Ex-Louisville Cop Linked To Breonna Taylor Shooting Found Not Guilty On All Wanton Endangerment Charges
BREAKING NEWS: A Jury has found Brett Hankison NOT GUILTY on all charges.
On Wednesday, Hankison shed tears on the witness stand saying that he shot into Taylor’s home to protect himself and fellow authorities in a chaotic situation, according to CNN Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT worker, and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were sleeping when police broke in during a botched drug raid and fatally shot her.
Both sides gave their closing arguments on Thursday.
“She didn’t need to die that night,” Hankison explained from the witness stand on Wednesday, which quickly provoked Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, to step out of the courtroom.
In the video from Law & Crime Daily, Hankinson stated “I knew they were trying to get to him, and it appeared to me they were being executed with this rifle. I returned fire through the sliding glass door, and that did not stop the threat,” Hankison testified, pausing at times to dry his eyes.
Hankinson went on to explain to speak on his alleged conversation with Taylor’s boyfriend and said, “I said you shot the police and he said I did not shoot the police and I said well who did and he said my girlfriend and then I said but he said she shot you with her 9 and I said well where is she at because I had no idea there was another person inside at all and he said she’s dead inside.”
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The ex-officer said after hearing that it shook him because it was only supposed to be one person inside the apartment and now there’s a girl dead inside and that’s not why they were there.