Protesters in Washington, D.C. Demand Justice for Breonna Taylor: ‘Say Her Name!’

Demonstrators calling for the prosecution of police officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor took to the streets Wednesday after prosecutors announced a single officer had been indicted but not on charges involving the Black woman’s death.

Some protesters gathered in Washington DC after officials announced a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officers on criminal charges directly related to Taylor’s death.

Protests across U.S. cities that rekindled as soon as the news of the grand jury’s decision broke Wednesday afternoon appeared to be largely peaceful.

A grand jury brought no charges for the killing of Taylor, who was shot multiple times by police who burst into her home March 13 during a drug raid that went wrong.

State Attorney General Daniel Cameron said the officers’ shots that killed Taylor were fired in self-defense.

The FBI is still investigating potential violations of federal law in the case.

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