“Often step through the door of my house and I think, damn, the police might come to my door and shoot me and kill me as they did with Breonna,” he said. “It could be me, my friend, my cousin, aunt, mom,” he added.
The protests, peaceful at first, became violent. Several participants confronted the police, who used flash grenades to disperse the protest. Two officers were shot in the disturbances.
Louisville, Kentucky. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
“What we saw last night with the two officers getting shot is obviously completely unacceptable,” said the mayor.
The chief of police, Robert Schroeder, said that a suspect, Larynzo Johnson, was arrested and charged by two assault charges and 14 charges for endangering the lives of others .
Schroeder said that there were a total of 127 arrests in the city, the largest in Kentucky with a population of 600,000 inhabitants, and at least 16 instances of looting. It will maintain a curfew between 9:00 pm to 6:30 am local time during the weekend.
A large part of the city centre is closed to traffic, and several stores protected their windows with planks before the possibility of new riots . Taylor died on the evening of 13 march, when three plainclothes policemen came to his house with a search warrant.
After that the boyfriend of the deceased opened fire against the agents, according to him, after they have been confused with thieves, they shot him and several of his bullets hit the young man.
Louisville, Kentucky. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
More than six months later, a grand jury decided Wednesday to charge one of those cops, Brett Hankison, put in danger the lives of others, in this case, three neighbors of the victim. But neither Hankison nor the other two officers who used their weapons in the home of Taylor were indicted for his death.
“Until we can give the black people the basic rights promised by our founders – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – and stop the rampage of the devil of racism, we will not know peace , ” the lawyer said of his family, Ben Crump, in an opinion article in the Washington Post newspaper.
The american president Donald Trump, who has made the motto “law and order” one of the engines of his campaign towards the elections of 3 November, tweeted that “prayed” for the police officers hospitalized.
During the last few months, The united states has been the scene of demonstrations exacerbated by various deaths of black citizens at the hands of the police, by political polarization and inflammatory rhetoric of the representative republican .
With information from AFP
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