In a controversial move, the Trump administration’s Department of Justice is urging a federal judge to sentence former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison to just one day in prison after his federal civil rights conviction related to the botched 2020 police raid that killed Breonna Taylor. Hankison is scheduled for sentencing on July 21, 2025,…
A federal judge has agreed to dismiss a portion of the most serious charge against two former Louisville, Kentucky, police officers accused of falsifying a search warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black medical worker, in her apartment in 2020. Joshua Jaynes, a former detective with the Louisville Police Department,…
Four years after the tragic death of Breonna Taylor, bipartisan efforts by Kentucky’s U.S. legislators are underway to enact national change in her honor. Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Democratic Rep. Morgan McGarvey have introduced the “Justice for Breonna Taylor Act” in both the Senate and House, aiming to prohibit no-knock warrants nationwide. The proposed…