The Gene Snyder federal courthouse in downtown Louisville, where Brett Hankison was sentenced on July 21, 2025. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Sarah Ladd)
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison has appealed the nearly three-year sentence he received for his role in the 2020 police raid that killed Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black woman.
The notice of appeal, filed Tuesday, comes after U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings last month sentenced Hankison to 33 months in prison for violating Taylor’s civil rights during the raid…