A jury began deliberations in the federal civil trial of former Louisville Police Officer Brett Hankison after prosecutors rested their case Monday by alleging he […]
A jury began deliberations Monday afternoon at the federal trial of a former Louisville police officer accused of violating Breonna Taylor's civil rights by opening fire on her apartment the night she was killed in a botched raid. The jury received the case on a day when the former officer, Brett Hankison, was grilled by a federal prosecutor over his actions at the time the 26-year-old Black woman was killed. Taylor was shot to death by police after they knocked down the door of her apartment on March 13, 2020.
The ex-Louisville police officer on trial for firing into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed testified Thursday he had to react quickly after a fellow officer was shot in the leg during the drug raid. Brett Hankison said he saw a muzzle flash come from inside Taylor’s hallway after officers knocked down the door in the early hours of March 13, 2020, to execute a search warrant. “I had to react,” Hankison said on the witness stand in U.S. District Court Thursday.