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Brett Hankison, a former Kentucky police officer who was convicted in the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was sentenced on Monday to 33 months in prison.

Taylor was shot and killed on March 13, 2020, during a botched drug raid authorized by the Louisville Metro Police Department. A Louisville detective at the time, Hankison, 46, was found guilty last November of violating Taylor's civil rights while executing a search warrant on her home, which resulted in the tragedy.

Hankison will not report directly to prison, with U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings saying during Monday's sentencing hearing that the Bureau of Prisons will decide when his sentence begins, according to The Associated Press. His prison sentence will be followed by three years of supervised probation.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Two things:

  • I love how they mention his sentence in months instead of years here to make it sound longer than it is.
  • He's getting more probation time than jail time... ~~for killing someone~~ for negligently and recklessly assisting in killing someone.

I guess it's better than nothing.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This isn't the officer that shot/killed her, but the guy that fired 10x threw a window and glass door blindly into her apartment. Several of his rounds went through her walls and into the apartment next door.

Trump's DOJ was trying to give him a day (time served).

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thank you for the clarifying info.

This still feels like an injustice to me. Cops should be held to a higher standard.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

No problem and 100% agreed. I think the judge also felt the same way.

U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings, in sentencing Hankison, said no prison time “is not appropriate” and would minimize the jury’s verdict from November. Jennings said she was “startled” there weren’t more people injured in the raid from Hankison’s blind shots.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

it is an injustice and par for the course for our society as it is today.

the problem with holding the police to a higher standard has well documented institutional roots, but that documentation is an unpopular as the epstein's files are to the ruling class.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ehh better than the one day sentence I guess.