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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about the sentencing of Brett Hankison, the former police officer involved in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
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33 months is not enough

It is shameful that Brett Hankison will spend less than three years in prison for blindly spraying bullets into and through Breonna Taylor's apartment in the middle of the night.
Former Louisville Metro Police detective Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months in prison for violating Breonna Taylor's ...
Trump’s DOJ, which took over the federal prosecution of Hankison after Joe Biden’s defeat in the presidential election, meant to send a message: Black lives, in fact, do not matter — especially when ...
Taylor, a Black woman, was shot and killed by Louisville, Kentucky, police officers in March 2020 after they used a no-knock ...
A federal judge on Monday sentenced an ex-Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force ...
One of the ex-police officers who blindly shot into Breonna Taylor’s home during a botched “no-knock” raid in 2020 has been ...
The former Kentucky police officer became the first person sentenced to prison in connection with Taylor's death in 2020.
Last night, that moment came again. A former Kentucky police officer, Brett Hankison, was sentenced to just under three years ...
Three other former Louisville Metro Police officers are still facing charges in connection to the death of Breonna Taylor.
The Trump administration fought against justice for Breonna Taylor, but the judge in the case gave it to former LMPD officer ...