After a four-hour hearing Monday, a judge issued a sentence of over two years in prison for former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison.
In November, Hankison was found guilty of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights and using excessive force when he entered her home in March of 2020 after a warrant was issued to search the home in connection with Taylor’s boyfriend allegedly selling drugs, but no drugs were found inside the home.
Taylor was killed during the botched raid. Hankison did not shoot Taylor but fired his gun 10 times into her apartment through a sliding glass door. Three bullets went into an adjacent apartment and nearly hit the people inside.
The judge’s sentence includes a total of 33 months, or two years and nine months, in federal prison, followed by three years of probation.
Earlier in the day, before Hankison was sentenced, a judge denied Hankison’s request for a new trial.
Later in the afternoon, four protestors, including Breonna Taylor’s aunt Bianca Austin, were taken into custody after some protestors began to block traffic.
Source: WAVE
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