cleared. it s important to understand this case is not justice for taylor. if the defense attorneys are smart, breonna s name will never be mention ld in the course of this trial. the superior officer said, hey, you fired your gun so dangerously in public that you could hurt or killed someone. you fired at taylor s apartment so badly in such a dangerous way, you put the people in the next door apartment at risk. so he s charged with putting the people next door to breonna at risk. hankinson s lawyer said he will testify. there s no body camera to show here. what are the challenges here for the prosecution and defense? the challenge here for the prosecution is simple as saying you ve got to hold him
witnesses including brett h hankinson himself. he was not charged with killing breonna taylor. he won tonally endangered three of her neighbors in the apartment, he blindly fired ten shots, several of those rounds piercing that apartment and putting a man, a pregnant woman and 5-year-old child who were all sleeping in danger. the neighbor at one point testifying when he got up to figure out what was going on, another bullet flew by and barely missed him by one or two inches, he said. the defense spent 25 minutes arguing he acted reasonably because he thought he was defending his fellow officers and only fired after one was shot in the leg by breonna taylor s boyfriend who, of course, said they thought they were being broken into. the attorney arguing that he acted reasonably and they were not very well prepared for this raid. there wasn t a map.
held accountable. we haven t seen the ones standing by watching being held accountable. i would say history favors the officers in this trial. the three men face a separate trial in june for aiding and abetting manslaughter. how will this be different than this federal trial? they didn t provide medical aid and didn t inconvenient when they should have. when they go back to state court, they re on trial for what they did, they participated in the killing of george floyd. they re two very different circumstances that they re on trial for. they both play a role in policing in our country. in louisville, opening statements for the officer in the trial of the officers charged with killing breonna
he didn t even nope there was an apartment next door that he could have put other people in danger. the prosecution spent twice as long arguing that he acted recklessly and since they were in an apartment complex he had to know that there were other apartments nearby. this jury of 12 came back with this verdict. justice was done, the verdict was proper, and we are thrilled, defense attorney matthew. the prosecution saying that they accept the verdict. there was no audible reaction in the courtroom. we ll have to wait and see how her family responds to the case. even before this began they said this is not about justice for breonna taylor. it will be interesting how they respond to this outcome for the only officer charged in connection with the case and that person was acquitted. athena jones, thank you.
accountable despite the fact the harm that we re afraid of did not actually occur. it hopes to think of it in a totally different context. year ago i here the church window wasn t actually broken. he s charged at putting three people next door to breonna taylor at risk. so it s possible the jury will say he didn t put breonna in danger so why should we charge him? coming up, we ll look at how russian sanctions will impact