BREAKING: An ex-police officer who shot into Breonna Taylor's apartment has been found not guilty of wanton endangerment. Brett Hankison was the only police officer charged in the raid that resulted in Taylor's death.
“He was never in the doorway,” Assistant Kentucky Attorney General Barbara Maines Whaley told the jury. Referring to Taylor she added, “His wanton conduct could have multiplied her death by three, easily.”
She said while other officers were in the line of fire of a single shot fired by Taylor’s boyfriend, Hankison was “over here, shooting wildly through sliding-glass doors covered with vertical blinds and drapes.” “He did what he thought he had to do in that instant. This all happened in such a short span,” Mathews said.
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