The officer sentenced to Brenna Taylor Reid receives a 33-month term

Former Kentucky police officer was sentenced to 33 months in prison after being convicted in connection with a raid, which resulted in Brenna Taylor’s deadly firing.

Last year, a federal jury found Britta Hankison guilty of Taylor’s civil rights violations using excessive power. The maximum punishment for the charge was life in prison.

The sentence took place a few days after the Trump administration asked the judge to sentence Hankison a one -day sentence – a position that severely contrasts with the approach to the case under President Joe Biden.

Hankison is the only officer who was accused and condemned directly in connection with the raid.

Another former officer Kelly Hudlet, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy with his colleague to falsify the application used to searily searches at the Taylor House and cover his actions after her death.

After the verdict, Hankison will face three years of control.

Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother and family attorneys appeared after the sentence on Monday.

“I think the judge did her best she had to work with,” said Ms Palmer, but she was critical of federal prosecutors who argued for a shorter term.

Boy Taylor Kenneth Walker, who was in the apartment with her on the night for the raid, said that “grateful for the small justice we received.”

Taylor became the face of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 after her death and the police, who threw George Floida, who was killed during an arrest at the police that year.

She was killed after officers in ordinary clothes performed a search warrant in her home. They broke into her apartment in the early morning hours, while she was sleeping.

Authorities believed that a former Taylor guy uses his home to hide narcotics.

Mr. Walker fired at one shot when the police knocked the door, striking one officer, Sergeant John Mother, in the leg. Mr. Walker said the officers did not declare themselves as a police, and he thought they were attackers.

Three officers returned the fire, shooting 32 bullets.

Hankinson fired 10 times in her apartment, in order, he said during the trial to protect employees.

None of Hankison’s bullets hit anyone, but they entered the neighboring property where a pregnant woman, five and a man slept.

The prosecutors said that Hankison acted recklessly and “violated one of the most fundamental rules of the deadly force: if they do not see the person they shoot, they could not press the trigger.”

The participants of the rally were waiting for the verdict, blocked the streets, chanting the name Taylor. Several people, including Aunt Taylor, Bianka Austin, were detained by police.

In early November 2024, Hankison was Convicted on one of the civil rights abuse accounts.

“Its use of the death force was illegal and included Ms. Taylor,” Prosecutor General Merrynd said in a statement. “This sentence is an important step towards accounting for Brenna Taylor’s civil rights, but justice for the loss of Ms. Taylor is a task that exceeds human potential.”

A few days after Hanquinson’s conviction, Donald Trump won a re-election-political change, which meant that the recommendation for the sentence would not come from the Biden administration, which was charged, but from the Ministry of Justice under the leadership of Trump.

Last week this recommendation – A Hankison’s please serve once in prison – Snaked some, including the Taylor family.

“Every American who believes in equal justice by law must be outraged,” the family lawyers said. “Recommending only one day in prison, it sends an unmistakable message that white officers can violate black Americans with impunity.”

In his request for the verdict, the Ministry of Justice claimed that, although Hankison participated in the “execution of the warrant” during the death raid, he did not shoot Taylor “and otherwise he was not responsible for her death.”

The Justice Ministry also stated that the additional term in the prison “will simply be unjust in these conditions.”

Usually, the verdict’s recommendations are signed by lawyers involved in this case or career officers who are engaged in the sentence.

In this case, the appointed Trump to manage the civil rights department, Harmeet Dhillon, signed a recommendation.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has made a bidden bidden policy, especially at the Ministry of Justice.

In May, the Ministry of Justice started the process Deviation of lawsuits is handed against police departments of Luisville and Minneapolis After the dispute over the high -profile killings of police and cruelty, including Taylor.

Investigations of police violations in other cities such as Memphis and Phoenix were also completed.

The Justice Department criticized Baden’s administration for accepting “sweeping” agreements “that would have triggered the local police by the federal courts.

During Biden’s stay, the Ministry of Justice opened civilian investigations to 12 state and local law enforcement agencies.

In four of them – in Louisvili, Minneapolis, Pharja and Lexington, Mississippi, the Department issued reports of systemic violations of the police.

While the accounting agreements were concluded in some police departments, they were not officially accepted.

These changes also occurred amid a massive outcome from the Ministry of Justice.

In the civil rights department alone, the department of the department, which made a recommendation on Hankison’s verdict, left about 70% of the lawyers after the opening of Trump, reports.