Brett Hankison, the former Louisville Metro Police Department Detective, who was involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, is now being accused of sexual assault.
According to CNN, a new lawsuit filed on Tuesday calls the disgraced Hankison a “sexual predator” who “used his police uniform and secondary nightclub employment as mechanisms to prey on innocent women who are two decades younger than him.”
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff, Margo Borders claimed she and Hankison had met in 2017 and had a mutual friend; she also revealed that Hankison “frequently messaged” her on Snapchat and reached out to her when he was “having problems with his girlfriend,” according to the lawsuit.
Borders lawsuit detailed a night in 2018 when she visited a Kentucky bar where Hankison worked as security, called the Tin Roof, to meet some friends in 2018. Border explained she was intoxicated that night, and when it was time to leave the bar and as she was about to call an Uber, Hankison insisted that he drive her home and invited himself into her apartment. The woman said she went to her room and fell asleep, and when she was unconscious, Hankison “willfully, intentionally, painfully and violently sexually assaulted” her.
Borders said when she regained consciousness, she yelled for Hankison to get off her, and he then grabbed his uniform and left her room, according to the lawsuit.
The woman also alleged that Hankison messaged her later that day in an attempt “to try and suggest that the two had engaged in consensual relations,” according to the lawsuit.
Sam Aguiar, one of the attorneys for the woman (as well as an attorney for the Taylor family) said, “Margo and so many other women put their trust in what they thought was a police officer doing a good deed. He responded by damaging their lives,” in a statement. “We are confident that this litigation will send a message that the community will hold the police accountable when the department itself fails to do so.”
