Former Kentucky police officer sentenced in Breonna Taylor case – CBS News Watch CBS News 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 to 33 months in prison. Nicole Valdes has details. Be the first to know Get browser notifications…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge prepared Monday afternoon to sentence an ex-Kentucky police officer convicted of using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid, days after the U.S. Justice Department recommended he receive no prison time in the Black woman’s fatal shooting. Brett Hankison fired his weapon the night of the March…
A sentencing hearing is scheduled to take place Monday for Brett Hankison, a former Kentucky police officer who was convicted in the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician. 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,…
The Department of Justice asked in a sentencing memo that Brett Hankison — a former Kentucky police officer who was convicted in connection with a raid that resulted in Breonna Taylor’s death — serve one day in prison. Hankison was convicted in 2024 of using excessive force during a botched 2020 drug raid that left Taylor,…