A federal jury has convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force. Breonna Taylor and depriving her of her civil rights.

According to reports from Associated Press, ABC News And Louisville Public Mediaformer detective Brett Hankison was convicted for his role in the botched 2020 drug raid in Louisville that ended with Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT who was sleeping in her bed, dying from a gunshot wound.

The 12-person jury cleared Hankison Friday of another charge accusing him of using excessive force on three of Taylor’s neighbors, ABC reported, before returning its guilty verdict around 9:30 p.m.

Hankison’s conviction is the only one so far among all officers involved in executing the search warrant, which was later found to be based on erroneous information, according to Louisville Public Media.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division addressed the crowd at the courthouse after the verdict was read, saying, “Breonna Taylor’s life mattered.”

“We hope that the jury’s verdict recognizing this violation of Ms. Taylor’s civil and constitutional rights will bring some comfort to her family and loved ones who suffered so deeply from the tragic events of March 2020,” Clarke added, according to the ‘AP.

Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, also spoke to the media after Hankison’s sentencing. She wiped away tears as the verdict was read.

“Thank God, thank God for covering for 12 jurors who chose to do the right thing, who took their time to understand what was really going on and that Breonna deserved justice,” Palmer said, according to Louisville Public Media.

“It took a long time. It took a lot of patience. It was difficult. The jurors took their time to really understand that Breonna deserved justice,” Palmer added, according to the AP.

Shortly after midnight on the night of March 13, 2020, Taylor — an aspiring nurse who worked as an EMT — was in her apartment with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker when Louisville Metro police officers were carrying out a no-knock warrant loaded through the door. The warrant was related to a narcotics investigation in which Taylor was not a suspect and police found no drugs or cash in his apartment.

Walker fired at police as they broke down the front door, and officers reportedly responded by firing more than 20 rounds into the apartment, resulting in finally killed Taylor.

Taylor’s shooting sparked months of protests in Louisville, and his name joined those of others invoked across the country by demonstrators demanding justice for black victims of alleged bias or police brutality — among them Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, George Floyd in Minnesota and Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.

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None of the officers who shot Taylor — former Sgt. John Mattingly and former detective Myles Cosgrove have been charged in her death, according to AP. Prosecutors said they were both justified in returning fire, since Walker shot them first.

This was Hankison’s second trial in the case, after a judge declared a mistrial last year. Hankison also before faces three counts of wanton endangerment for allegedly firing 10 bullets into Taylor’s apartment, but he was acquitted of charges in March 2022.

Hankison is scheduled to be sentenced on March 12, 2025, according to LPM. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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