A Kentucky jury on Thursday found former police officer Brett Hankison not guilty after he fired shots during a 2020 drug raid that ended with Breonna Taylor’s death.
before the gunfire began. All the shells from his weapon were found in the parking lot, among a row of cars.
She said while other officers were in the line of fire of a single shot fired by Taylor’s boyfriend, Hankison was "over here, shooting wildly through sliding-glass doors covered with vertical blinds and drapes." The former narcotics detective admitted to firing through Taylor's patio doors and bedroom window, but said he did so to save his fellow officers. Asked if he did anything wrong that night, he saidDefense attorney Stewart Mathews told the jury in his closing argument Thursday that Hankison thought he was doing the right thing and is not a criminal who belongs in prison."He did what he thought he had to do in that instant. This all happened in such a short span," Mathews said.
A 20-year veteran K-9 officer assigned to handle a drug-sniffing dog during the raid, Hankison said he was positioned behind an officer with a battering ram, and could see the shadowy silhouette of a person "in a shooting stance" with what looked like an AR-15 rifle as Taylor's door swung open.
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