Officer convicted in Breonna Taylor raid gets 33-month sentence

A former Kentucky police officer was sentenced to 33 months in prison after he was sentenced to a fatal shot of Breonna Taylor, a black woman in his house.

Last year, a federal jury accused Brett Hankison using extreme force violating Taylor’s civil rights. The maximum sentence for the accusation was life in prison.

The court comes days after the Trump administration asks the judge to give Hankison a one -day sentence – President Joe Biden is strictly contrary to the approach under the case.

Hankison is the only officer who is directly accused and convicted directly in connection with the raid.

Another former officer Kelly Goodlett, who was guilty of conspiring with a colleague to falsify the declaration used to take a call for Taylor’s house and to cover up his actions after his death, will be sentenced next year.

Taylor became the face of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 after George Floyd, who was killed during his death and killed during the police arrest in the same year.

He was killed after a “non -lump” search order in the house of the civil servants in plain clothes. He and his boyfriend Kenneth Walker entered his apartment early in the morning while he was sleeping.

Authorities believed that Taylor used his former boyfriend’s house to hide narcotics.

Mr. Walker, when the police overturned the door, he made a single shot and a civil servant shot SGT John Mattingly in his leg. Mr. Walker said the officers did not announce themselves as policemen and thought they were uninvited guests.

Three officers returned to fire and hit 32 bullets in the apartment.

During the hearing, Hankinson fired his apartment 10 times to protect other officers.

None of Hankison’s bullets hit anyone, but a pregnant woman, five years old, and a man who slept in a neighboring property.

Prosecutors said that Hankison was reckless and “violated one of the most basic rules of deadly forces: If they cannot see the person they have suffered, they cannot pull the trigger.”

Apart from the courthouse, the protesters waiting for the decision blocked the streets that say the name of Taylor. A few people, including Taylor’s aunt Bianca Austin, were detained by the police.

At the beginning of November 2024, Hankison was sentenced to the abuse of a civil rights.

“The use of fatal force and Ms. Taylor’ı damaged,” a Biden-Appointee Chief Public Prosecutor Merrick Garland said. He said. “This decision is an important step for accountability for the violation of the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, but justice is a task that exceeds the human capacity for Ms. Taylor’s loss.”

Days after Hankinson’s conviction, Donald Trump has won re-election-a political change that means the future of the Trump’s Ministry of Justice, not from the Biden administration, which brought the accusations of the advice of mahkumiyet.

Last week, this suggestion – a request for Hankison to serve one day in prison – Breonna Taylor’s family stunned some of them.

“Every American who believes in equal justice in accordance with the law should be angry.” He said. He said: “Only one day to recommend in prison, white officers are sending a prominent message in which black Americans can violate their civil rights to total impunity.”

The Ministry of Justice argued that Hankison was involved in the “execution of the order” during the deadly raid during the deadly raid, and that he was not responsible for his death. “

The Ministry of Justice also said that it would be unfair under these circumstances.

Normally, penalties are signed by lawyers in the case or by the employees of the Career Justice Department who are interested in penalty requests.

In this case, Harmeet Dhillon, who was appointed to carry out Trump’s Civil Rights Department, signed the proposal.

Since his return to the White House, Trump has made his Biden period policies a priority, especially in the Ministry of Justice.

In May, the Ministry of Justice began the process of rejecting the lawsuits against Louisville and Minneapolis, including high -profile police murders and atrocities, including Taylor’s.

In other cities such as Memphis and Phoenix, investigations into police constitutional violations have also ended.

The Ministry of Justice criticized the Biden administration for implemented the “sweeping” surveillance agreements that will implement the micro administration of the local police for years by the federal courts.

During Biden’s term of office, the Ministry of Justice launched a civilian investigation into 12 states and local law enforcement officers.

Four of them – Louisville, Minneapolis, Phoenix and Lexington, Mississippi – the episode published systemic police abuse reports.

Some police departments did not officially enter into force while accountable agreements were made.

These changes also came from the Ministry of Justice in the middle of a collective exit.

Only in the Civil Rights section, the department, which advised Hankison, has been divided into about 70% of lawyers since Trump’s opening.