Brett Hankison, one of three Kentucky police officers involved in the botched raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death, was found not guilty of endangering Taylor’s neighbors.
Brett Hankison, one of three Kentucky police officers involved in the botched raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death, was found not guilty of endangering Taylor’s neighbors as he shot wildly into her home during the 2020 incident. The ruling is another hurdle in the pursuit of justice for Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman whose death, along with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, spurred months of antiracist protests during the summer of 2020. Prosecutors filed wanton endangerment charges against Hankison in 2020 after conservative state Attorney General Daniel Cameron convened a grand jury but didn’t give it the option to consider whether any of the officers involved should be charged with murdering Taylor. The jury was asked to consider whether Hankison acted recklessly when he fired into Taylor’s home.
