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NextImg:BREAKING: Former Louisville police officer sentenced to 33 months over Breonna Taylor raid – The Right Scoop

A former Louisville police officer was just sentenced to 33 months in prison over the raid of Breonna Taylor’s home that resulted in her death.

Here’s more from CNN:

Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was sentenced Monday to 33 months in prison for violating Breonna Taylor’s rights during the raid in which she was shot and killed, after President Donald Trump’s Justice Department asked the judge to imprison him for a single day, Reuters reported.

The officer was “convicted of using excessive force during” the raid, but the DOJ recommended no jail-time, suggesting time-already served.

The Justice Department, which has changed leadership under President Donald Trump since Hankison’s conviction, said in a sentencing memo last week that “there is no need for a prison sentence to protect the public” from Hankison. Federal prosecutors suggested time already served, which amounts to one day, and three years of supervised probation.

Prosecutors at his previous federal trials aggressively pursued a conviction against Hankison, 49, arguing that he blindly fired 10 shots into Taylor’s windows without identifying a target. Taylor was shot in her hallway by two other officers after her boyfriend fired from inside the apartment, striking an officer in the leg. Neither of the other officers was charged in state or federal court after prosecutors deemed they were justified in returning fire into the apartment. Louisville police used a drug warrant to enter the apartment, but found no drugs or cash inside.

A separate jury deadlocked on federal charges against Hankison in 2023, and he was acquitted on state charges of wanton endangerment in 2022.

The judge in this case is US District Judge Grady Jennings, a Trump appointee.