Judge Sentences Ex-Officer in Breonna Taylor Raid
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Former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months in prison after being convicted of excessive force in connection with the raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
Hankison fired 10 shots through Taylor's apartment windows during the botched drug raid, though his bullets didn't strike anyone. The shots passed through the walls into a neighboring apartment. Taylor, 26, was killed by two other officers in her hallway after her boyfriend fired at police, striking an officer in the leg.
The Justice Department is seeking no prison time for a former officer who blindly shot into Breonna Taylor’s home during a botched 2020 raid that sparked a federal inquiry into policing in Louisville,
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During a press briefing on Thursday, a reporter asked White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt about a request by the Department of Justice to the judge presiding over a case involving the killing of Breonna Taylor to only sentence the officer responsible for her death to one day in jail.