{"id":228250,"date":"2021-04-16T07:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T04:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/simon-schuster-wont-distribute-book-by-cop-involved-in-breonna-taylor-shooting\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T04:07:26","slug":"simon-schuster-wont-distribute-book-by-cop-involved-in-breonna-taylor-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/simon-schuster-wont-distribute-book-by-cop-involved-in-breonna-taylor-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"#Simon & Schuster won’t distribute book by cop involved in Breonna Taylor shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Simon & Schuster won’t distribute book by cop involved in Breonna Taylor shooting<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Simon & Schuster said it will not distribute an upcoming book by one of the Louisville cops that was involved in the May 2020 raid that left Breonna Taylor dead.<\/p>\n

The about-face, reported by the New York Times<\/a>, comes after calls to boycott the distributor if it didn\u2019t cut ties with the publisher that inked a book deal with Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, 48.<\/p>\n

Mattingly is penning \u201cThe Fight For Truth: The Inside Story Behind the Breonna Taylor Tragedy,\u201d for Tennessee-based Post Hill Press, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The book is set to hit shelves by the fall, and Mattingly will not be available for press until then, the news<\/a>paper said.<\/p>\n

The Courier Journal learned Mattingly was cashing in on the incident when he asked a staff photographer for permission to use a photo from last year\u2019s protests on Tuesday, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Post Hill Press focuses on \u201cpop culture, business, self-help, health, current events, Christian, and conservative political books,\u201d according to its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Breonna Taylor was killed last year when five Louisville cops raided her home searching for drug suspects that did not live there.<\/figcaption>
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News of Mattingly\u2019s book was swiftly met with criticism on social media<\/a>, that reportedly led to Simon & Schuster\u2019s backing out of the project.<\/p>\n

Shannon Coulter, who organizes a\u00a0boycott campaign with more than 90,000 followers, directly called out<\/a> Simon & Schuster on Twitter Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI notice one of the publishers you distribute, @PostHillPress has given a book deal to one of the guys who fired shots in Breonna Taylor\u2019s apartment. Same guy who sued her boyfriend for \u201cemotional distress.\u201d Will you be distributing this?,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n

\u201cStay focused, y\u2019all,\u201d Democratic state Rep. Attica Scott tweeted<\/a>. \u201cPeople love to profit off of Black pain and tragedy. It sells\u201d<\/p>\n

Mattingly was shot by Taylor\u2019s boyfriend Kenneth Walker \u2014 who had a weapons license and thought the police were intruders \u2014 and fired off multiple rounds, one of them hitting the sleeping EMT.<\/p>\n

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Two roses sit below a bullet hole outside Breonna Taylor\u2019s Louisville, Ky., apartment. <\/figcaption>
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The FBI found Detective Myles Cosgrove fired the fatal shot. He and two other cops were fired from the department in the shooting\u2019s aftermath.<\/p>\n

The drug suspects the cops were seeking did not live at the apartment, and no drugs were found at the scene.<\/p>\n

A grand jury cleared the officers of criminal charges in connection with Taylor\u2019s death in September, sparking days of protests and unrest across a country grapp<\/a>ling with police shootings against black people.<\/p>\n

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A bullet hole outside Breonna Taylor\u2019s apartment. <\/figcaption>
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Mattingly has been cleared of wrongdoing by the department, and is the only officer involved to have spoken publicly about the deadly raid.<\/p>\n

He sued Walker in October, claiming the bullet wound he suffered in the thigh left caused him \u201csevere trauma,\u201d and was the subject of multiple threats \u2014 including at least one which caused his family to flee their home, the newspaper reported.\n <\/p><\/div>\n