I'm watching the Grand Jury hearing from #LouisvilleKy.
Officer Brett Hankison - who shot Breonna Taylor charged with 3 counts "Wanton endangerment in the first degree."
This is the definition of the Class D Felony (times three) that the cop who killed Breonna Taylor was shot for.
It only includes "substantial danger of death" but the fact that she died (aka murder or manslaughter) is not included in the charge.
The officer gets $15,000 bail.
The officer faces $10,000 and up to five years in prison for each of the three counts. In theory, the police officer who killed Taylor faces an absolute maximum of 15 years in prison and $30,000 fine.
The other officers in this case are not charged at all. The grand jury has concluded their work.
He is not actually being charged for killing Taylor.
The charge of endangerment is for the act of shooting a gun blindly into an occupied apartment, which endangers *other* lives.
That Taylor died - so says the grand jury - is not part of the crime.
Incredibly, after the police officer killed Breonna Taylor with 8 bullets, he reported that she sufferred "no injuries" on the official government report of the incident.
According to the grand jury, that may as well be true.
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