⁍ A second night of anti-racism protests got off to a tense but mostly peaceful start in Louisville, Kentucky.


⁍ A grand jury decided not to bring homicide charges against police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.


⁍ Taylor, 26, a Black emergency medical technician and aspiring nurse, was struck by six bullets moments after she and her boyfriend were roused from bed in the commotion of the raid.


– A grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officers who shot and killed a 26-year-old black woman during a drug raid in Louisville, Ky., has sparked protests across the country. In Louisville, more than 100 people have been arrested and two police officers were shot and wounded as protests over the March 13 death of Breonna Taylor turned violent late yesterday and early today, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Police say at least 24 people were arrested for “unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, and riot in the first degree” and more than 100 others for disobeying orders to disperse, Reuters reports. The two wounded officers, one of whom was hit in the leg by a bullet and the other in the arm by a bullet, are expected to recover, police say. The officers who fired the 32 shots that killed Taylor and injured her boyfriend were indicted on charges of wanton endangerment for firing into an apartment next door, but the grand jury decided there was “no conclusive evidence” that any of the shots that killed Taylor ever struck her, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron says. The officers, who are now on paid administrative leave, were conducting a narcotics investigation when Taylor and her boyfriend were woken up by the sound of gunshots, the AP reports. Her family has agreed to pay $12 million to her family.



Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/global-race-usa-louisville-report/louisville-anti-racism-protests-resume-amid-tensions-over-breonna-taylor-ruling-idUSKCN26E2R6