Washington-SANA
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, witnessed a mass demonstration denouncing the violence and rejecting the racism and repression of the US police on the occasion of the first anniversary of the killing of a young African American at the hands of the city police.
The demonstrators, as reported by Agence France-Presse, "regret that justice has not been served," despite the passage of a year since the killing of Briona Taylor at the hands of Louisville police.
In turn, the attorneys of the victim's family strongly criticized the local court ruling to indict only one of three policemen involved in Taylor’s murder, which exposes the young woman’s neighbors to danger, considering this verdict as “insulting and scandalous”.
For his part, the FBI official in Louisville, Robert Brown, tried to contain the protests, pledging to commit to "completing the investigation until appropriate conclusions are reached," only to talk about "significant progress" in the case.
Taylor, a 26-year-old medical assistant, was killed in her apartment on the thirteenth of March last year when security agents broke into her, investigating a drug case involving her ex-boyfriend, and they were carrying an arrest warrant that entitles them to enter the house without the permission of the owner.
Over the past months, the United States has witnessed massive anti-racism protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent murders committed by the US police against citizens of African descent.