Trump World Will Never Allow Justice for Breonna Taylor

On Monday, the former Louisville police officer, Brett Hankison, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his role in the murder of Breonna Taylor. Hankison was one of the three officers who broke into Taylor’s apartment while trying to execute a falsified mandate without Knock. He fired 10 shots, without discrimination, to Taylor’s room. He did not hit Taylor, nor his boyfriend Kenneth Walker, but some of his balls have passed in the apartment next to Taylor. After several trials, Hankison was sentenced last year for a chief to have violated the civil rights of Taylor. He will probably be the only officer to face justice for killing Taylor.

Hankison received a light sentence, anyway to decide it. The maximum sentence for a violation of civil rights that leads to death is a life imprisonment. Now, in a realistic way, Hankison was never going to receive life because his individual shots did not hit the killing. Probation managers recommended a sentence from 135 to 168 months – which corresponds to the guidelines for this type of violation. Reuters reports that federal directives on determining the sentence provide 33 to 41 months. I do not know where they get this number, but my intuition is that they use the directives when the deprivation of civil rights leads to material damage, which I suppose you can access because the Hankison balls have really hit anyone. However, even if you somehow think Hankison’s crime against goods, 33 months are at the lower end of the spectrum.

The judge who condemned Hankison is Rebeca Grady Jennings, a former Kentucky lawyer who was appointed by Trump On the federal bench in 2018. Critics should be everywhere for her for having pronounced a slight sentence, but it is not, because the Ministry of Justice of Trump, which was busy decimating her division of civil rights, did something more absurd: he asked Jennings to condemn Hankison to one day.

People are right to focus on the raw insult to suggest that a cop that has been sentenced of a violation of civil rights in a crime which led to the death of an innocent being sentenced to a single day in prison. But let’s not miss the fact that Judge Jennings essentially did what the Trump administration wanted it to do: treat Hankison with the leniency and mercy that Hankison has not shown in Taylor. She did not let Hankison Waltz get out of her courtroom and on a program on Fox or Newsmax who is probably waiting for her, but she did not “throw the book” either. She didn’t punish her the largest extent of the law. However, it is not because his sentence is better than the literal that the Trump administration requested. I promise you that if I was unconstitutionally broken into someone’s apartment, then pulled 10 strokes in the dark, and a white Woman died, I would not go home in three years.

There was nothing that the Ministry of Justice could do to force Jennings to go slowly on Hankison, and yet, she went gently on Hankison. At the hearing of determination of the sentence, Jennings complained that the Ministry of Justice did not submit the impact declarations of the victims. Usually the accusation gives these declarations to remind the judge the severity of the crime during the conviction. Trump’s Ministry of Justice did not give these statements, because, once again, they don’t really think that blacks, our lives or our subjects of suffering. But it’s not like Jennings ignorant Both of the community and national impact of Hankison crimes. I guess she has had access to television and newspapers in recent years. Jennings also said that she was “surprised” that Hankison’s bullets do not hit anyone. She had all the information she needed to condemn Hankison to something close to the maximum, but chose not to do it. It is on her, not the Racist administration Trump.

But the DOJ waterfall means that everyone reports that 33 months is much longer than a day, instead of emphasizing that it is much less than life, or 168 months, even 41 months. Simply by making a scandalous and absurd request, the Trump team has cropped the whole story. This is one of the ways that Trump continues to win, even when he loses arguments.

That said, as an anti-carcarceral progressive and really engaged in the reform of criminal justice, I am forced to emphasize that 33 months strike me enough. I don’t think more prison means More justiceAnd regular readers know that I maintain this intellectual position even when homicide whites benefit from leniency. My goal is not to treat white accused as black defendants: I would not like to be treated as a black criminal accused on my worst enemy, Sam Alito. My goal is to live one day in a world where black accused are treated with the same leniency often given to white criminals. If 33 months are you getting when you shoot your weapon without discrimination at 10 times in a dark apartment, I want the same standard to be used when the shooter is black.

But Trump could do so so that Hankison did not serve any prison sentence for his violation of civil rights; All he has to do is give Hankison a presidential forgiveness.

Hankison was prosecuted for a federal crime because the Kentucky Attorney General, then Daniel Cameron, refused to prosecute Hankison and his officers. Cameron is now executed to replace Mitch McConnell in the American Senate (after having made his whole ass put back by Andy Beshear when Cameron ran to the governor). The federal pursuit of Hankison was a rearguard action taken by the Biden administration after Kentucky did not keep its responsible cops.

Since Hankison was sentenced to federal accusations, he can be pardoned by the president. And Trump just likes to forgive violent whites. The Trump administration has already expelled the regulations negotiated between the Biden Ministry of Justice and the Louisville police service. They have already canceled the few criminal justice reforms that the Biden administration instituted after the murder of George Floyd. They have already come out in favor of the idea that the cops should be “immune” of all kinds of responsibilities for brutal or homicide actions. Forgive the person to be held responsible for the death of Breonna Taylor is exactly like the kind of thing that a white supremacist president would do.

I have to assume that Trump forgiveness will be the real legal end of this saga. The quest for the justice of Taylor’s family, which lasted years, will be short by Trump using a completely uncontrolled power to prevail over the entire criminal justice system to its will.

Hankison and the other officers who participated in the murder should be in prison. But the whole system has worked to prevent this from happening, even before Taylor was declared dead on the scene. The whites who direct this joint will not stop trying to help Hankison now, even after being tried, condemned and condemned.

Being white is always having another way to avoid the responsibility and responsibility for your actions. Your second chances are never exhausted.