A federal jury on Friday found former Louisville officer Brett Hankison guilty of using excessive force and violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor in a botched police raid of her home in 2020.
The jury, made up of six women and six men, one of whom is Black, found Hankison not guilty of violating the civil rights of Taylor’s neighbors.
Prosecutors asked that Hankison be immediately taken into custody, but U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings decided to leave him out on bond until he is sentenced.
The judge, not the jury, will decide the sentence on March 12. He is facing a maximum of life in prison.
Hankison was the only officer charged for his actions during the raid. Three other officers were charged with their role in the search warrant affidavit, which included false information. No trial date has been set.
The trial centered around Hankison firing 10 times from outside Taylor’s apartment through a covered sliding glass door and blinded windows in Taylor’s bedroom window, with three bullets flying into an adjacent apartment where Cody Etherton, Chelsey Napper and her 5-year-old child lived.
Source: WDRB
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