Louisville Officer Shot During Breonna Taylor Protests

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September 24, 2020

Updated Sep 23, 2020, 09:43pm EDT

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The FBI said Wednesday night that a Louisville police officer has been shot amid protests following a grand jury decision not to charge the officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s death.

Police officers form a line during protests on September 23, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. … [+] Protesters marched in the streets after a Kentucky Grand Jury indicted one of the three officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor with wanton endangerment.

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“The FBI Louisville SWAT team has responded to an LMPD officer being shot and will continue to assist in the investigation,” the agency tweeted.

The Louisville Metro Police Department told local TV station WAVE 3 News that the shooting occurred downtown at Brook Street and Broadway at about 8:30 p.m.

Protests have already broken out in the city after the grand jury’s decision caused outrage.

No one was charged in the killing of Taylor, though former officer Brett Hankison, who was fired, faces three counts of “wanton endangerment in the first degree” for shooting into a neighboring apartment.

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I’m a San Francisco-based reporter covering breaking news at Forbes. I’ve previously reported for USA Today, Business Insider, The San Francisco Business Times and San Jose Inside. I studied journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and was an editor at The Daily Orange, the university’s independent student newspaper. Follow me on Twitter @rachsandl or shoot me an email rsandler@forbes.com.

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