Only trial in Taylor case ends in acquittal
The sole police officer charged in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor’s apartment was acquitted Thursday. Brett Hankison, 45, had been charged with wanton endangerment because bullets he fired flew into a neighboring apartment.
Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan Mattingly, the two officers who combined to shoot Taylor six times, were never charged with crimes. No one was directly charged with killing Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman.
Prosecutors said Hankison’s 10 shots, fired from outside the apartment, endangered a family of three next door. Hankison’s defense team said the former officer opened fire to defend his colleagues.
The jury deliberated about three hours.