Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell traveled to Bullitt County on Thursday announce its inclusion into a federal program focused on high-intensity drug trafficking areas.
uses excessive force, including unjustified neck restraints and the unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers, conducts searches based on invalid warrants, unlawfully executes warrants without knocking and announcing, unlawfully stops, searches, detains and arrests people, unlawfully discriminates against black people in enforcement activities, violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech, critical of policing, and along with louisville metro, discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities when responding to them in crisis. abby, the report also found that this pattern of abuse extended to people with disabilities as well as people who are suffering from sexual assaults, sexual assault victims were also being abused. that stood out to me, too, evan. thank you very much for breaking all of that down. and for more on this let s go
louisville police department, not only using things like invalid court warrants, trying to disproportionately target african americans for searches, they were using things like pre textual traffic stops which is somebody driving with a broken light, for instance, and they re using that to try to find other crimes. you see excessive force, you see unlawful stops of african americans throughout this entire louisville metropolitan area. it s also a problem that according to the justice department the louisville police department knew very much, very much much was existing for years and years, they did internal reports to study the problem, came up with these reports and then just buried them. here is attorney general merrick garland explaining more of what they found. the report finds that lmpd