129. First Through the Door at the Breonna Taylor Incident | Guest Sgt John Mattingly

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Ryan Tillman

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Sgt. John Mattingly was the one knocking on the door the night of the Breonna Taylor incident. We have done a deep dive on this before. Now we get to here from his perspective everything that happened.

He has a new book out called "12 Seconds in the Dark." This book outlines the beginning of his career and the details of the Breonna Taylor incident and what has happened afterward.

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0:00.0	So I'm on the left of the door, Mike's on the right. As the door comes open from right to left, it swings in. I can see the living room to my right. And so I cut the pie, I break it down to my real estate runs out. And then I have no option but to step into the doorway to see down the hall. And this whole time, people are yelling, please search one. Please search one. And this is everybody at this point.
0:21.1	This isn't just me.
0:22.1	So there's no way the people inside didn't hear it.
0:24.7	Impossible.
0:25.7	I mean, the person upstairs heard us and came out.
0:27.6	So there's no way the people in that apartment didn't hear.
0:30.2	So as soon as I put my body in this door frame, I'll see down the hall and I see something different than I've seen my entire career.
0:41.1	Yo, what's going on? Welcome to another episode of the It's Needed podcast where we discuss real
0:45.4	issues involving law enforcement in the community. It's your boy, Ryan Timwin, founder of Breaking
0:49.1	Bears United, and I'm joined today by Lyskin Wonder himself, Mr. Oh, no, it's the Po.
0:57.3	What's up? What's up, what's up, brother? Oh, you know,
1:03.0	too blessed to be stressed, too anointed to be disappointed. Ah, man, you know, I got him for days.
1:11.0	I heard that, man, I heard that. What's going on with you, Billy? Hey, I feel more official with my new table here. Bro, Billy has a I got a producer table now. He does. You know what's funny is I remember when Billy didn't have a
1:15.4	chair. He had a sitting on his baby chair. Yeah, now he's got a table. We're getting there, y'all. We
1:20.9	are moving up. You know, I got the nice sign in the background with a fresh wall. So we are moving up. It actually looks pretty legit now.
1:28.4	And we also are joined by a very, very special guest who I met two weeks ago at Officer Tatum's
1:34.2	book signing party. And after meeting this gentleman, just a phenomenal guy and really just has
1:40.8	a really good heart. And so I wanted to bring him on so that way the rest of the world could hear his heart.
1:45.9	And here I hope we all might be able to learn from him.
1:47.7	So with that being said, I want to introduce our special guest, Mr. John Mattingly.
1:51.9	And am I saying that right?
1:53.7	Yeah, Mattingly.
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