Daily Beast: “One of the three Louisville Metro Police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, a Kentucky EMT worker fatally shot in her home during a botched police raid, has been indicted on charges of wanton endangerment, a judge announced Wednesday. In a zoom court hearing, Circuit Judge Annie O’Connell said a grand jury had indicted officer Brett Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree. Officers Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove were not charged.”
“According to Kentucky law, wanton endangerment is considered when an individual ‘engages in conduct which creates a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to another person,’ and shows extreme indifference to human life. The charge carries a maximum sentence of fines of up to $10,000 and five years in prison. Hankison had already been fired from the Louisville P.D. for showing ‘extreme indifference to the value of human life’ by ‘blindly’ firing 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment, endangering other residents, according to his termination letter.”