Armed protesters march in Kentucky, demand justice

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky A group of heavily armed Black protesters marched through Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in March by police officers who burst into her apartment.

Scores of the demonstrators, carrying semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and clad in black paramilitary gear, walked in formation to a fenced off intersection where they were separated by police from a smaller group of armed counter-protesters.

The militia dubbed NFAC want justice for the late Ms Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who died in a hail of gunfire when drug investigators bearing a “noknock” warrant entered her Louisville home four months ago.

One police officer involved in the raid was fired by the city’s police department in June. Two other officers have been placed on administrative reassignment. No criminal charges have been filed against any of the three.

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Picture: REUTERS Members of an all-Black militia group called NFAC hold an armed rally in Louisville, Kentucky, US.