Breonna Taylor's Family Is 'heartbroken' Over One-day Sentence Recommendation For Ex-cop

The mother of Breonna Taylor, nan Kentucky female fatally changeable by a constabulary serviceman during a 2020 botched ambush connected her home, is "heartbroken and angry" by nan government's proposal not to activity jailhouse clip for nan ex-cop who blindly fired 10 bullets into her daughter's room.

The Department of Justice said past week that erstwhile Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison — who was convicted of deprivation of authorities nether colour of law successful November — did not request to look jailhouse clip and should beryllium sentenced to a azygous time successful situation since he poses nary threat to nan public.

Hankison is owed to beryllium sentenced connected Monday day successful Louisville, and Taylor's family is urging nan judge successful nan lawsuit to disregard nan DOJ proposal and enforce a tougher sentence.

"The family asked for 1 thing: that Brett Hankison beryllium sentenced successful accordance pinch nan rule and national guidelines. Instead, Tamika Palmer is left, erstwhile again, heartbroken and angry," attorneys for Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, including Ben Crump, Lonita Baker, and Sam Aguiar, said successful a Sunday statement.

Federal prosecutors said Hankison fired done a model and a sliding solid doorway that was covered pinch a curtain and blinds. The shots deed a wall and traveled into an flat adjacent door, but did not deed Taylor.

Taylor was killed by shots from different officers, who were not charged because they were returning occurrence erstwhile Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired arsenic constabulary breached nan apartment.

In nan Sunday statement, Taylor's lawyers called Hankison's condemnation proposal an "insult" that sets a "dangerous precedent" successful really civilian authorities aliases Black group are maintained.

"It is unfathomable that, aft yet securing a conviction, nan Department of Justice would activity a condemnation truthful drastically beneath nan national guidelines," nan connection added.

The ineligible squad said that recommending a azygous time successful situation "sends nan unmistakable connection that achromatic officers tin break nan civilian authorities of Black Americans pinch near-total impunity."

The attorneys said Palmer still hopes that nan judge will "do what nan DOJ has refused to do — uphold nan law, respect nan jury's verdict, and present existent justness for Breonna Taylor."

The DOJ was contacted for remark but had not responded by nan clip of publication.