[NOISE] >> Protesters
gathered outside of the Carroll County Courthouse in Carrollton,
Kentucky, to speak out against the hiring of the cop who shot and
killed Brianna Taylor in Kentucky in 2020.
He has been hired as a deputy by another police department in the same state.
Now, Myles Cosgrove is the cop in question.
He was hired as a sheriff's deputy by the Carroll County Sheriff's Department.
Carroll County Chief deputy sheriff said this about the new hire,
quote, we think he will help.
I can't even believe he said this.
Reduce the flow of drugs in our area and reduce property crimes.
We felt like he was a good candidate to help us in our county.
Now, this comes despite Cosgrove being one of the three Louisville officers who
shot at Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker during a no knock warrant.
Breonna Taylor was sleeping in her room when the no knock warrant took place.
Now, think about this.
You have cops just with no warning busting into your home.
At that point, Walker thought that they were intruders.
He had a gun of his own and thought he was protecting himself,
defending himself when he shot his gun.
And then that gave these cops the idea that it's totally
okay to indiscriminately start shooting into the apartment.
At that point, Brianna Taylor, who had been resting, got shot and killed.
She died in the hallway of her own apartment.
So he had fired.
Cosgrove had fired 16 of those shots,
including the one that killed Brianna Taylor.
But Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron did not charge Cosgrove,
saying that he was justified in the shooting
because of Taylor's boyfriend firing his weapon first.
>> Yeah.
So, look, I have to confess that I'm not at all surprised by this.
We did the story last week of the Oklahoma sheriff and the council member, et cetera,
talking about the good old days when they used to be able to lynch black guys, and
they've been asked to resign, and as far as I know, still have not resigned.
No one has fired them for being pro lynchings.
So in this case, people are particularly
outraged because it was the wrong house.
She was in her own house, sleeping and obviously perfectly innocent, and
it's a woman.
So that all those factors combine to make this an outrageous case.
But when you look at it from a cop's perspective,
cop gets fired at, shoots 16 bullets indiscriminately, by the way.
He went through the wall, almost hit a baby in another apartment.
Okay?
But to a cop, that seems super normal.
I mean, I got shot at, and I'm not gonna spray the place.
I'm gonna spray the place.
And look, there's one thing about the cops, just to be perfectly fair.
They didn't know it was the wrong house.
They thought it was the right house.
The guy who got the warrant was not there.
Right. The warrant was wrong.
So they go in, they get shot at.
He sprays the place, nearly kills the baby, kills Breonna Taylor.
Right.
So he should not work as a cop again because you can't
indiscriminately fire like that.
But at the same time, fellow cops are gonna look at that and
go, you got shot at, and then shot back.
They can't wait to hire that guy.
So look, guys, when you go to do hiring and this sucks,
but if there's a blemish on your record in any field,
let alone policing, it makes it really hard to hire that person, okay?
>> I mean, it's supposed to.
>> Yeah, but not in policing, but in the business world.
And oftentimes it makes it unfairly hard to get another job, right.
In policing, no way they're gonna hire that guy because they went out
of their way to hire that guy.
They could have hired many other guys.
And I guarantee you, the guy who hired him was like, you got shot at, brother.
Forget I'm hiring you, okay, to shoot back.
So that's a very active, conscious decision.
And so understand that if you're in that county, the guy who makes
decisions in that county is telling you, I don't have a lot of regard for your life.
>> No.
100% cenk.
Right?
Look, this adds insult to injury because Cosgrove didn't
face the criminal consequences for what he did, right?
Which was bad enough.
You have the Attorney General, Daniel Cameron,
refusing to press charges, so that's point number one.
But then to add insult to injury, hiring this guy after the fact communicates
to the people in this town, we don't actually care about your safety.
We don't hire based on whether the candidate we're hiring is interested
in protecting and serving.
An innocent woman was shot dead by police in her own home.
She did nothing wrong, and there was no justice in that case.
And again, to increase or extend that injustice,
you now have a different police department in the same state hiring the cop who shot
the bullet that ultimately killed Breonna Taylor.
It's just so wrong.
>> But it's so wrong.
But the only reason we're talking about it is because it's such a well known case.
After Breonna.
>> This happens all the time.
>> After Breonna Taylor got killed, there were some protests,
but mainly there was an expectation of protests in Kentucky.
Cops were out in full force just a little while after the shooting,
since there was a lot of people gathered.
There's a local guy who sells barbecue in the area, and
he set up a little shop and he was selling barbecue.
Everybody loves the guy, right?
Cops fired into the crowd to disperse.
The crowd killed him.
Now, to me, that's at least as egregious.
But nobody's tracking that cop.
Nobody's gonna get punished.
They're all gonna get rehired.
For cops, this is pretty standard operating procedure.
It's just about in the Breonna Taylor case, because it's made so much news but
this is fairly standard, unfortunately, for police departments across the country.
>> And this is why people don't trust policing, right?
I think that we need serious and deep reforms of
our policing in America, and we're not doing that.
We're not doing that at all.
We're doing the opposite.
We're continuing the failed, disastrous practices that have led to
the distrust and have been the antithesis of keeping people safe.
>> Yeah, look, guys, last thing here, of course, there's the extremes.
Always the extremes.
Yes, the right wing says, no, cops are awesome.
Thin blue line.
We support them.
No, as long as they're not arresting Republicans like Donald Trump,
then we love them and let them beat the crap out of people.
And I don't wanna hear I think every black person in the country is lying about
police abuse, outrageous things, and then the left comes in and goes,
just defund the police entirely.
Why would we do these insane extremes?
Why don't we do what the great majority of the American people want,
which is reform the police.
Massive reform.
Not a little reform.
Guys here, I'll give you a quick example.
There's all of those rape test kits that are out there that are untested.
I think they're in the millions, right?
Why don't you do policing?
Why are you going around doing stop and
frisk that targets minorities almost exclusively?
96% of the people that are stopped are black or Latino,
not based on whether they're criminals, but they stop based on race.
Giant waste of time does not keep anyone safe.
Instead, take it and test the drapekheads.
Do policing, solve cases.
They almost never solve any cases.
So what we need is actual policing.
We don't need police, and we don't need weird
thugs that think that they're the biggest gangs in America and are above the law.
We need actual police to protect the community.
It's not a wild ask.
It's not a crazy ask.
It's the most basic ask of all time.
And we just can't get anything in this country that the American people actually.