A federal judge has sentenced an ex-Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly Breonna Taylor raid, declining a U.S.

Brett Hankison is the only officer who fired into Taylor's apartment to be charged and convicted of any crime.

By Jack Queen, Julio-Cesar Chavez and Sarah N. Lynch LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) -Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was sentenced on Monday to 33 months in prison for violating Breonna Taylor's rights during the raid in which she was shot and killed,

Prosecutors said the former Louisville police detective fired through a window and a sliding glass door in the botched raid that killed Taylor.

A former Kentucky police detective, convicted in connection with the raid and deadly shooting of Breonna Taylor, was sentenced Monday to 33 months in prison.

Hankison fired 10 shots through Taylor's apartment windows during the botched drug raid, though his bullets didn't strike anyone. The shots passed through the walls into a neighboring apartment. Taylor, 26, was killed by two other officers in her hallway after her boyfriend fired at police, striking an officer in the leg.

Bianca Austin, aunt of Breonna Taylor, was detained by police on Monday (July 21) as protestors awaited the sentencing of former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison.