The Justice Department recommended a one-day prison sentence for a former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer found guilty of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights during a fatal March 2020 police raid.
Taylor, 26, was inside her apartment when she was fatally shot by plainclothes officers around 12:40 a.m. on March 13, 2020, during a botched narcotics investigation.
Brett Hankison fired 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment through a covered glass door and window, three of which traveled into an adjacent apartment with a man, pregnant woman and 5-year-old inside. None of the rounds fired by Hankison hit Taylor or any of the neighbors.
Hankison, who is scheduled to be sentenced on July 21, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
A pre-sentence report prepared by the United States Probation Office recommended a sentence between 11.25 and 14 years, according to court documents. The Justice Department memo said that range was incorrectly calculated and “excessive,” recommending that the court “grant a significant downward departure.”
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