asleep.
That would be indefensible if it was true, but once again, it wasn't.
As Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron explained in his press conference on Wednesday, officers were serving a legal warrant at the right location, and they did knock before entering.
An independent witness corroborates that they announced and identified themselves.
Upon entering the residence, Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, opened fire on officers.
When police returned fire, Breonna Taylor was hit and killed.
Here's Cameron at the press conference explaining some of this.
Evidence shows that officers both knocked and announced their presence at the apartment.
The officer's statements about their announcement are corroborated by an independent witness who was near in proximity to Apartment 4.
In other words, the warrant was not served as a no-knock warrant.
When officers were unable to get anyone to answer or open the door to Apartment 4, decision was made to breach the door.
After breaching the door, Sergeant Mattingly was the first and only officer to enter the residence.
Sergeant Mattingly identified two individuals standing beside one another at the end of the hall, a male and a female.
In his statement, he says that the male was holding a gun, arms extended, in a shooting stance.
Sergeant Mattingly saw the man's gun fire, heard a boom, and immediately knew he was shot as a result of feeling heat in his upper thigh.
Kenneth Walker fired the shot that hit Sergeant Mattingly, and there is no evidence to support that Sergeant Mattingly was hit by friendly fire from other officers.
Now, we should mention a warrant was issued for Taylor's apartment because there was reason to suspect that Taylor, or at least her apartment, was in some way involved in her criminal ex-boyfriend's drug enterprise.
As court documents show, Taylor's car was spotted multiple times outside of a known drug house that was under surveillance by law enforcement.
Taylor is on tape, reportedly, referring to the drug house while speaking to her then-boyfriend while he was in jail.
In 2016, the body of a murder victim was allegedly found in a car rented by Taylor, which she said she had lent to her boyfriend, shortly after her death.
The ex-boyfriend was again recorded in jailhouse phone conversations claiming that Taylor was, quote, handling his money.
The point is that the warrant was issued for entirely valid reasons.
The cops executed it according to the law, following all the proper protocols.
Only opened fire after Walker had begun shooting at them.
There is no basis for calling this a murder, much less a racist murder by agents of white supremacy.
It's a tragic accident, a catastrophic confluence of events.
Many other terms could be used to describe it, but the fact remains that officers were serving a lawful warrant, acting within the bounds of the law, and responding with lethal force to the lethal force being used against them.
As usual, those accusing the officers of criminal conduct have not bothered to explain what they might have done differently.
Should they have not obtained the warrant for the apartment in the first place, despite having credible reason to believe that it had ties to drug trafficking?
Should they not have executed the warrant?
Should they not have, or should they have waited outside for someone to come to the door, and if the residents refused to answer, then just pack up and go home?
Or should they have not returned fire once they were fired upon?
Instead, you know, diving to the floor or hiding behind furniture, hoping the assailant stops before a bullet hits one of them in the face.
Now, BLM militants, if they were being honest, would actually answer yes to all of those questions.
They've made it clear that their problem with the police is that the police exist.
Anything the police do, therefore, is wrong.
For the simple fact, the police are the ones doing it.
For BLM and its allies, the fight against police brutality is a fight against policing itself.
All law enforcement is brutality in their minds.
And anybody who dies at the hands of police, any black person anyway, has been murdered, no matter what, regardless of context.
This is the radicalism that holds our cities hostage, the madness to which we are all supposed to bow.
It dresses itself in the garb of racial justice.
It carries signs that say things like equality.
But this is all a decidedly unconvincing disguise for their radical assault on law and order and civilization itself.
And that's what's happening.
And now it's happening in Louisville.
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Okay, speaking of the insurrection, two Louisville police officers, at least two, were shot by a BLM militant last night.
The violence wasn't just in Louisville.
In Portland, they were throwing Molotov cocktails, as you can see here.
Somebody, well, there we go, just peacefully firebombing the cops there.
In Seattle, here they are beating a cop over the head with a metal bat.
Peacefully, of course.
This, of course, has been going on in those two cities for months, literally months.
Which is why those mayors should be in prison.
They should be forcibly deposed and thrown in prison.
They have abdicated their responsibilities, and they have to be dealt with.
Wait until after the election if that's what you need to do, but then this cannot be allowed to continue.
This goes way beyond politics.
But that's Portland and Seattle.
Back to Louisville where the riots, the insurrection, was very violent and it involved the attempted murder of at least two cops.
Here's how Reuters described it, by the way.
They said, demonstrations in Louisville wore on past nightfall in defiance of a 9 p.m.
curfew and remained mostly peaceful until several gunshots rang out in the midst of a skirmish between protesters and heavily armed police.
Mostly peaceful until they tried to blow the brains out of two cops.
Yes, well, you know, things are always peaceful until they aren't, right?
The Normandy landings were peaceful until the shooting started.
The town of Sharpsburg was quaint and quiet and peaceful until the Battle of Antietam commenced.
That's how it works.
ABC 11 had a different spin.
They said, Louisville officer shot, but unclear if tied to protests.
Yes.
Kind of reminds me of Titanic passenger drowns, but unclear if tied to ship sinking.
Same general idea.
Now, Democratic Governor Andy Beshear in Kentucky spoke last night about the shooting of the police officers, and here's what he had to say.
Hi, everyone.
I know that with the events of today, many people are feeling powerful emotions.
Whether that's frustration, anger, concern.
And many people have been out on the streets, especially in Louisville tonight, giving voice to those emotions.
But sadly, we have seen at least one individual turn what were non-violent ways of expressing ourselves into the shooting of at least two law enforcement officers.
We know that the answer to violence is never violence, and we are thinking about those two officers and their families tonight.
So I'm asking everybody, please, go home.
Go home tonight.
There will be many times over the coming days where there will be an opportunity to be heard, and so many people are listening right now.
As your Governor, I've promised to listen.
Let's make sure we don't see any more violence tonight.
And let's make sure that we find ways of expressing ourselves moving forward, where your point and other people's points are made, and that hopefully we can not just listen, but we can hear.
Everybody out there, stay safe.
We care about each and every one of you.
Good night.
Yeah, that's what we call bare minimum, weak, pathetic.
Obviously, he had to say something.
He couldn't just completely ignore, as much as he probably would have liked to, the shooting of two of his police officers.
But that's about as weak As a denunciation goes, and keep in mind, now if I didn't know any better, and I didn't know the context, and I was just listening to the tone and the way this is approached, I would think that he was talking about, I don't know, some people spray painting, just some petty vandalism or something.
This is the attempted murder of two police officers during violent riots, and this is how Bashir approaches it.
And even that, he's going to get flack from the left for that.
As pathetic and weak as it was.
Number two, what's the media and the left freaking out about today?
Not the violent revolution happening in our streets.
They love that.
Not the cops who were shot, bombed, beaten last night.
They're in favor of that too.
No, instead it's this.
This is what they're worried about.
This is what Trump said during a press conference, and we are supposed to be very, very concerned and scared and worried about this.
Listen.
Win or lose or draw in this election, will you commit here today for a peaceful transferal of power after the election?
There has been rioting in Louisville, there's been rioting in many cities across this country, red and your so-called red and blue states.
Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election?
Well, we're going to have to see what happens.
You know that I've been complaining very strongly about The ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.
I understand that, but people are rioting.
Do you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful transfer of power?
We want to get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very peaceful, there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation.
The ballots are out of control.
You know it.
And you know who knows it better than anybody else?
The Democrats know it better than anybody else.
Go ahead.
Oh no, he's not committing to the peaceful transfer of power.
He's going to refuse.
He's going to barricade himself in the White House and refuse to come out.
He's going to stage a military coup, right?
Yeah, that's a real concern.
First of all, listen to the question again.
Trump was asked if he would commit to transfer of power, win, lose, or draw.
So they were trying to get him to agree to transferring power even if he wins.
Very stupid question, and Trump's answer to it was fine.
The only criticism I would have, the only one.
Is that I think he should have concluded his answer by politely inviting that reporter to kiss his ass.
I think that would have been, that's the polite thing to do, and so I would have preferred that, but other than that, it was a fine answer.
And also, it's, yeah, if you want to misunderstand the point on purpose, then you always can, of course, if you're a dishonest person.
But it's clear what Trump is getting at is like, I'm not, if I actually lose, okay, but there are concerns that the story will be that he lost even though he didn't.
He's worried about the election being stolen from him.
Biden and the Democrats are saying the exact same sorts of things.
So if you have a problem with that kind of rhetoric, it is really on both sides.
This is not a what about, this is real, this is both sides.
Both sides are saying this.
So whatever criticism you have of that, it applies across the board.
But also, I mean, the main point is this.
You just cannot pretend, or you can pretend all you want, but you cannot be taken seriously in pretending that you care about a peaceful transfer of power While your people are currently, as we speak, in the process of burning down cities, shooting cops, beating cops, firebombing cops, okay?
You cannot, months and months of this, and now you're pretending that you care about a peaceful transfer of power.
It's too late for a peaceful transfer of power!
We are already in the midst of a decidedly non-peaceful time in our country, and that is all on the left.
Peaceful transfer of power.
Yes, yes.
I'm very concerned about the peaceful transfer of power, he thought to himself as he threw a Molotov cocktail at police.
And not only that, by the way, but they've also, they're openly promising to burn it all down, burn the system down, if Trump is reelected.
So, yes, but they're concerned about peaceful transfer of power, sure.
Number three, President Trump yesterday announced an executive order.
Let's listen to this.
I will always protect the vital role of religion and prayer in American society, and I will always defend the sacred right to life.
Today I am announcing that I will be signing the Born Alive executive order to ensure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve.
This is our sacrosanct moral duty.
We are also increasing federal funding for the neonatal research to ensure that every child has the very best chance to thrive and to grow.
So the Daily Wire reports that this order is expected to mirror the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which states that a healthcare practitioner who is present must exercise the same degree of care as reasonably provided to another child born alive at the same gestational age, and to immediately admit the child to a hospital.
The bill also requires a healthcare practitioner or other employee to immediately report any
failure to comply with this requirement to law enforcement.
A person who violates this requirement is subject to criminal penalties, a fine, up
to five years in prison, or both.
Additionally, an individual who intentionally kills or attempts to kill a child born alive
is subject to prosecution for murder.
And all of that is great.
That's exactly what it should be.
Any sane person agrees with this.
This is an issue that Republicans and conservatives should be talking about.
Trump is right to act on it.
And yeah, let the left go out as they are now and as they will continue to and openly advocate for infanticide.
But remember again, totally peaceful.
A peaceful infanticide.
Number four, let's get to some important news here.
You can look at this picture right here.
That's a giant rat.
pulled out of a sewer.
True story, okay, the New York Post has the story.
It says, Mexico City cleanup crews lived everybody's worst nightmare on September 18th
when they discovered what looked like a monster drowned rat while dredging the sewers.
The Buick-sized rodent was part of 22 tons of litter the workers had removed from the city's drainage tunnels
following heavy rains.
During the unsavory gig, the workers reportedly turned a corner and encountered what they described as a giant rat, which sat hunched over and sported incredibly realistic fur.
As it turns out, the vermin was actually a Halloween prop.
Oh, that's disappointing.
That had been washed out of its warehouse by the storm.
I mean, it was unlikely, but I was really rooting for this to be real.
You know, choose the form of your destructor kind of thing, and if we have to have the apocalypse, then I think an apocalypse at the hands of oversized rats would be I don't know how enjoyable it would be, but it would certainly be appropriate.
A woman named Evelyn Lopez has since come forward to claim the rat, which she reportedly created from scratch for Halloween.
Lopez said it had gone missing years ago during a torrential downpour, and no one could help her retrieve it.
So it's been, she couldn't find that huge thing for years and now she finally has found it.
Well, I'm glad for their reunion.
Number five, this couldn't come soon enough.
Racism has finally been solved.
It's over, folks.
You can go home.
Uncle Ben's, the rice brand, has announced that it will take the word uncle off of its product.
And also remove the picture of a black man from the product.
In order to combat racism, you understand.
So they made this big announcement on their website.
You can see here, Ben's Original, that's the new name.
We've listened, we've learned, we're changing.
It says, over the last several weeks, we have listened to thousands of consumers, our own associates, and other stakeholders from around the world.
We understand the inequities that were associated with the name and face of the Uncle Ben's brand.
What?
What inequities were associated with the name of a box of rice?
And so blah blah blah they decided to change it.
This of course just doesn't make any sense at all.
How are we helping to solve racism by taking a black man's face off of the packaging?
How is that, I thought, so we have like both strategies happening here.
Because on one hand we're told we need more representation and racial minorities need to be more visible and that's why they're doing, apparently they announced they're going to do, they're doing a Friends remake with an all black cast and so there's a lot of that sort of thing going on and we're going to combat racism that way.
But we're also going to combat it with less visibility by taking black faces off of packaging and that sort of thing.
Doesn't really make a lot of sense to me.
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Now, today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel the CDC.
It's long past time for the CDC to face its cancellation.
There have been many straws straining this particular camel's back.
The straw that finally broke it is this.
As you can see, the Center for Disease Control has a whole page on its website giving guidance on holiday celebrations.
Because, of course, in a free country, the first thing a citizen ought to do before observing a holiday is check with a public health organization and consult a series of federal agencies before deciding how to celebrate it.
This is why, in my household, our tradition on Christmas morning is that we all wake up early in the morning in our Christmas jammies.
Yes, I have Christmas jammies, and yes, I do call them jammies.
What of it?
And we all wake up, we go downstairs, we gather around the Christmas tree, and then we submit an application to the Department of Health and Human Services requesting a waiver that will permit us to open presents.
And usually it only takes about two to three business days to come through, and the kids really enjoy it, it's a lot of fun.
Now, in any case, here's the CDC, and this is them explaining their guidelines.
It says, as many people in the United States begin to plan for fall and winter holiday celebrations, CDC offers the following considerations to help protect individuals, their families, friends, and communities from COVID-19.
These are considerations meant to supplement, not replace, any state, local, territorial, or tribal health and safety laws, rules, and regulations with which holiday gatherings must comply.
When planning to host a holiday celebration, you should assess current COVID-19 levels in your community to determine whether to postpone, cancel, or limit the number of attendees.
Then it proceeds to give guidance on all fall holidays.
And it lists those holidays as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Navratri, Diwali, and Thanksgiving.
So I'll have to consult their Diwali guidelines later, but here's what it says for Halloween.
It says, avoid these higher-risk activities to help prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.
And then here are the high-risk activities.
Participating in traditional trick-or-treating, where treats are handed to children who go door-to-door.
Having trunk-or-treat, where treats are handed out from trunks of cars lined up in large parking lots.
Attending crowded costume parties held indoors.
Going to an indoor haunted house, where people may be crowded together and screaming.
Going on hayrides or tractor rides with people who are not in your household.
Using alcohol or drugs, which can cloud judgment and increase risky behaviors.
Traveling to a rural fall festival that is not in your community if you live in an area with community spread of COVID-19.
So those are the things that you must avoid according to your public health overlords.
But not to worry, they do provide some low-risk, safe alternatives.
These low-risk activities include Carving or decorating pumpkins with members of your household and displaying them.
Carving or decorating pumpkins outside, at a safe distance, with neighbors or friends.
Decorating your house, apartment, or living space.
Doing a Halloween scavenger hunt where children are given lists of Halloween-themed things to look for while they walk outdoors from house to house, admiring Halloween decorations at a distance.
Having a virtual Halloween costume contest.
Having a Halloween movie night with people you live with.
Having a scavenger hunt style trick-or-treat search with your household members in or around your home rather than going house to house.
Decorate your home for a festive Halloween party and then invite no one over.
Just sit there in your living room, alone, staring at the wall, weeping quietly while gorging yourself on fun-sized Snickers.
Or, as I like to call it, a normal Tuesday night.
These suggestions are helpful from the CDC, but I'm afraid they may be giving us too much latitude.
Some of these activities seem very risky, in fact, like carving a pumpkin.
There's the obvious danger that the knife might slip, you might disembowel yourself accidentally.
I have two cousins and an uncle who all died that way.
It was a bloody night.
Which, you know, wasn't such a bad thing, I guess, given that it was Halloween.
But also, when you go outside to place your pumpkin on the porch, Can you be sure that at the same moment your neighbor might not be walking to his car across the street and then cough and a stiff breeze might carry the COVID virus directly into your nostrils?
I mean, you know, you might say, well, then I'll wear a mask.
Well, of course you will, but then the virus might enter through your eyes.
And then you say, well, then I'll wear a face shield.
Okay, fine, but the virus might go into your ears or it might attach yourself to your clothes.
And then later that night, while you're getting changed for bed, it might leap into any number of exposed orifices.
Now, the risk of any of this happening is somewhere in the neighborhood of like .00000000001%, but it's not non-existent.
There is some risk.
And what we've learned in recent months is that we simply cannot afford to take any risk of any kind at all, ever, period.
Unless, of course, you are not a lunatic, and you prefer to actually still live a human life, you selfish bastard.
And maybe you've come to terms with the fact that you're mortal, and risk will always be there, and eventually you will die.
Probably not of COVID, but of something.
So hiding in your home, huddled under your blanket, is not only a pathetic and dreary existence, but ultimately futile.
You're gonna die anyway.
If that's the case, then you will go out and still trick-or-treat.
Because, quite obviously, you know, in all seriousness, trick-or-treating is not high-risk at all.
You're outside.
Kids are the ones doing it.
They aren't likely to contract or spread the virus anyway.
They're already wearing, many of them, masks and gloves for the costumes.
They aren't bunched together in tight groups.
Their interactions with the people answering the door are brief.
If this is high risk, then literally anything is, which brings us back to huddling in our homes under the blankets.
What I can say is, high risk or not, I will be out with my kids trick-or-treating on Halloween.
So you better answer your damned door.
Because we're coming.
And if you don't answer, we might throw a brick through the window.
Though, we would only be doing that, of course, for racial justice and peace.
And because we're mad you didn't give us any candy.
Which I'm increasingly convinced is also the motivation behind many of these rioters.
They're just mad that we're not giving them candy.
But the CDC is cancelled finally for all of that.
And Halloween.
They say Halloween is cancelled.
I say it's a go.
Congratulations.
You're welcome.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
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