brett hankison is charged with firing shots that landed in a neighboring apartment.ana, the first witness called to the stand today is a man by the name of cody etherton. he lived in the apartment next door to breonna taylor and he described at one point when he had to hit the floor and he says roll into the hallway when shots rang out and at one point telling his girlfriend who was living there with him at the time to call 911 that police, he says, were firing into the wrong apartment. his amount. also during opening statements the prosecuting attorney in this case laid out, dana, what this case is about in her estimation and what it's not about. she says it's not about breonna taylor. breonna taylor should not have been killed that night. she says it's not about search warrants. it's not about reforming the louisville metropolitan police department. she told jurors what this case is about is brett hankison and his actions that night. she spent a great deal of time during the opening statements describing what he did the moments before the shooting in speak to go br

former officer brett hankison fired 10 shots, but none hit taylor.he's accused of endangering neighbors when bullets tore into their apartment. today's opening statements offered sharply different takes on hankison's actions. >> you will hear that the defendant claimed that he saw into the doorway, the front door and he claimed that he saw a shooter in there with an ar rifle. you will learn that there was no a.r. rifle in apartment 4, there was one pistol, a glock 43 x 9 millimeter. >> he was attempting to defend and save the lives of his brother officers who he thought were still caught in what they call the fatal funnel in that doorway. brett hankison was justified in what he did and everything he did on that scene out there, before during and after the shooting occurred was logical, was reasonable, was justified and made total sense. >> woodruff: police burst into taylor's apartment on a no-knock narcotics search in march of 2020. her boyfriend opened fire, thinking they were intruders, and two officers shot back, killing taylor. the city paid $12

instead, former officer brett hankison is charged with shooting into a neighbor's apartment. that trial is set to begin tomorrow. and today in georgia, a jury reaching a guilty verdict in the federal hate crime case surrounding the death of ahmaud arbery father and son greg and travis mcmichael and neighbor william bryan were all convicted in november for murdering the 22 year-old black man. the 3 men who are white chased and killed operate on a residential street after spotting him in their neighborhood. they claimed he had acted suspiciously. reporter jonelle ford explains the difference in this case versus the murder trial back in november. this time the question was whether race was a motivating factor in why they chased shot and killed arbery. >> show moments outside the brunswick federal courthouse ahmaud arbery's family and supporters celebrating and symbolic victory in a case that sparked a national reckoning on racial injustice. a jury finding the 3 white men convicted of murdering ahmaud arbery guilty federal hate crimes after determining they targeted the 25 year-o

in kentucky in the trial of brett hankison.d 2020 raid in louisville that left breonna taylor dead jurors took a tour of the 26-year-old's apartment yesterday. hankinson's charges are actually not related to taylor's death, he's facing three wanton endangerment charges. no one has been charged with causing taylor's death to this point. >>> the cdc announced new changes to its covid-19 metrics that will allow most people here in the u.s. to unmask indoors and that includes inside schools which has been a big point of contention. the agency will now consider hospitalizations and hospital bed capacity, in addition to covid case loads, to determine if areas of the country are high, medium or low risk. now under this new guidance, only about 28% of the u.s. population listed in high-risk areas such as los angeles and san diego. that's where masks are still recommended indoors. >>> more disruption in major league baseball. you won't see any spring training games until march 8 at the very latest. the owners and players have been caugh

in kentucky, in the trial of brett hankison, the only police officer charged in connection with the botchessville that left breonna taylor tdead, jurors took a tou of the apartment. instead, he's facing three wonton endangerment charges for firing into a neighboring apartment. no one has been charged in taylor's death. >>> and major change in major league baseball, you won't see any meetings until march 8th. the meeting is jupiter, florida, to negotiate a new bargaining unit agreement. >>> the fda is moving forward with plans to ban all menthol cigarettes and cigars. this week, the agency set a proposed ruling from the office of management and budget for review. they've been heavily marketed to racial minorities and studies show these type of products can lead people to become regular smokers, especially younger folks. the rule is going into them before finalized. >>> and the fallout across ukraine is being felt across the globe, particularly in wallets. expect to vee prices at the pump soar as global oil prices are spiking. cnn's christine romans is going to walk us through this. >> boris

brett hankison is one of the 3 former officers who fired during the raid, brianna taylor, that her photo was shot 6 times. no one has been charged in her death. the former officer faces 3 counts of endangering others for firing several shots, which went into the apartment next to taylor's louisville has since banned. no knock warrants. u.s. women. soccer players have reached an agreement to end a six-year legal battle over equal pay. the deal with the u.s. soccer federation promises the women 24 million dollars plus bonuses to match those of man. the money is essentially back pay. 22 million dollars will be split among the players and 2 million will be used to help players and their post soccer careers. the co-director of the centre for sport and social justice says this is a turning point for all women's sports. >> they they do have a prominent place in our cultural viewpoint. and i think that that, yes, this will have impact this will have impact in other sports. and you already start to see some other organizations. the wnba, for instance, where, you know, there's much more of a consc

young black woman in apartment number 4 who died in a hail of gunfire, former police officer brett hankisonor is only accused of endangering her neighbors in apartment number 3. >> this is not a case to decide who is responsible for the death of breonna taylor. >> reporter: he's pled not guilty and is expected to take the stand in his own defense. he's charged with three counts of wanton endangerment. prosecutors say the former officer showed extreme indifference to human life when he fired blindly and three of his bullets rang through the apartment of breonna taylor's next-door neighbor. on the witness stand wednesday that neighbor cody etherton told jurors he was home that night with his pregnant girlfriend and her 5-year-old son and that the gunfire came just inches away from hitting him. >> in my mind i was thinking that for some reason i just thought that somebody was trying to come into our apartment. so my instinct was to go to the front door, of course, to protect my family. >> rporter: hankison's defense lawyers told jurors that the former officer was just responding to gunfire fro