A federal judge sentenced an ex-Kenskuucky police officer to almost three years in prison for the use of excessive violence during the fatal raid of 2020 on the Breonna Taylor house, and refused a recommendation from the Ministry of Justice that he will not receive a prison time.
Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid but no one hit, was the only officer on the spot accused in the death of the black woman. He is the first person to be sentenced to the prison in the case that turned the city of Louisville upside down and produced weeks of street protests about police -bred five years ago.
Last week the Ministry of Justice advised a one -day prison sentence and supervised release in the Hankison case. In a conviction memorandumAssistant -Procurer -General for Civil Rights Damage K Dhillon and senior adviser Robert J Keenan said that Hankison had suffered psychological stress due to the legal battle.
The American district judge Rebecca Grady Jennings condemned Hankison during a hearing on Monday afternoon. She said that no prison time is ‘not suitable’ for Hankison and said that she was ‘shocked’ that no more people were injured in the raid.
Hankison will serve 33 months in prison and three years of guided probation.
Although Hankison did not hit anyone, he shot in the bedroom window of Taylor, through jealousies and a black-out curtain and a neighboring apartment, where a few with a five-year-old child lived.
He was found guilty In November 2024 of one civilian rights abuse count and he faced a maximum life sentence in prison.
In May, the Ministry of Justice of Donald Trump canceled the work to an agreement to enter into a consent decision with the city of Louisville. The agreement is said to have given the authority of the Ministry of Justice to supervise Louisville’s efforts to revise its police training and use of use.
In September 2020, six months after her death, the Taylor family received an unlawful death scheme of $ 12 million from the city of Louisville. The civil rights lawyer of her family, Ben Crump, told the Associated Press on Monday that he hoped that Hankison would get more time, but “we are grateful that he will at least go to prison and should think about those three years about Breonna Taylor and that her life caused it”.
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