Two Louisville officers have been shot during protests, police said, after demonstrations erupted in the US city when charges were filed against only one policeman involved in the fatal shooting of black woman Breonna Taylor.
Two police officers have been shot and wounded in Louisville, Kentucky, during protests ignited by a grand jury decision that civil rights activists decried as a miscarriage of justice in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor.
Announcing the grand jury's conclusions hours earlier, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said that two white policemen who fired into Black medial worker Taylor's apartment on 13 March will not be prosecuted for her death because their use of force during the raid was justified. Protesters immediately took to the streets chanting,"No lives matter until Black lives matter," marching for hours through Kentucky's largest city, amid sporadic clashes with police in riot gear.
Earlier in the day about a dozen people were arrested in one confrontation between hundreds of demonstrators and a group of law enforcement officers in the Highlands neighbourhood just outside downtown Louisville. Former Detective Brett Hankison was indicted on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree, an offence that ranks at the lowest level of felony crime in Kentucky and carries a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison.
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