The trial of a white former Kentucky police officer charged with wanton endangerment during the 2020 shooting death of Breonna Taylor began, casting a spotlight on another case in the U.S. that sparked a summer of protests against racial injustice
Detective Brett Hankison, 45, whose stray bullets hit a neighboring apartment in the city of Louisville during a botched execution of a search warrant in March 2020, was the only officer charged in the case.
"There's not going to be any dispute about the evidence," said Hankison's attorney, Stew Mathews, in his opening argument. "The issue is, what was the reasoning behind his firing those shots?" Hankison's trial in Jefferson County Circuit Court has failed to satisfy activists who believe police got off too easily after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, the lead investigator, said police were justified in using deadly force.
A grand jury cleared the two white officers who actually shot Taylor but found reason to charge Hankison for endangering neighbors in the adjacent apartment.
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