LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Angry, confused and shedding tears, demonstrators who spent months calling for justice in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor resumed their protests Wednesday after prosecutors announced a single officer had been indicted — but not on charges involving the Black woman’s death inside her Louisville, Ky., apartment in March.
The protests, which rekindled as soon as news of the grand jury’s decision broke Wednesday afternoon, were largely peaceful. But shortly before a 9 p.m. curfew, two police officers were shot and injured.
Meanwhile, a weekly Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles evolved into a rally for Taylor after the grand jury’s decision was announced Wednesday.
On Thursday, demonstrators were marching in Hollywood when police say a truck drove into the crowd, striking and injuring at least one person.
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Los Angeles
Thursday in Hollywood, a protester who was hit by a car is attended to as paramedics arrive on Sunset Boulevard.
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Protesters in Hollywood square off Thursday with LAPD officers armed with less-lethal weapons.
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Miracle Murphy chants as she demonstrates in against the Kentucky grand jury decision in the case of Breonna Taylor’s death.
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A Prius runs through a crowd of people on Sunset Boulevard and North Cahuenga Boulevard during a protest Thursday.
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A protester prays on Sunset Boulevard. About 300 people marched through Hollywood on Thursday.
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Protesters block Sunset Boulevard during a protest held for Breonna Taylor in Hollywood.
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People gather at Hollywood Forever Cemetery to protest the Kentucky grand jury decision in the case of Breonna Taylor’s death by Louisville police.
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Byron Crenshaw and Sharon Smith hug each other Wednesday while listening to a speaker in downtown Los Angeles.
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Protestors taunt an LAPD officer outside the headquarters in downtown Los Angeles after a ruling in the Breonna Taylor case Wednesday.
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Protesters walk along 7th St. on Wednesday as diners take pictures from a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles.
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Hundreds of demonstrators march past downtown Los Angeles.
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Demonstrators push along a shrine to Breonna Taylor in downtown Los Angeles.
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A lone demonstrator climbs a light pole at the corner of Main and 1st Street in downtown Los Angeles.
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A weekly Black Lives Matter demonstration in downtown Los Angeles evolved Wednesday into a rally for Breonna Taylor.
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Trai Icart joins the demonstration in downtown L.A.
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Hundreds gather downtown for the demonstration.
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Lorissa Torcero writes a poem on a sign at the Los Angeles rally.
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A protester who gave her name as Merieme rallies in Los Angeles.
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Protesters with images of Breonna Taylor in Los Angeles.
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Janaya Khan, right, embraces Black Lives Matter Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah at the L.A. rally.
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A woman in Louisville, Ky., reacts to the news of the Breonna Taylor case decision.
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Kentucky
Louisville police detain a man after a group marched in Louisville, Ky. A grand jury has indicted one officer on criminal charges six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in Kentucky.
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Protesters in Louisville.
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Police and protesters converge in Louisville.
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Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor’s mother, center, with family attorney Benjamin Crump in Louisville after a settlement was announced recently. The city of Louisville will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a settlement.
