On Monday, former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months in prison for his role in the murder of Breonna Taylor. Hankison was one of three officers who broke into Taylor’s apartment while attempting to execute a falsified, no-knock warrant. He fired 10 shots, indiscriminately, toward Taylor’s bedroom. He didn’t hit Taylor, or her boyfriend Kenneth Walker, but some of his bullets passed into the apartment next to Taylor’s. After multiple trials, Hankison was convicted last year on one count of violating Taylor’s civil rights. He will likely be the only officer to face justice for killing Taylor.

Hankison received a light sentence, any way you slice it. The maximum sentence for a violation of civil rights that results in death is life in prison. Now, realistically, Hankison was never going to receive life because his individual shots did not strike the killing blow. Probation officials recommended a sentence of 135–168 months—which is in keeping with the guidelines for this kind of violation. Reuters reports that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines calls for 33–41 months. I’m not sure where they’re getting that number, but my hunch is that they’re using the guidelines for when deprivation of civil rights results in property damage, which I suppose you can get to since Hankison’s bullets didn’t actually hit anybody. Still, even if you somehow think Hankison’s crime was against property, 33 months is at the low end of the spectrum.

The judge who sentenced Hankison is Rebeca Grady Jennings, a former Kentucky lawyer who was appointed by Trump to the federal bench in 2018. Critics should be all over her for handing out a light sentence, but they’re not, because the Trump Justice Department, which has been busy decimating its Civil Rights Division, did something even more preposterous: It asked Jennings to sentence Hankison to just one day in prison.

People are right to focus on the gross insult of suggesting that a cop who has been convicted of a civil rights violation in a crime that led to the death of an innocent woman be sentenced to just one day in jail. But let’s not miss the fact that Judge Jennings essentially did what the Trump administration wanted her to do: treat Hankison with the leniency and mercy Hankison did not show to Taylor. She didn’t let Hankison waltz out of her courtroom and onto a show on Fox or Newsmax that is probably waiting for him, but she didn’t “throw the book” at him either. She did not punish him to the fullest extent of the law. Just because her sentence is better than the literal nothing the Trump administration asked for, however, doesn’t mean her sentence is justified. I promise you that if I unconstitutionally broke into someone’s apartment and then fired 10 shots in the dark, and a white woman died, I would not be going home inside of three years.