3 years doesn’t feel like enough for negligent homicide. Admittedly, I have minimal details other than they shot through a covered window and killed Breonna, which feels like enough information in itself to determine that 3 years wasn’t enough.
Also, fuck Trump and his ilk asking for 1 day. They’re a waste of oxygen.
Should be life
This guy was part of the raiding party, shot blindly ten times but didn’t hit anyone (purely by chance mind you), hence the lighter sentence.
DOJ was looking for one day of prison time so when I saw three years I felt like it was a win
Still a disgrace that the officers who actually shot her saw no jail time, and the piece of shit who killed her actually got hired at another police department afterwards.
didn’t they originally give them like 1 day of jailtime?
No, the government asked for 1 day. The judge didn’t take their suggestion.
They haggled from a life sentence to 3 years and everyone is cheering.
It was never gonna be a life sentence. Life was the maximum the judge could have allowed, but it wasn’t gonna get that far.
This guy didn’t fire the fatal shot, and in fact none of the shots he fired found anyone. But he fired 10 shots, blindly into the apartment, after being fired up in by Taylor’s boyfriend (who thought they were being robbed). And he wasn’t convicted of murder or attempted murder, but rather under civil rights laws of depriving Taylor of her civil rights (which is phrasing only a lawyer would love).
If anything, he’s lucky he’s such a poor shot. If he had hit anyone he would have been in a lot more trouble.
Wowee, nearly three years? Really throwin’ the book at him aren’t you Judge? /s
Probably because she lives in Louisville and would have to live with the consequences of her decision. She was appointed by Trump. I have no confidence this decision was based on anything other than self preservation. Louisvillians would burn her house down if she gave him one day.
