A FORMER police detective was found not guilty and cleared of all charges for firing into Breonna Taylor’s neighbor’s home.
Brett Hankison was not on trial for Taylor’s death. Instead, he was facing charges for firing bullets that went into an adjacent apartment, endangering a pregnant neighbor, her young child and her boyfriend.
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Hankison was fired from the police force last June and charged in September with “wanton endangerment” for wildly and blindly shooting into the adjacent apartments during the raid.
The former narcotics detective testified in his defense on Wednesday about his actions during the police raid that left Taylor, 26, dead.
Hankison said that as a police battering ram broke open the 26-year-old’s door, the blast of a gun lit up the apartment’s hallway and his fellow officer fell wounded in the doorway
Hankison admitted to shooting through Taylor’s patio door and bedroom window but said he did so to save his fellow officers.
Hankison said he thought it was someone firing an automatic rifle at his fellow officers.
When asked if he did anything wrong that night, he said, “absolutely not.”
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Prosecutors cast doubt on whether Hankison could see into Taylor’s front door when the first shot was fired.
“He was never in the doorway,” Barbara Maines Whaley told jurors in her closing argument.
“His wanton conduct could have multiplied one tragic death, Breonna Taylor, his wanton conduct could have multiplied her death by three, easily.”
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