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GREG FISCHER
MAYOR

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TO: Detective Brett Hankison #6150
Criminal interdiction Division

FROM: Robert J. Schroeder
Chief of Police

DATE: June 19, 2020
RE: PRE-TERMINATION OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND
SUMMARY OF CHARGES:

The attached document summarizes the charges against you. This document
further indicates my current intention to terminate your employment with the
Louisville Metro Police Department.

INTENDED ACTION: TERMINATON FROM EMPLOYMENT

You have been advised of the charges against you and my intended action. This
is to advise you, you will have an opportunity before me and my selected staff to
respond to the intended action, address the factual determinations set forth in the
attached corres ondence, and to further explain your side of this matter on
at - You may have an attorney or union
representative with you if you so desire. .

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Robertil.? Schroeder
Chief of Police

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June 19, 2020
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MAYOR OF POLICE

June 19, 2020

Detective Brett Hankison #6120
Criminal Interdiction Division

Public Integrity Case #20019

Dear Detective Hankison:

Please be advised of my present intention to terminate our emplo ment with the Louisville
Metro Police Department. However, on? abyoo will have an
opportunity, with counsel or union representative, if you desire, to provide me with additional
information or mitigating factors. I intend to take this action based upon my review of the Public
integrity Unit investigation file, which was initiated on March 13. 2020. The investigation
conducted by the Louisville Metro Police Department?s Public integrity Unit was provided to me
on Tuesday evening, June 16, 2020 for review. The following is the result of my subsequent
revrew.

Violations of:

Standard Operating Procedure 5.1.2 Obedience to Rules and Regulations (4 counts)
-Sustained

Standard Operating Procedure 9.1.12 Use of Deadly Force (10 counts) ?Sustained

have determined you violated Standard Operating Procedure 5.1.2 Obedience to Rules and
Regulations when your actions displayed an extreme indifference to the value of human life
when you wantonly and blindly fired ten (10) rounds into the apartment of Breonna Taylor on
March 13, 2020. These rounds created a substantial danger of death and serious injury to
Breonna Taylor and the three occupants of the apartment next to Ms. Taylor's. I make my
determination pursuant to the preponderance of the evidence.

You also violated Standard Operating Procedure 9.1.12 Use of Deadlv Force when you used
deadly force by blindly firing ten (10) rounds into Breonna Taylor's apartment without supporting
facts that your deadly force was directed at a person against whom posed an immediate threat
of danger or serious injury to yourself of others. in fact the ten (10) rounds you fired were into a
patio door and window which were covered with material that comptetely prevented you from
verifying any person as an immediate threat or more importantly any innocent persons present.

533 WEST STREET LGUESVELLE, KY 413202
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You further failed to be cognizant of the direction in which your firearm was discharged.

Some of the rounds you fired actually travelted into the apartment next to Ms. Taytor?s
endangering the three lives in that apartment. You have previously been disciplined for reckless
conduct that injured a innocent person in Professional Standards Case #17-062 for which you
were disciplined on January 9, 2019.

Based upon my review, these are extreme vioiations of our policies. find your conduct a shock
to the conscience. I am alarmed and stunned you used deadly force in fashion. You have
never been trained by the Louisville Metro Policed Department to use deadly force in this
fashion. Your actions have brought discredit upon yourself and the Department. Your conduct
has severely damaged the image of our Department we have established with our community.
The result of your actions seriousty impedes the Department?s goal of providing the citizens of
our city with the most professional law enforcement agency possibte. I cannot tolerate this type
of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department. Your conduct demands
your termination. have the utmost confidence in my decision to terminate your employment for
the best interest for the Louisville Metro Potice Department and our communtty.

Sincerely.

     

Robert J. Schroeder
Chief of Police

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Cc: Lieutenant Colonel L. Chavous
Major J. Schwab
Major K. Burbrink
Wm. Dennis Sims
Professional Standards Unit

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