Remember how I wrote that the Trump DoJ was requesting that former Memphis police officer get only one day in prison for killing Breonna Taylor and then lying about it?
The judge called bullsh%$ on the Trump Administration's attempt to declare hunting season on Black people and sentenced Brett Hankison to 3 years in prison.
Not long enough, but better than what the corrupt prosecutors were asking for:
………A federal judge in Kentucky on Monday sentenced a former Louisville police officer involved in the fatal raid of Breonna Taylor’s home to nearly three years in prison, in a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, which had requested he serve only one day behind bars.
In November, a federal jury in Kentucky convicted the former officer, Brett Hankison, of one count of violating Ms. Taylor’s civil rights by using excessive force in discharging several shots through her window during a botched drug raid in 2020. Even though none of the 10 shots he fired hit Ms. Taylor, Mr. Hankison, who is white, was the only officer to be charged for his actions during the botched operation.
Last week, Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, asked the judge in the case, Rebecca Grady Jennings, to sentence Mr. Hankison to a single day in prison — essentially the brief time he had served when he was charged — and three years of supervised release.
The request was intended to send the message that the department planned to abandon its longstanding efforts to address racial disparities in policing — and to reorient the civil rights division to pursue President Trump’s culture war agenda at the expense of its founding mission of confronting race-based discrimination.
That's an awfully mealy mouthed way of saying, "Show cops that they can kill black people with impunity.
………
The warrant to raid Ms. Taylor’s apartment was based on shoddy surveillance. Three officers were charged by federal prosecutors with knowingly including false information in an affidavit to get a judge to approve the raid. One of them, Kelly Goodlett, pleaded guilty in 2022. The case against the two other officers, Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, is still open.
Prosecutors argued that Mr. Hankison did not have legal justification to use deadly force when he fired through a window and sliding glass door covered by blinds during the raid, ultimately hitting a neighboring apartment.
He could not see anything, but because he was a pants-wetting coward, he fired 10 shots blindly through a window.
The United States police are a disgrace, and this is by design.
0 comments :
Post a Comment