SHOCKING New Sentencing SCANDAL: Breonna Taylor

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Trump’s DOJ Caught in SHOCKING New Sentencing SCANDAL
Katie Phang
Jul 21, 2025

ONE day in jail. Trump DOJ’s Civil Rights Division recommends only ONE day in jail for the ex-cop who was found guilty of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights, resulting in her murder. Katie Phang on this disgustingly partisan move by the DOJ.



Transcript

Just when you think the Trump
administration Department of Justice
can't sink any lower, the Civil Rights
Division says, "Hold my beer because we
are in a race to the bottom of the
barrel." On Monday, a former law
enforcement officer will be sentenced
after a jury found him guilty of
violating the civil rights of Briana
Taylor. That man's name is Brett
Hankesen. H an N K I S O N. And last
year, a federal jury in the state of
Kentucky, Kentucky, excuse me, found him
guilty of violating her rights by using
excessive force when he discharged
several shots from his service revolver
into her window during a drug raid that
went crazy. Now,
okay. He was convicted of the following
offense. Deprivation of rights under
color of law. This was after a trial
happened. So a jury of his peers was
seated and he sat um in front of this
jury and a jury of his peers sat in
judgment of him and found him guilty
beyond and to the exclusion of every
reasonable doubt. According to federal
prosecutors at the time under the Biden
DOJ, not Trump DOJ, federal prosecutors
said that Hankisones fired 10 shots
through a window and a sliding glass
door that were covered with blinds and
curtains. Stop. Just stop for a second.
You, as a police officer, fire more than
10 shots into a sliding glass door and a
window covered with blinds and curtains,
and you know it's an occupied location.
and it's in the middle of the night
and you give zero consideration to the
fact that innocent people could be
inside there that could be injured.
According to federal prosecutors,
multiple bullets traveled through the
wall and into an apartment next door,
but by the grace of God didn't hit
anyone.
The officers who were a part of this
drug raid, who actually fired the shots
that killed Briana Taylor, were never
charged.
Hankinson was charged and part of the
rationale as to why those officers that
actually fired the shots that killed her
was her boyfriend Kenneth Walker was
firing as police breached the apartment.
Stop. They were executing a warrant.
Did they announce their presence prior
to entering? That remains unclear,
but it is the dead of night. And when
somebody is busting down your door,
it is a common idea that you're going to
defend yourself with what you got. It's
the castle doctrine. You can defend your
home. And I don't think it's an
unreasonable idea. Now, listen again.
Did the police announce that they were
going to be entering the premises?
So, in a sentencing memo in advance of
this former officer Brett Hankinson's
sentencing, which is coming up on
Monday, July 21st,
the Department of Justice Civil Rights
Division submitted a sentencing
memorandum. Now, I want you to I I know
I keep on saying stop, but I'm just I'm
just baffled by this. These are the
prosecutors that prosecuted this, right?
And so they're submitting a sentencing
memorandum to the court to consider to
be able to decide what this Henson guy
is going to get.
So according to the sentencing memo, the
Justice Department wrote
that quote, "There is no need for a
prison sentence to protect the public
from the defendant."
Although a judge did rule that the
evidence was sufficient for a jury to
believe that Briana Taylor was still
alive when Hankinson fired the first
five of his 10 bullets through her
bedroom window.
The sentencing memorandum from the Civil
Rights Division of the Department of
Justice seeks one day of incarceration.
Someone has died. an innocent woman has
died. And the Department of Justice
thinks that one day of incarceration
should be sentenced should it should be
the sentence. And why one day? That's
the amount of time that Henson spent in
jail before he bonded out. So basically,
with his credit time served, credit for
time served, he wouldn't serve a single
day in jail, more so than he's already
done, which is one day. And again,
somebody's dead.
No career line prosecutors from the
Department of Justice signed off on the
sentencing memo. Two people signed off
on it. The first, a guy named Robert J.
Keenan, senior counsel for the Civil
Rights Division, who by no coincidence
was also involved in the Department of
Justice's efforts to undo a jury verdict
that found a former LA County deputy
guilty of a felony charge in an
excessive force case. And that's
according to the NBC News. The second
person to sign off on this is the actual
person running the Department of
Justice's civil rights division, a woman
by the name of Harmy Dylan. If her name
sounds familiar, it should. She's a cult
follower of convicted felon Donald
Trump, a Trump apologist.
And she, having been appointed the head
of the civil rights division of the
Department of Justice, has
single-handedly begun to dismantle that
division. In what ways? We'll get into
that in a minute.
Former civil rights division official
Samantha Trepple wrote on LinkedIn after
hearing about the sentencing memorandum
that the bullets fired by Henson had
missed a sleeping baby by about 2 feet.
She predicts, and hopefully she's right,
that the court will recognize the
Justice Department's request for this
one day of a sentence as a quote
transparent last minute political
interference into a case that was tried
by non-political, longtime career
prosecutors who obtained this conviction
in front of an all-white jury of
Kentucky citizens before a Trump
appointed judge. Now, let's get into the
details of what harming Dylan as the
head of the civil rights unit kind of
what her DNA and fingerprints on all of
this is supposed to look like. Because
let me be clear, Henson, he's looking at
life in prison. Life in prison for
killing Briana Taylor. And at this
point, the DOJ thinks that he should do
one day in jail. The judge that is
presiding over this case, her name is
Rebecca Grady Jennings
and Hermy Dylan has taken the position
that the prosecution of Heninson was
quote excessive.
She says in her memorandum that the
Biden Justice Department secured a
conviction against Hankinson only after
he had already been acquitted on state
charges and that he had had a mistrial
in the first federal criminal trial of
this cop.
She claims that because he's now a
convicted felon, that he was fired from
his job 5 years ago, understandably so
when you kill somebody, and that he had
already paid a substantial penalty for
his actions and so he shouldn't be
punished anymore.
Sounds like some privilege there. The
memorandum signed by Harit Dylan says,
quote, "The jury's verdict will almost
certainly ensure that defendant Henson
never serves as a law enforcement
officer again and will likely also
ensure that he never legally possesses a
firearm again."
The family of Briana Taylor through
their lawyer and spokesperson says the
following. They are heartbroken and
angry. The family asked for one thing,
that Brett Henson be sentenced in
accordance with the law and federal
guidelines. Recommending just one day in
prison sends the unmistakable message
that white officers can violate the
civil rights of black Americans with
near total impunity. End quote. I will
disagree with that family in only one
small way. They say near total impunity.
I'm going to tell you right now, if this
man gets one day in jail for killing
Briana Taylor, that is total impunity.
It is not near total.
Hankinson, again, the only cop that was
charged for what happened during that
botched drug raid. And although his 10
bullets didn't kill Briana Taylor, he
was a part of that drug raid. and he was
found to be as responsible as those that
fired the shots.
The chief of the Louisville Metro Police
Department was fired as a result of what
happened in the wake of the death of
Bana Taylor and the Justice Department,
the Biden Justice Department conducted
an investigation and two years ago
issued a report that reflected that the
Louisville Metro Police Department
showed a pattern of discriminating
against black people.
Since Harmy Dylan, however, has taken
over the civil rights division, hundreds
hundreds of lawyers and staff have left
that division disgusted with the turn in
priorities that has happened.
They also say that veterans have been
driven out of that administration
because,
excuse me, they have been driven out of
that office by Trump administration
officials who want to aggressively
pursue cases against the Ivy League,
other schools, and liberal cities. that
is now the priority for the civil rights
division of the DOJ.
The Justice Department after Trump was
inaugurated in January immediately
halted any new civil rights cases or
investigations.
It also said it was going to back out of
Biden era agreements with police
departments that had engaged in
discrimination or violence.
And
the Biden administration had taken it
upon itself to make sure that it
aggressively investigated and prosecuted
and got consent judgments against law
enforcement agencies, police
departments, people. You know, these
these these these law enforcement
agencies are supposed to be
they're supposed to be places that we
trust and these are people that we call
when we need help. And when there's a
pattern and practice of discrimination,
when there's a pattern and practice of
of a disregard of of of intentional
conduct that violates civil rights, of
course, there has to be something
remedially fixed. There's got to be a
fix to this. It's got to be it's got to
be taken care of. And the Biden
administration pursued those priorities.
Two memorandums sent in the civil rights
division, one of which was by Chad
Meisel, the chief of staff at the
Department of Justice, ordered a
litigation freeze at the Civil Rights
Division to decide whether Trump wanted
to pursue any new cases. And the second
memo ordered a similar freeze on DOJ
activity involving the consent degrees,
the ones that I talked about where the
police department enters into agreement
with the Department of Justice to make
sure that it screens its employees,
trains its employees, and that it makes
sure that there is no pattern and
practice of discrimination or violation
of civil rights. These consent decrees
are agreements, as the New York Times
explains, hashed out with local
governments intended to address flawed
police practices or bias based on race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation,
and disabilities. Again, discrimination.
Discrimination that is either in
policies and procedures or maybe it's
not in fact, but in practice, right?
Maybe it's not listed in a standard
operating procedure, but you know that
this department is doing it. In May of
this year, Harme Dylan announced that
she was backing out of those agreements
with not only Louisville, the Bana
Taylor department, but in Minneapolis,
which was the George Floyd department.
Instead, Dylan says that they're going
to prioritize the enforcement of her
dear furer's priorities. Right?
She says, quote, "The zealous and
faithful pursuit of this section's
mission requires the full dedication of
the section's resources, attention, and
energy to the priorities of the
president." Period. End quote. Wrong.
Harmy Dylan could not get this more
wrong.
The priorities of any division of the
Department of Justice is not what Donald
Trump wants it to be. It's what the rule
of law is. It's what the law requires.
It's not what a
politically motivated president wants to
see happen.
So now the Civil Rights Division at
Department of Justice prioritizes
investigations into anti-Christian bias,
non-compliance with Trump's executive
orders and fiats and anti-semitism.
Again, caveat. Of course, I don't have a
problem with any idea of combating
anti-semitism, but you can't use that as
an excuse, though. You can't hide behind
this claim of we're fighting
anti-semitism to be able to go and
violate people's civil rights.
I'm disgusted. One day, just when you
think they couldn't go any lower, as I
started this segment,
just when you think they couldn't go any
lower, they show you that they're
capable of even worse.
One day in jail for this cop for being a
part of that drug raid where Briana
Taylor was killed. This cop who fired 10
freaking bullets. One day is
insufficient. I am putting energy into
the universe that this judge does the
right thing because it is so patently
obviously political and partisan on its
face. If the only reason why this is
being done is because this is what Harmy
Dylan at the behest of Donald Trump,
convicted felon himself. So look, I
guess they have something in common,
huh? convicted felon Donald Trump,
convicted felon Brett Henson.
But it's what Trump wants, right? It's
not because of justice and it's
certainly not because it's what the law
should be. Be mad, be outraged, demand
accountability. We're going to watch
this one carefully as well. I'll see you
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