About 200 demonstrators gathered at the Humboldt County Courthouse on Thursday, calling for justice for Breonna Taylor as part of a nationwide protest one day after a grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, brought no charges against police officers involved in her March 13 fatal shooting while serving a no-knock warrant at emergency medical technician’s home.
One officer was charged with wanton endangerment for shooting into a nearby home.
Demonstrators in Eureka marched down Fourth and Fifth streets, many calling out “Breonna Taylor,” “Black Lives Matter” and “say her name” before blocking Fifth Street in front of the courthouse for a time.
At least one demonstrator was reported to be hit and injured by a truck around 7:40 p.m. and an ambulance was responding.
The death of Taylor, who was 26, at the hands of police is among many whose names have been invoked during months of Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S.
This article appears in Burger Week 2020.
It is the protester/s that should be charged. As part of my self-defense instruction, I teach my students to do exactly that. If they are surrounded by a mob of angry protesters, HIT THE GAS. The same reasoning and logic are used in any case of road rage. It is not smart to pull over to the side of the road for a crazy man with road rage. That is a dangerous and unacceptable expectation. Do you not remember Reginald Denny?