Hundreds of demonstrators chanting Breonna Taylor’s name took part in the fresh Black Lives Matter protests by marching through the streets of Washington, DC on Wednesday, after a grand jury in Kentucky decided not to charge police officers for her death igniting fresh anger over police brutality in the United States.
Protesters dressed in all black carried placards showing the name of Taylor, a Black emergency medical technician who was shot six times and killed in March after three police officers forced their way into her home with a search warrant in a drug trafficking investigation.
“Black people, brown people, we’re all tired of the injustice and the disrespect that we’re seeing” said one of the protestor.
Similar protests erupted in New York, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Portland and Chicago after a grand jury in Taylor’s hometown Louisville, Kentucky decided on Wednesday none of the police officers involved in the raid on her apartment would be charged for causing her death.
This year the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests emerged after killing of George Floyd, who like many other victims died from suffocation after a white police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes.