Justice Dept seeks one-day sentence for ex-cop who killed Breonna Taylor

[True Dough]

Source: NY Times

The Justice Department’s civil rights chief has asked a federal judge to sentence a Louisville police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor to one day in jail, a stunning reversal of Biden-era efforts to address racial disparities in local law enforcement.

Last year, a federal jury in Kentucky convicted Brett Hankison, the officer, of one count of violating Ms. Taylor’s civil rights by discharging several shots through Ms. Taylor’s window during a drug raid that went awry.

He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced next week.

On Wednesday, Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, asked the judge in the case to sentence Mr. Hankison to time he had already served, in addition to one day in prison and three years of supervised release.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/justice-department-brett-hankison-sentence-breonna-taylor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE8.DiU9.p_GjRd1NwVmq

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What an insult to the family and friends of Breonna Taylor!

[True Dough]

1. Justice for Breonna!

[AZJonnie]

2. Does the judge have discretion to NOT comply with this ridiculous, insulting request?

This is a freaking travesty, man.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. I hope there are mandatory minimum / maximum sentence ranges.

[hlthe2b]

3. Beyond disgusting.. but what do we expect from a Trump-DOJ? "Civil Rights, right..."

[Bayard]

4. NO!

Just, NO.

[republianmushroom]

6. Our justice system has become a joke, a very bad joke.

But very true

[mn9driver]

7. Sounds like Herr Miller will direct Trump to pardon him anyway.

Doubt the judge will go along with something as ridiculous as a one day sentence.

[Marthe48]

8. Hope Karma whips around

and makes people like the cop, the so-called civil rights attorney dhillon, and all others who are belittling minorities feel like they are the minority in the world.

Ms. Taylor was murdered by cops who flagrantly ignored the safety of civilians in their mad dog effort to make a bust. All of the cops who participated in this assault with deadly weapons should be facing long jail sentences.

We're all worried about i.c.e. but we have to be worried about thugs in cop uniforms, too.

If this is about respecting blue lives, the rwnj could do a lot better: Hang the plaque honoring the cops who defended them against felon's traitor americans on American soil.

[travelingthrulife]

9. Just in time to spark summer protests!