The mom of Breonna Taylor, the Kentucky lady fatally shot by a police officer throughout a 2020 botched raid on her residence, is “heartbroken and indignant” by the federal government’s suggestion to not search jail time for the ex-cop who blindly fired 10 bullets into her daughter’s room.
The Division of Justice stated final week that former Louisville Metro Police Division detective Brett Hankison — who was convicted of deprivation of rights underneath coloration of regulation in November — didn’t have to face jail time and must be sentenced to a single day in jail since he poses no risk to the general public.
Hankison is because of be sentenced on Monday afternoon in Louisville, and Taylor’s household is urging the decide within the case to disregard the DOJ suggestion and impose a more durable sentence.
“The household requested for one factor: that Brett Hankison be sentenced in accordance with the regulation and federal tips. As a substitute, Tamika Palmer is left, as soon as once more, heartbroken and indignant,” attorneys for Taylor’s mom, Tamika Palmer, together with Ben Crump, Lonita Baker, and Sam Aguiar, stated in a press release.
Federal prosecutors stated Hankison fired by a window and a sliding glass door that was coated with a curtain and blinds. The photographs hit a wall and traveled into an condo subsequent door, however didn’t hit Taylor.
Taylor was killed by photographs from different officers, who weren’t charged as a result of they had been returning hearth when Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired as police breached the condo.
Within the assertion on Thursday, Taylor’s attorneys referred to as Hankison’s sentence suggestion an “insult” that units a “harmful precedent” in how civil rights or Black persons are maintained.
“It’s unfathomable that, after lastly securing a conviction, the Division of Justice would search a sentence so drastically beneath the federal tips,” the assertion added.
The authorized group stated that recommending a single day in jail “sends the unmistakable message that white officers can violate the civil rights of Black People with near-total impunity.”
The attorneys stated Palmer nonetheless hopes that the decide will “do what the DOJ has refused to do — uphold the regulation, respect the jury’s verdict, and ship true justice for Breonna Taylor.”
The DOJ was contacted for remark however had not responded by the point of publication.
