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On Monday, the family of 26-year-old Emergency Medical Technician (EMT Breonna Taylor celebrated a smidgen of justice when the ex-cop Brett Hankison was sentenced to prison. Hankison received a sentence that some may consider lenient, sparking a debate about the fairness of the justice system.
U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings, in a decision that will be scrutinized by many, sentenced convicted ex-cop Brett Hankison to 33 months in the Breonna Taylor shooting case.
The judge ordered Hankison to serve three years of probation upon his release from prison. Hankerson is the former Kentucky police officer who helped obtain a no-knock warrant to raid Breonna Taylor’s home.
Ms. Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were asleep when Hankison and his partners kicked down the door to Ms. Taylor’s apartment. Startled out of his sleep, Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend, reached for his pistol and fired one shot. That bullet contacted Hankison’s partner Sgt John Mattingly, in the leg.
The Summer of 2020 incident, which tragically took the life of Breonna Taylor, played a significant role in galvanizing the George Floyd ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement, a cause that resonates with many.
The officers who raided 26-year-old Taylor’s apartment fired 32 shots into Ms. Taylor’s home, of which Hankison fired ten while standing outside.
‘Officer’ Hankison could not see who he was shooting at — he just knew there were what he considers ‘marginalized’ members of society in the apartment. After time cleared the smoke from the police created war zone, Breonna Taylor was shot dead.
Last November, 2024, a federal jury found Brett Hankison guilty of violating Breonna Taylor’s ‘civil rights by using excessive force.’ The DoJ recommended that the judge sentence Hankison to one day in jail. The court could have given him a sentence of between 11 and 14 years. The kind-hearted judge gave him a sentence of less than three years.
It’s Like Driving Drunk.
One of the wilding-out cops, Hankison, ripped through one of Breonna Taylor’s neighbors’ apartments. The pregnant neighbor and her five-year-old daughter miraculously escaped Hankison’s onslaught unscathed.
To unthinkingly start shooting into someone’s home or an occupied dwelling is one of the most reckless things someone can do in a civilized society. It’s akin to speed-driving while highly intoxicated. It’s akin to pulling a drive-by shooting on a hoodrat.
The Associated Press (AP) has recorded that “another former officer, Kelly Goodlett, who pleaded guilty to conspiring with a colleague to falsify the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for Taylor’s home and to cover up their actions after her death, will be sentenced next year.”
After the verdict, Breonna’s mother (Ms. Palmer) said, “I think the judge did the best she could with what she had to work with.” Breonna Taylor’s mother received a $12 million settlement from the city of Louisville. The City of Louisville also paid Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker $2 million.
“Think globally, act locally.”
It is crucial to be forward-thinking but not a forward person. “Be kind to everyone you meet because each carries his heavy burden…” Plato.
Embrace the three Constants: change, justice, and rightness.
The thought police are busy at work trying to suppress free speech. If allowed their march to madness, they will arrest your very thoughts.
Free Speech is thy Lord.’
