Louisville police officers shot during nationwide protests
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Ms Taylor, 26, was shot dead in her apartment in a drugs raid sparked by incorrect information about a previous boyfriend.
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Two police officers have been shot in Kentucky in the US after no officers were charged with offences directly linked to the killing of Breonna Taylor in March.
Protesters have been marching in Louisville, Kentucky's largest city, with some arrested after scuffles broke out with officers.
At a news conference, police chief Robert Schroeder said the officers were hit after deploying to the centre of the city following reports of shots being fired.
He said they were being treated at University Hospital where one was "alert and stable" with the other "undergoing surgery and stable".
He added that one suspect was in custody.
Police in protective gear, National Guard members and armoured military vehicles were ordered into Louisville as protesters responded with tears and anger following a grand jury decision not to charge police officers for the fatal shooting of Ms Taylor.
Prosecutors announced a single officer had been indicted, though not on charges directly involving the 26-year-old's death on 13 March.
Of the three officers involved, Brett Hankison was the only one to be indicted on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment - after he fired his gun into neighbouring apartments.
He could face up to five years in prison for each of the three counts.
Kentucky's attorney general Daniel Cameron said the investigation found the remaining two officers were justified in their use of force.
When police lined up with shields outside the courthouse, protesters threw plastic water bottles at them.
Later on, police in riot gear fired flash bangs and formed a line at Jefferson Square - which has been at the centre of the protests.
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The square largely cleared before a night time coronavirus curfew as demonstrators marched through other parts of downtown Louisville.
Protests have erupted across the US in retaliation to the Breonna Taylor decision, with demonstrators marching through the streets of New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
Protesters in New York were heard chanting, "Say her name, Breonna Taylor," as they marched on a street in downtown Brooklyn.
A grand jury brought no charges for killing Ms Taylor, who was shot multiple times by police who burst into her home during a drug raid gone wrong. While there were no drugs in Ms Taylor's apartment, her boyfriend shot and injured a police officer.
President Donald Trump praised Kentucky's Republican attorney general for his handling of the investigation into Ms Taylor's death.
He read from attorney general Daniel Cameron's statement that "justice is not often easy."
"I said, 'write that down for me please cause I think it was a terrific statement,'" the US president said.
“That’s How You Do It!” BLM Protesters Celebrate After 2 Cops Shot During Riots in Louisville
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At least two officers were reportedly shot in a barrage of gunfire during Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots on Wednesday night in Louisville.
Several livestreams captured the moment shots were fired:
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“That’s how you gotta do it!” a BLM supporter was heard shouting after shots were fired. “That’s the way you do it! They bustin’ on them! They got off on them, baby!”
A SWAT team was sent out in response.
As reported earlier, the rioters were filmed getting shields and supplies from a U-Haul rented by Holly Zoller, who works for The Bail Project which has several Soros fellows on their board.
UPDATE: This may have captured the shooting (see the man in yellow on the far right).
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Rioters Attack Drivers in Hollywood
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And the Los Angeles Times wants you to think the driver was the aggressor.
Rioters in Hollywood attacked two vehicles that refused to stop as they blocked traffic Thursday evening during “Black Lives Matter” protests {snip}
The Los Angeles Times reported the incidents under the headline: “Vehicle plows through Breonna Taylor protesters in Hollywood, hitting at least one person.” {snip}
The Times included footage of one angle of the incident, claiming protesters were “struck”:
However, footage of the incident shows that the person who was allegedly “hit” had climbed on top of the truck, and fell off when the truck braked:
The crowd attempted to attack the truck before the driver sped away. {snip}
In another incident, rioters attempted to stop a Toyota Prius that was attempting to drive through an intersection they had blocked, and they began attacking it. When the driver attempted to escape, the rioters chased it with a truck and a support vehicle, forcing the Prius to stop. Rioters then assaulted the driver: one even smashed the windshield with a flag, which apparently read “Black Lives Matter.”
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She Wore a BLM Mask to Work at Whataburger. After a Customer Complained, She Lost Her Job.
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Misleading title: she quit herself.
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The first day Ma’Kiya Congious wore her Black Lives Matter mask to work, no one seemed to bat an eye. In fact, several customers at the Whataburger location in Fort Worth complimented her on the face covering, which is also emblazoned with a fist.
But when the Black 19-year-old returned to work the following Monday, a White customer threatened to call the hamburger chain’s corporate office over the mask, she said, prompting a chain of events that led Congious to lose her job and her managers to call the police on their own employee.
As Whataburger insists it did nothing wrong and was in fact accepting Congious’ resignation, the former cashier filed a discrimination complaint Wednesday with Texas state officials. She alleges she was let go specifically because of her race and the message on her mask.
Following a summer of nationwide protests against racial injustice, her incident is the latest in a long string of episodes in which employers have disciplined workers over masks expressing support for the movement.
In San Antonio last week, a charter school fired an art teacher who refused to stop wearing Black Lives Matter masks to her classroom. A Milwaukee pizza store owner terminated and then physically scuffled with a delivery driver who insisted on keeping the message on his face coverings.
And in late July, 14 workers at Whole Foods locations across four states filed a class-action lawsuit against the supermarket chain, charging that the company retaliated against them for wearing BLM masks and pins.
On July 31, when Congious first showed up to work wearing the BLM mask, managers at her store located in a historically Black part of town did not raise any concerns, she said in her complaint to the Texas Workforce Commission.
It was not until the following Monday, when a White customer complained and made the threat to contact the chain’s headquarters, that Congious’s managers sat her and other co-workers down and said they had to wear masks with “no opinions whatsoever on them.”
In the midst of an increasingly heated conversation, she asked the supervisors how to request her two weeks’ notice.
“You want to put your two weeks’ notice in?” a manager responded, according to the recording shared with The Washington Post. “We accept it, and you don’t have to come back at all.”
Congious had not yet decided to quit, she later clarified in her complaint, and merely wanted to ask about her options. But when she pushed back to her supervisors and remained inside the store, they called the police on her, she said. Five cars responded to the scene, and Congious left and did not return to work.
The company said in a statement that Congious had “voluntarily resigned due to a disagreement over our company uniform policy”
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