A heavier sentence would be “unfair”: a day in prison required against a police officer for the death of a black woman in the United States

Unusual fact, this recommendation is signed, not from the prosecutor in charge of the file, but of the assistant minister of justice, in charge of civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative lawyer appointed by President Donald Trump in this strategic position.

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“The government respects the jury’s verdict which almost certainly guarantees that the accused Hankison will never serve in the police again. Consequently, also probably that he will never legally hold a firearm,” she said.

But a heavier penalty would be “unfair”. she argues, stressing that “if he has made a blind blind man to Ms. Taylor’s apartment, he injured neither she or anyone that day”.

He only started to shoot after Breonna Taylor’s companion bounded one of his police comrades, heavier sentence would “unfair”: day added Harmeet Dhillon.

The lawyers of the victim. including Ben Crump, in advance in the affairs of violence against the minorities, qualified in a press release these particularly mild requisitions of insult to the life of Breonna Taylor and the flagrant betrayal of the decision of the jury “.

“Recommend only a day in prison sends the unambiguous message that white police can violate the civil rights of black Americans with almost total impunity. ” they deplore.

Breonna Taylor had been killed by at least eight balls by the police. in her apartment, in Louisville, in Kentucky (center-east), on March 13, 2020.

“In Brussels. there have been ‘I am Georges Floyd’, but we will never hear ‘I am Adil’, nobody wants to identify with a youngster of the neighborhoods”