[Episode 443] #Covfefe Break: Breonna Taylor, War on Drugs, and COVID Mortality

September 25, 2020 Carter and Keri fact check and discuss Breanna Taylor’s death following the police execution of their no-knock warrant and the ethics issue of police “just doing their job.” They chat about the War on Drugs as a fundamental problem with Taylor’s death a predictable outcome, Carter’s analysis of two decades of US mortality statistics looking for excessive mortality rate with COVID-19 that doesn’t seem to be there, the meaning of the Cowboy protest ride in Chicago city streets that may lead to the horse being put down, and finish up with the story of Jimmy Kimmel’s trained seal act. LINKS REFERENCES ON TODAY'S SHOW: Various Breonna Taylor fact-check links: https://reason.com/2020/09/24/no-murder-charges-in-breonna-taylor-case-protests-erupt-across-u-s/ https://www.ksat.com/news/national/2020/09/01/lawyer-plea-offer-implicated-breonna-taylor-in-drug-ring/ https://www.wave3.com/2020/08/26/warrants-issued-arrest-breonna-taylors-ex-boyfriend-amid-leaked-new-documents/ https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/leaked-documents-give-more-details-in-breonna-taylor-case/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/kenneth-walker-boyfriend-breonna-taylor-sues-police-city/story?id=72754382 https://www.wdrb.com/news/separating-facts-from-fiction-in-the-breonna-taylor-case/article_94fb82fc-b10c-11ea-9305-43c10123a542.html https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2020/09/15/breonna-taylor-shooting-city-louisville-settles-family/5792731002/ https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/06/16/breonna-taylor-fact-check-7-rumors-wrong/5326938002/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/facts-what-we-know-about-the-shooting-death-of-breonna-taylor/ar-BB142jJA Milgram Experiment: https://amzn.to/30btl0t Bradley Helgerson episode: https://youtu.be/KRP9IY9RGjQ Carter’s Death totals by year spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L5zk9atG6525a6h4tQhtNo12xvFh4mA44yUc3ZzBhls Worldwide data excessive death graph: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid Chicago's Dreadhead Cowboy: https://news.wttw.com/2020/09/23/prosecutors-horse-ridden-dreadhead-cowboy-dan-ryan-may-not-survive Anthony Anderson / Jimmy Kimmel Emmy clip: https://youtu.be/H2vCAjImJJ0 Thanks for watching! Please don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Follow us on the following social media channels...at least until we get banned: Twitter: @unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Pick up some Unsafe Space merch at unsafespace.com! YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/zN563ttTr1U