Breanna Taylor case: judge convicts US police officers

Killing of Breanna Taylor

Despite the pressure by Trump government-judge convicts US police officers

A former police officer was convicted of killing Afro-American Breonna Taylor. The Ministry of Justice had previously tried to influence.

A former US police officer was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his participation in killing Afro-American Breonna Taylor in 2020. District judge Rebecca Jennings announced the judgment against Brett Hankison on Monday, as the newspaper “Louisville Courier Journal” reported. In doing so, she rejected a recommendation from the US Ministry of Justice to do mildly and to only condemn the ex-police officer to a symbolic detention from one day.

Taylor was shot by white police officers in March 2020, who had stormed her apartment in Louisville in the US state of Kentucky at a nightly drug raid. It later became an icon of the Black Lives Matter protest movement (the life of blacks counts). Hankison was guilty and convicted in one case in November of violation of civil rights.

Hankison’s shots had not hit Taylor, but he blindly fired through a bedroom window covered by curtains and blinds. Four other police officers were charged next to him.

Taylor’s friend had suspected an attack in the raid and opened the fire with his weapon, which he legally owned. The officials shot back and met Taylor fatally while her boyfriend was unharmed.

The head of the Ministry of Justice under US President Donald Trump had asked the judge last week to only condemn Hankison for a punishment in the amount of the already served in prison-for the one day he had already spent in prison when he was arrested.

Taylor’s death and the death of George Floyd in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis in May 2020 were the focus of a wave of protests in the USA against police violence and racism under the motto Black Lives Matter. In the United States, deadly police violence against Blacks always causes outrage.