On 14 Nov 2023, "Trump - Inmate Number P01135809"
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> Abe Lincoln should be burned in effigy every day for turning the
> niggers loose in North America instead of sending them back to Africa.
> The families who supported it should all be rounded up and executed,
> every last member of them.

The prosecution of Brett Hankison, the former police detective who fired
10 bullets through Breonna Taylor�s apartment during a fatal 2020 raid
in Louisville, Ky., ended in a mistrial on Thursday after the jury said
it could not reach a unanimous verdict on federal civil rights charges.

It was the second time that Mr. Hankison had gone to trial on charges
related to the case and avoided a conviction. The Justice Department
charged Mr. Hankison last year after a jury found him not guilty of
state charges of endangering Ms. Taylor�s neighbors by firing several
times through a covered window and a sliding-glass door during a
nighttime police raid.

Two other Louisville police officers, both of whom were white, shot Ms.
Taylor, a Black 26-year-old emergency room technician whose death led to
massive protests against racism and police violence in Louisville and
elsewhere.

Mr. Hankison, who is also white, did not strike anyone with his gunfire,
but some of his bullets entered a neighboring apartment where a pregnant
woman, her boyfriend and her 5-year-old son were sleeping.

Jurors had been deliberating since Monday and told the judge on Thursday
that they were deadlocked, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial,
according to The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear if the
Justice Department planned to retry the case. It would only say, in a
statement, that it was evaluating its options.

Mr. Hankison, who was fired following the shooting, had been charged
with violating the rights both of Ms. Taylor and of the family next
door. Prosecutors argued in court that he did not have legal
justification to use deadly force when he fired the shots. Mr. Hankison
took the stand in his defense, testifying that he felt frightened and
helpless and believed someone inside the apartment was continuing to
fire at his fellow officers, according to The Courier Journal.

When the police burst through Ms. Taylor�s apartment door shortly after
midnight on March 13, 2020, Ms. Taylor�s boyfriend fired a shot that
struck an officer in the leg. He said later that he had believed the
officers were intruders, because he and Ms. Taylor had not heard the
officers announce themselves.

The two officers who shot Ms. Taylor � Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan
Mattingly � have never been charged. Unlike those officers, who were
returning fire coming from inside the apartment, Mr. Hankison was not
justified in firing through the window and sliding door, which were
covered by blinds, Justice Department lawyers argued.

Three other officers were charged by federal prosecutors with knowingly
including false information in an affidavit in order to get a judge to
approve the raid. One of those officers, Kelly Goodlett, a former
detective, pleaded guilty last year.

In doing so, Ms. Goodlett admitted that there had not been enough
evidence to support a search warrant for Ms. Taylor�s apartment, and
that she had not objected when a fellow detective included false
information in the warrant application.

That fellow detective, Joshua Jaynes, and a sergeant, Kyle Meany, were
charged with violating Ms. Taylor�s rights. Both officers were among
several who were fired by the Louisville Metro Police Department
following the raid. They have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting a
trial.

Earlier this year, the Justice Department found that Louisville�s Police
Department had a pattern of being abusive and discriminatory. The
government�s report found that the department had shown a broad pattern
of discrimination against Black people and those with behavioral health
problems.

The judge who authorized the raid on Ms. Taylor�s apartment � based in
part on the false information provided by the police � had initially
signed off on a �no-knock� raid, in which police are allowed to burst
into homes without warning. But the orders were later changed to require
that the police knock and identify themselves.

Officers involved in the raid said they had announced themselves, but
Ms. Taylor�s boyfriend and neighbors at the apartment complex said they
only heard the officers bang on the door. The outcry following Ms.
Taylor�s death led several state and local governments to ban or
restrict the use of no-knock warrants.

The federal civil rights charges that Mr. Hankison faced carry a maximum
penalty of life in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/us/brett-hankison-breonna-taylor-jury-
verdict.html