translated from Spanish: Second night of demonstrations: protests in Louisville over Breonna Taylor’s death

Protests over the decision not to charge three police officers involved in the deaths of young African-American Breonna Taylor continued for the second day in a row in Louisville. On this occasion there were fewer arrests, but anger is on the rise among black youth, which considers law enforcement an enemy immune to any act of brutality against them.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of the city, while politicians and leaders called for transparency action and this state’s attorney general, Republican Daniel Cameron, reveals what was based on the investigating jury that decided not to charge anyone for acts directly related to Taylor’s death in March 2020.
Making the information public
The governor of the state, Democrat Andy Beshear, called for the release of “all the information, all interviews, all ballistic reports” so that the public understands the basis of the prosecution. The protesters re-gathered on Thursday (24.9.2020) around an impromptu memorial in the city centre in tribute to Taylor, a 26-year-old medical emergency worker who died on March 13 at the hands of police.
The Prosecutor’s Office did not provide details of how it determined that the actions of the three officers involved in Taylor’s death were “justified,” especially when it seems clear that the decision to enter the woman’s home unannounced to execute a drug trafficking-related record was based on circumstantial evidence.
The investigating jury did not appreciate any mistakes in breaking into the house by force and firing more than thirty shots, six of which ended up hitting Taylor, who was in his bedroom and who was the subject of the investigation because an ex-boyfriend was involved in a drug retail network.
Nor do they explain why they considered taylor’s then boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, to shoot at those who considered intruders who were not advertised as police officers is the basis of non-imputation, but at the same time not to press charges against Walker, whose action is considered legitimate by the state’s permissive gun law. In the end, no drugs or anything illegal were found in Taylor’s home and only one involved, former agent Brett Hankinson, faces charges, but these are out of reckless recklessness for mistakenly shooting a neighboring apartment, not Taylor’s.
Curfew all weekend
In the face of protests, downtown Louisville was filled with cops, who, with the help of the National Guard, armoured and helicopters, imposed a fierce control of the movements as long as the curfew was declared at 9:21 a.m., which will be maintained all weekend. Riot police made several arrests after some protesters threw flares and broke glass in a library. Among those arrested is state lawmaker Attica Scott, who has promoted a law to stop police from searching homes unannounced. Police eventually cordoned off those who defied curfew in a unitary church that offered them shelter. The temple gardens helped the protesters insult and aeer their hatred of the Louisville Police Department. While some protesters clung to batons and bats, others tried to calm their spirits to avoid the previous day’s mass arrests.
Several members of the unitary congregation, with habit and bible in hand, tried to channel this hatred and frustration, accumulated in African Americans across the country, into peaceful protest, but eventually someone pulled a gun out of the crowd and chaos reigned momentarily again. Nevertheless, the night passed much more peacefully than the previous one and the about two hundred protesters who resisted sorry for justice on the street were abandoning the protest without causing further material damage.

Original source in Spanish