A Louisville police officer convicted in connection with a botched raid that resulted in Breonna Taylor’s death was sentenced on Monday to more than two years in prison, days after the government had asked a judge not to incarcerate him.

Brett Hankison, a former Louisville Metro Police Department detective, was found guilty last year of violating Taylor’s civil rights after he blindly fired shots into her apartment in March 2020 during the raid.

Hankison faced a maximum sentence of life in prison but was instead ordered to serve 33 months incarcerated, or two years and nine months, according to The Associated Press.

Shot and killed by other officers during the raid, Taylor became a face of the Black Lives Matter movement that caught fire that year after her death and the police killing of George Floyd, sparking nationwide protests.

Though Hankison’s shots did not........

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