The United States Ministry of Justice asked a former policeman who declared guilty for the death of a young black woman, Breonna Taylor, a sentence qualified for “insulting” by the victim’s lawyers on Thursday.
The police officer, Brett Hankison, was declared guilty in November 2024 by a jury in Louisville for having violated the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, 26, who has become an icon of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“The Government respects the verdict”
In view of the pronouncement of its judgment on July 21, the Ministry of Justice recommends, in judicial documents, dated Wednesday, which is sentenced to a sentence of one day in prison, already purged during its arrest at the beginning of the procedure, accompanied by three years of probation.
Unusual fact, this recommendation is signed, not from the prosecutor in charge of the Archive, but of the Assistant Minister of Justice, in charge of civil rights, Harmet Dhillon, a conservative lawyer appointed by President Donald Trump in this strategic position.
“The government respects the jury verdict that almost surely guarantees that the defendant Hankison will never serve in the police again and also probably will never legally hold a firearm,” he said.
But a heavier penalty would be “unfair,” he argues, emphasizing that “if he has made a blind blind man to Mrs. Taylor’s department, he doesn’t or anyone that day.” He only started shooting after Breonna Taylor’s companion delimited one of her police comrades, added Harmet Dhillon.
“Insulated to the life of Breonna Taylor”
The victim’s lawyers, including Ben Crump, in advance in matters of violence against minorities, described in a press release these particularly mild requests of insult to the life of Breonna Taylor and the flagrant betrayal of the jury’s decision. “
“Recommend only one day in prison sends the unequivocal message that the White Police can violate the civil rights of black Americans with almost total impunity,” they deplore.
Breonna Taylor had been murdered at least eight balls by the police in her department in Louisville, in Kentucky (Central-East), on March 13, 2020. The Police broke out in the middle of the night in an investigation for drug trafficking aimed at her former boyfriend.
His new partner had taken them to thieves and shot with a legally detained weapon. Police retaliate pulling more than thirty shots and Breonna Taylor had been touched.
Source: BFM TV
