by EuroNews with AP
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The former Kentucky police officer was sentenced to nearly three years in prison on Monday for using excessive force during the 2020 attack that led to the death of Breana Taylor.
The federal judges involved in the sentence rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s recommendation that Brett Hankison doesn’t have time to prison.
Hankison was the only office at the scene where he was charged with Taylor’s death. He is the first person to be sentenced to prison in connection with a case that has fueled nationwide protests against police brutality across the United States.
US District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings said prison time was “not appropriate” and minimises ju-seeker verdicts from November. Jennings said no better person was injured in the rain from Hankison’s blind shot.
She was sentenced in the 49-year-old prison for a conviction of excessive use of force, accompanied by three years of supervised probation to comply with prison term.
The death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, along with the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, sparked protests of racial injustice and police brutality nationwide in 2020.
Taylor was shot in the hallway by two police officers after her boyfriend fired from inside the apartment and attacked a foot officer. None of the other officers were charged in state or federal court after prosecutors found it justified by returning fire to their apartment.
Louisville police used a drug warrant to enter Taylor’s apartment, but no drugs or cash were found inside.
Three other police officers have been charged with creating a forged warrant in the Taylor case, but none have been brought to trial. Taylor was not at the scene where he was shot.
The warrant used to enter her apartment was one of five people issued that night, seeking evidence of the drug dealer Taylor once associated with.
