This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, June 13th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

While much of the rest of the country has nominally been mourning the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police.

In Louisville, Kentucky, the focus has been Brianna Taylor.

The 26-year-old EMT shot eight times by police in a no-knock drug raid that perhaps not surprisingly turned up no drugs.

Louisville this week banned those warrants.

Bradley Balco, media fellow at the Cato Institute and columnist at the Washington Post

says that warrant was

illegal. We spoke Thursday just hours before the Louisville City Council

banned no-knock warrant. I am speaking to you from Louisville, Kentucky. You're in Nashville, Tennessee. And of course,

Louisville has seen better days. The last few weeks here have been pretty rough for a lot of people. And so you wrote a piece

recently detailing the warrant that was used to enter the apartment of Brianna Taylor who was killed by police in March.

You say that warrant was illegal. Before we get to that, what do we know about how warrants tend to be issued and executed for

people's homes?

So what we, the vast majority of no-knock warrants are issued to serve search warrants on people who are suspected of drug crimes.

And who are suspected of drug crimes and the way it's supposed to happen is you know you

get a warrant you go you if you're the police you knock you announce yourselves and

you wait an appropriate amount of time for somebody to come to the door.

And the idea here is that you're giving them notice and the ability to let the police in without suffering violence to their person and the destruction of their property.

And this is kind of couched in a centuries old doctrine called the Castle Doctrine,

which states that the home should be a place of peace and

sanctuary and the government should only violate that peace and

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