Officer Brett Hankison is the Only Policeman Who Didn’t Shoot Breonna Taylor… So Why is He Going to Jail?
Amy & T.J.
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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Has justice been served for Breonna Taylor? Amy and T.J. discuss how the two officers who actually shot 26 year old Taylor, asleep in her bed, were never charged in her death… and the one who shot and missed, has just been sentenced to nearly 3 years behind bars. Yes, he was sentenced, but will former officer Hankison actually serve any time in jail… many believe he won’t.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. |
| 0:08.0 | What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? |
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| 0:22.1 | It's a story. |
| 0:23.2 | It's about the scariest night of my life. |
| 0:25.4 | This is Wisecrack, available now. |
| 0:29.1 | Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:37.3 | It's July 22nd, 2025. |
| 0:42.3 | Brianna Taylor was killed March 13th of 2020. |
| 0:47.6 | And today, five years later, one of the three officers who shot at her that night was |
| 0:52.6 | sentenced to jail time. |
| 0:54.0 | He is the only officer charged |
| 0:56.5 | in her shooting death, and he's the only one of the three officers whose bullets did not hit |
| 1:04.6 | Brianna Taylor. Welcome everybody to Amy and T.J. Robs. We are doing this episode, yes, because |
| 1:09.8 | this is timely, but also in part |
| 1:12.1 | because of a conversation that was naturally sparked between the two of us. And it's kind of, |
| 1:18.8 | you kind of had a, wait, what the hell, a moment. Yeah. I mean, look, we cover and we've covered |
| 1:23.3 | crime stories for decades now, and this one is a head scratcher. And you really do kind of have to |
| 1:28.2 | read between the lines and do a little research to figure out what the hell is going on. So |
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