This is a bonus edition of the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, September 25th.

I'm Kate Trinko.

Today we're going to talk to Amy Swarer, a legal fellow at the Heritage

Foundation about the death of Brianna Taylor, the role that a no-knock warrant

played, and the grand jury's decision. And don't forget if you're enjoying this podcast please be sure to leave a review or a

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Joining me today is Amy Swearr, a legal fellow in the Meese Center at the Heritage Foundation.

Amy, thanks for joining us.

Thank you so much for having me.

Okay, so right now we're again seeing massive protests, unrest over the grand jury's decision not to charge any of the three police officers with Brianna Taylor's death.

Now, for those who haven't been following the case closely, Brianna Taylor was a 26 year old black woman in an emergency room technician.

She was killed this March after three police officers had a warrant to enter her residence and in the course of that she was shot by one of the police officers.

So I want to get into the grand jury, its decision on this case, but let's start with the beginning. Why was there a warrant for Taylor's residence in the first place?

Right, so I think this is the thing that has been confusing to a lot of people. So when we break this down, I think the short version is it was sort of a questionable guilt by association type issue.

So you have Brianna Taylor who by all accounts was a completely

upstanding citizen. You know you talked about an incredible medical career that

you had as a technician, been awarded for that, and by all

accounts has done nothing criminal. And then there is her ex-boyfriend who

essentially, you know, it's kind of the details are a little

sketchy but apparently that this ex boyfriend had been caught up in some sort of

either not drug trafficking but like distribution of drugs

illegal narcotics type of thing and so they were really focused on this ex

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