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Breonna Taylor’s aunt arrested outside courthouse as cop in deadly raid gets 33 months
Breonna Taylor’s aunt was arrested outside a Louisville courthouse Monday. Bianca Austin was one of four people taken into custody as protesters jumped on cars outside the Gene Snyder Federal Building. Austin was charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway, according to court records. Taylor was killed by police in 2020 after they executed a no-knock warrant while conducting a raid on her boyfriend’s home. Her boyfriend, who was carrying a legally owned firearm and thought the couple were being robbed, shot at police, prompting them to fire back 22 times into the apartment. Ex-Louisville cop Brett Hankison was found guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights last year and sentenced to 33 months in prison.
Bianca Austin was one of four people taken into custody as protesters jumped on cars outside the Gene Snyder Federal Building ahead of Monday’s sentencing of ex-Louisville cop Brett Hankison, who was found guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights last year, according to USA Today.
4 Bianca Austin was one of four people taken into custody as protesters jumped on cars outside the Gene Snyder Federal Building. Matt Stone/Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Louisville police responded to reports of protesters causing problems in the street — and when they arrived, found Austin in the middle of the intersection “clapping her hands” and blocking vehicles, according to a police report obtained by the outlet.
They said Austin approached them while “clapping and yelling in their face,” the report stated.
Other protesters were filmed jumping on cars, video from the scene shows.
4 Taylor’s death, as well as the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, sparked mass racial justice protests around the country. Facebook
“What we saw today in front of the courthouse in the street was not safe, acceptable or legal,” Lousivlle Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Matthew Sanders said in a statement. “Creating confrontation, kicking vehicles or otherwise creating an unsafe environment will not be tolerated.”
Austin was charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway, according to court records. She is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday.
Hankison, who was fired from the Louisville Police Department after Taylor was killed, was found guilty last year of violating Taylor’s civil rights after he blindly fired 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment while police executed a no-knock warrant raid — none of which actually struck Taylor.
4 Austin was charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway, according to court records. Matt Stone/Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
He was sentenced to 33 months in prison — even though the Justice Department recommended he just get one day in prison.
“It wasn’t justice, but I got essentially what I started out for, which was jail time,” Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, told CNN after the sentencing, adding that she found the Trump administration’s suggestion insulting.
“Breonna never stood a chance in that courtroom,” Palmer added.
4 Hankison, who was fired from the Louisville Police Department after Taylor was killed, was found guilty last year of violating Taylor’s civil rights. Matt Stone/Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Hankison was not immediately taken into custody and will remain free until the federal Bureau of Prisons decides where he will serve time.
Taylor was killed by police in 2020 after they executed a no-knock warrant while conducting a raid on her boyfriend’s home.
Her boyfriend, who was carrying a legally owned firearm and thought the couple were being robbed, shot at police, prompting them to fire back 22 times into the apartment.