An apparent calm had returned on Thursday in Louisville after the announcement of the arrest of 127 demonstrators denouncing the legal consequences of the homicide of the African-American Breonna Taylor in this city of Kentucky, where the curfew has been extended.
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After the clashes the night before, Louisville looked like a ghost town while some neighborhoods remained difficult to access, under the control of the police, according to AFP journalists on the spot.
In the early evening, a hundred demonstrators gathered in the city center, despite the extension until the weekend of a curfew taking effect at 9 p.m.
"I often walk past my front door, saying 'the police could come to my house and kill me like they killed Breonna,'" Grace Pennix, a 19-year-old black woman, told AFP.
In the same group of protesters: Michael Pyles, 29, came with a pistol in his belt, as allowed by Kentucky law.
"We are there to protect our own people and those who support us," he testified.
"We can no longer continue to be peaceful".
At the end of a night during which two police officers were wounded by gunshot, the police of the largest city in the state made 127 arrests.
The Kentucky prosecutor announced on Wednesday that he would not prosecute the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor for homicide.
