Former Kentucky police officer Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months in prison for violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights. Hankison was sentenced on Monday, July 21.
President Trump’s Justice Department (DOJ) requested a one-day sentence for Hankison who was fired from the police force in June 2020.
Hankison (left) was the only one of three Louisville police officers charged and convicted in the botched raid on Taylor’s apartment in 2020.
The three officers served a no-knock drug warrant at Taylor’s apartment in the early morning hours on March 13, 2020. They exchanged gunfire with Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who was startled awake by the noise and grabbed his firearm.
Taylor was shot 3 times while standing in a hallway in her apartment. One officer was shot in the thigh.
Louisville police were under a state of emergency after protestors rioted in the streets. Taylor’s death, along with the death of George Floyd in Minnesota that same year, sparked racial injustice protests across the country.
The city of Louisville agreed to a $12 million settlement with Taylor’s family in September 2020.
