Brett Hankison was charged with civil rights offenses.
Timothy D. Easley/AP, FILEof Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police officer accused of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend and their neighbors in 2020, when Taylor was shot and killed in a botched police raid.MORE: Mistrial declared in federal case against former Louisville cop over Breonna Taylor raid
According to court transcripts, he was also charged with willfully depriving Taylor's three neighbors of their right to be free from the deprivation of liberty without due process of law, which includes the right to be free from a police officer's use of unjustified force that shocks the conscience.
The judge denied the prosecution's request to introduce evidence of his prior alleged wrongdoing while employed as a Louisville police officer, according to WHAS.The plainclothes officers were serving a warrant searching for Taylor's ex-boyfriend, who they alleged was dealing drugs. He was not at the residence, but her current boyfriend, Walker, thought someone was breaking into the home and fired one shot from a 9 mm pistol at the officers.
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