After deliberating for just a few hours, a jury in Louisville, Ky., found former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison not guilty on all three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree.
Hankison was charged after a grand jury found that he endangered Breonna Taylor’s neighbors when he fired his service weapon blindly into her apartment during a March 2020 narcotics raid.
Hankison was the only officer involved to face charges related to the botched raid in which 26-year-old Taylor was shot by police multiple times and killed. Her name became a rallying cry for social justice protests and led to a citywide ban no-knock warrants, but a grand jury found that the two other officers who fired on Taylor that night acted in self-defense after one officer was shot in the leg by Taylor’s boyfriend.
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