Yesterday, a grand jury decided not to charge the cops who killed Breonna Taylor with murder and instead charged one officer, Brett Hankison, with “wanton endangerment” for firing blindly into Taylor’s home and hitting neighboring homes.
“The wanton endangerment charges were for the white neighbors’ apartment and not for Breonna’s apartment,” Taylor family attorney Benjamin Crump told CBS. “There just seems to be two justice systems in America, one for white America and one for Black America.”
After the decision was announced, demonstrations re-ignited across the country to demand the arrest of all the officers involved in Taylor’s death. In Portland, Los Angeles, New York and other major American cities, scenes of mass Black Lives Matter marches paralleled those of the height of the movement’s resurgence in June.
In Louisville, Kentucky, the city in which Taylor was killed and where interactions between police and civilians escalated, two officers were shot and wounded and at least 127 protestors were arrested.
Meanwhile in Denver, a car rammed into a group of people, continuing a worrying trend of cars driving into peaceful protests as tensions between Black Lives Matter advocates and pro-police vigilantes continue to escalate.
Protests are expected to continue throughout the week.
