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Tomi Lahren brutally trolled for Breonna Taylor tweet amid Louisville protests: ‘Poster child for White privilege’

Lahren tweeted: 'It is NOT an officer’s duty to gamble with his/her life so you can happily and comfortably resist arrest'

Two White policemen who fired into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, will not be prosecuted for her death because their use of force was justified, and a third was charged with endangering her neighbors, Kentucky's attorney general said on Wednesday, September 23. As soon as the judgment was passed, protests fuelled on the Internet. Social media platforms were already bursting with reactions against the judgment when Fox News journalist Tomi Lahren's tweet fuelled the Internet's anger. Lahren sent out a tweet, presumably about the judgment, proving how little she knew about the case.

Taylor was reportedly asleep at the moment of the no-knock raid and had no contact with the police when they fired dozens of bullets into her South End apartment in a narcotics probe. However, Lahren suggested Taylor should have simply not resisted arrest and tweeted, "It is NOT an officer’s duty to gamble with his/her life so you can happily and comfortably resist arrest."

Soon, the tweet went viral and people started correcting her for what she wrote, but instead of deleting the tweet, Lahren tweeted again to claim that “the Left” lied about what happened. She also claimed that Black Lives Matter protesters are burning down “yet another community” in spite of the fact that nothing was on fire less than half-an-hour after the news broke. "What happened to Breonna Taylor is a horrible tragedy but for the Left to assert the officers came in to attack her in a blind and racist rage is a LIE and to burn down and ravage yet another community over it is not justice and not acceptable," she wrote. Within an hour Lahren tweeted again saying, "Regardless of what the race-baiters on the Left encourage you to believe, you DO NOT have the right to destroy the property of others or the community because you didn’t get your way. #LawAndOrder."

As soon as her bizarre comments came to light, people started slamming the political commentator. One user said, "Tell me this... why is the thug/angry narrative pointed most to black men and women. Who shot up the Charleston church? Who followed an unarmed black boy when told not to and killed him? And why should a woman be gunned down in her own house without a warrant?" Another commented, "Breonna Taylor was sleeping when police invaded her home, shot her, and shot so many rounds that some went through a neighboring apartment and nearly killed a baby. That's not being "safe." That's murder." A user even went on to tweet, "Breonna Taylor was asleep so not sure how she was resisting, f**kface."

"Maybe it’s not necessary to burst into someone’s house in the middle of the night looking for someone the police already know no longer lives there? Maybe they could have interviewed her during the day, like they would have a white person?" one user said. "No one resisted. An officer's duty is to protect and serve. They did neither. Her life was unjustly taken. P.S. You're a dumpster fire of a person," wrote another one.

But some agreed with Lahren's tweet and said, "I don’t understand people’s rationale at times. Her stupid boyfriend shot at the police. The police returned fire. What were they supposed to do? Stand there and keep getting shot? Her boyfriend should be charged for her death. He got her killed," and "The family gets a $12M settlement from Louisville, Taylor’s boyfriend at the time Kenneth Walker reportedly stated that he did hear a knock even for a no knock warrant that was legally issued and shot first at the police, and people expect the police officers to be charged?"

Many even slammed her for being the "poster child for White privilege." One said, "Damn, didn’t realize that being asleep at home in your bed while your boyfriend thinks there’s an intruder on the premises because the police **did not announce themselves** is “resisting arrest” — thanks for this one, noted legal scholar Tomi Lahren," and another posted, "Tomi Lahren's not a white supremacist; it's just a coincidence that in every high profile case where someone ends up being killed, she decides that the Black person was the one who was wrong. Just a very big coincidence." Sharing a set of her old tweets, one wrote: "Tomi Lahren is the poster child for White Privilege."

Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the Louisville grand jury's decision at a news conference as protesters against racial injustice and police brutality gathered in the streets of Kentucky's largest city. Former detective Brett Hankison was indicted on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree — an offense that ranks at the lowest level of a felony crime in Kentucky and carries a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison.

Taylor, 26, was killed in front of her armed boyfriend shortly past midnight on March 13, 2020, inside her Louisville apartment after Hankison and his two colleagues forced their way in with a search warrant. The two other officers, Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, were not charged because they were reportedly justified under Kentucky law in returning fire after Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot at them, wounding Mattingly in the thigh, Cameron said. Hankison fired his weapon 10 times.

As per several reports, some of the bullets traveled through Taylor's apartment into adjacent Apartment No. 3, where a man, a pregnant woman, and a child were at home. There was “no conclusive” evidence that any of Hankison's bullets struck Taylor, Cameron said. The grand jury indicted him for wantonly placing the neighbors in danger, Cameron said.