{"id":149570,"date":"2025-07-19T01:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149570"},"modified":"2025-07-19T01:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:29:34","slug":"justice-department-says-former-officer-convicted-in-breonna-taylor-raid-should-get-one-day-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149570","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Justice Department says former officer convicted in Breonna Taylor raid should get one day in jail&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/17\/politics\/breonna-taylor-justice-department-sentencing-recommendation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;The Justice Department is asking that a former police officer found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor in 2020 \u2013 when she was shot and killed by police in her Louisville home \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.courtlistener.com%2Frecap%2Fgov.uscourts.kywd.126793%2Fgov.uscourts.kywd.126793.285.0.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CDan.Berman%40cnn.com%7C6a3c25e121f74ca3be1408ddc5346799%7C0eb48825e8714459bc72d0ecd68f1f39%7C0%7C0%7C638883551039668088%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=6s%2BSZx3e9jL6F6qmsvfnw7OnvjOuxNN63iElsFRVQzw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;be sentenced to one day in jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officer, Brett Hankison of Kentucky, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/01\/us\/kentucky-breonna-taylor-jury-brett-hankison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted on one count<\/a>&nbsp;of abusing Taylor\u2019s civil rights last year after firing several shots through Taylor\u2019s bedroom window during a police raid. He is set to be sentenced on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taylor\u2019s killing became a pillar in the Black Lives Matter movement, and one of several cases that sparked nationwide protests against police violence in 2020. If granted, a shortened sentence could reinflame tensions with activists who believe that government institutions protect officers from facing consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in a court filing Wednesday, the Justice Department argued that although Hankison \u201cwas part of the team executing the warrant, Defendant Hankison did not shoot Ms. Taylor and is not otherwise responsible for her death.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: &#8220;The Justice Department is asking that a former police officer found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor in 2020 \u2013 when she was shot and killed by police in her Louisville home \u2013&nbsp;be sentenced to one day in jail. The officer, Brett Hankison of Kentucky, was&nbsp;convicted on one count&nbsp;of abusing Taylor\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149571,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149570\/revisions\/149571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}