A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Louisville police officer to 33 months in prison for violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor during the 2020 no-knock raid that led to her death.
Brett Hankison will also serve three years of supervised probation after his prison term. The start date of his sentence and the facility where he will be held will be determined by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings delivered the sentence after federal prosecutors recommended that Hankison be given time served, which would amount to one day in prison.
Jennings rejected the request, saying that imposing no prison time on Hankison would be inappropriate and would undermine the jury’s guilty verdict reached in November 2024….