From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast. It's Monday, August 15th.

We'll begin today by talking about that fateful search warrant, that N-knock raid, that increasingly looks like an

abuse of power by law enforcement and the state. Did you hear about it? It turns out the search

warrant was obtained from a judge under false pretenses. It turns out they lied to the judge.

About what? Well, they lied about knowing that packages that could be drugs were being delivered to the home.

According to the Washington Post, a detective in the case will plead guilty next week to conspiring with another officer to include false information in the affidavit,

including the claim that a postal inspector had verified that a suspect in a drug

investigation was receiving packages at the rated address.

Well, if you're a little confused, here's why.

That's not about the search warrant for Mara Lago, of course.

We'll get to that one in a minute.

It's about the news that broke this weekend,

but got much less media attention about a detective who obtained a warrant to search the home

of Brianna Taylor, the search that led to her death by police gunfire in her Louisville, Kentucky

home in 2020. Apparently there was no postal inspector who said packages were being recently delivered

to Brianna Taylor's boyfriend there. The guilty plea by the detective acknowledges that the detective

named Kelly Goodlet lied to a judge about that in order to obtain the warrant that led to the

no-knock raid that left Ms. Taylor dead.

As the Washington Post reminds us, Taylor, 26, was killed when plainclosed police officers

burst into her apartment to carry out a search warrant in a drug probe. Kenneth Walker,

Taylor's boyfriend, fired one shot with his legally owned gun, striking an

officer in the leg. He later said he did not realize the people who entered the apartment

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