A federal judge handed down a sentence of 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release for former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison.
Hankison was one of the officers who fired his weapon during the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor’s apartment in 2020. While his bullets didn’t hit anyone, prosecutors accused Hankison of firing blindly through a covered window, endangering Taylor and her neighbors. Hankison was convicted last year of violating Taylor’s Fourth Amendment rights.
He was previously acquitted of state-level wanton endangerment of Taylor’s neighbors and his first federal trial ended in a mistrial after the jury couldn’t agree on a verdict…