Ex-Louisville detective charged in Breonna Taylor shooting sexually assaulted women, lawsuit claims
Ex-Louisville detective charged in Breonna Taylor shooting sexually assaulted women, lawsuit claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/11/hankison-sexual-assault-lawsuit-louisville/
When a police officer working security at a Louisville bar offered Margo Borders a ride home in April 2018, she accepted. The 22-year-old law student was drunk that night, but said she felt safe with the officer, who had previously befriended her and often messaged her on Snapchat seeking relationship advice.
But when they got to Borders’s apartment, he didn’t leave, according to a lawsuit obtained by The Washington Post. Instead, she alleges, he followed her into her apartment, waited until she passed out on her bed, and then sexually assaulted her.
In the lawsuit filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court on Tuesday, she said the man — former Louisville detective Brett Hankison — left her “physically injured and mentally battered.” And her attorneys allege that Hankison had a long history of preying on women.
Hankison, 44, made national headlines this year as one of three Louisville police officers directly involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Black emergency medical worker who was killed while police raided her home in March. In September, a grand jury in Jefferson County indicted Hankison, who was fired in June from his job as a detective, with three charges of wanton endangerment in the first degree, alleging that he had endangered the lives of Taylor’s neighbors None of the officers faced charges connected to Taylor’s death.
