Getty imagesA former Kentki police officer was sentenced to 33 months in jail after being convicted in connection with a raid, resulting in a deadly shooting of a black woman Bronna Taylor in her house.
A federal jury convicted Brett Hanison for violating Taylor’s civil rights using excessive force last year. The maximum punishment for the charge was in jail.
The judge asked the judge to punish Hanison for one day – after a situation, a position that the president who is opposite to the point of view under the biden.
Hakison is the only officer who has been charged and convicted in connection with the bottled raid.
Another former officer, Kelly Gudlet, who convicted a conspiracy with a colleague to prove the affidavit used to receive a search warrant for Taylor’s house and would be sentenced next year, to cover his actions after his death.
Taylor became a face of the Black Lives Matter movement after his death in 2020 and the murder of the police of George Floid, who was murdered during the police arrest the same year.
In plain clothes, the authorities killed him after executing a “no-nock” search warrant at his house. They burst into her apartment in the morning, when she and her lover, Kenneth Walker were sleeping.
Officials believed that Taylor’s ex -boyfriend was using his house to hide the narcotics.
Mr. Walker fired the same bullet when the police knocked down the door, killing an officer, SGT John Mattingly. Mr. Walker said that the authorities did not announce themselves as a police, and they felt that they were infiltrators.
The three officials returned the fire, shooting 32 bullets in the flat.
Hai Kinson fired 10 times in his apartment, in order, during the test, he asked for the safety of fellow officers.
None of the nostrils of Hanison kills anyone, but they entered a neighboring property, where a pregnant woman, a five -year -old and a man was sleeping.
The prosecutors said that Hanison worked carelessly and “violated one of the most fundamental rules of fatal force: if they could not see the person on whom they are shooting, they cannot pull the trigger.”
Outside the courthouse, the protesters blocked the roads by chanting Taylor’s name, waiting for the verdict. Several people, including Taylor’s aunt, Bianka Austin, were detained by the police.
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In early November 2024, Hanison was convicted on a count of misuse of civil rights.
“Their use of deadly force was illegal and put Ms. Taylor in the way of damage,” Biden-appointed Attorney General Merick Garland said in a statement. “This decision is an important step towards accountability for Bronna Taylor’s violation of civil rights, but justice for the loss of Ms. Taylor is a task that exceeds human ability.”
A few days after Hai Kinson’s sentence, Donald Trump won the election again-a political change that meant the recommendation of the punishment would not come from the Biden administration, which brought the allegations, but from the justice department led by Trump.
Last week, the recommendation – a request to serve a day in jail for Hanisan – was stunned by some stunned, including Bronna Taylor’s family.
The lawyers for the family said, “Every American who believes in equal justice under law should be angry.” “Recommending just one day in jail sends surefire messages that white officers can violate the civil rights of black Americans, which are with total impurities.”
In a request for his sentence, the Department of Justice argued that although the Hanison was involved in “executing the warrant” during the deadly raid, he did not shoot Taylor “and otherwise not responsible for his death”.
The Department of Justice also said that additional jail time “will be unjust only in these circumstances”.
Typically, punishment recommendations are signed by lawyers involved in the case or career justice department employees who deal with the requests of punishment.
In this case, the appointment of Trump to run the Department of Civil Rights, Harmeet Dhilan signed the recommendation.
What changes have Trump’s justice department made?
Since returning to the White House, Trump has made the rolling biden-era policies a priority, especially in the Department of Justice.
In May, the Department of Justice began the process of dismissing the cases brought against Louivela and Miniapolis after a dispute over high-profile police killings and cruelty, including Taylor.
Investigations of police constitutional violations in other cities like Memphis and Phoenix also ended.
The Department of Justice criticized the Biden administration for implementing the “comprehensive” overseas agreements “, which would have implemented the Micromanagement of the years of the local police by the federal courts.
During Biden’s tenure, the Department of Justice opened civil investigation into 12 state and local law enforcement agencies.
In four of them – in Louisville, Minianpolis, Phoenix and Lexington, Mississippi – Department released a report of systemic police misconduct.
While accountability agreements were made with some police departments, they were not formally enacted.
These changes have also come amid large migration from the Department of Justice.
In the Civil Rights Division alone, the division of the department which recommended Hanison recommended by about 70% of lawyers since Trump was inaugurated.
