Former LMPD detective Brett Hankison in custody at federal prison for role in Breonna Taylor raid

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A former Louisville Metro Police detective reported to federal prison Thursday for violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights.

After several delays, Brett Hankison was ordered to turn himself in to begin serving his 33-month prison sentence.

Bureau of Prison records Thursday morning showed Hankison was not in custody yet. But a spokesperson for the Fort Dix prison in New Jersey confirmed just before 9 p.m. that Hankison had arrived to the low-security federal prison.

Hankison's attorneys wanted the report date delayed while they appealed the conviction to a higher court, but that was denied by a federal judge earlier this week.

In Nov. 2024, a federal jury found Hankison guilty of violating Taylor's civil rights during a March 13, 2020, police raid of her home when he fired 10 shots into her apartment through a sliding glass door and window that were covered by blinds.

The shots nearly hit her and an officer as well as ripping through the wall into a neighboring apartment where a family and a child were sleeping.

The jury found Hankison not guilty of violating the civil rights of Taylor's neighbors.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has criticized the handling of Hankison's case by previous prosecutors and had asked U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings to sentence him to one day of incarceration – already served when he was booked – and a three-year term of supervision.

But that motion was denied.

In March of 2020, Hankison shot through a covered window into Taylor's apartment during a raid. His shots did not kill her. He's the only officer who was at the scene to be convicted.

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