Breonna Taylor: Two officers shot during Louisville protests

Two policemen have been shot amid protests in the US over a decision not to charge any officers over the killing of Breonna Taylor.

Taylor, 26, a black hospital worker, was shot multiple times as three officers raided her home on 13 March.

A grand jury in the city of Louisville indicted one of the officers with "wanton endangerment" for shots which hit a neighbour's apartment.

The attorney general said the two other officers' actions had been justified.

One of the officers had been hit by a shot fired by Taylor's boyfriend, who later told police he thought it was Taylor's ex-boyfriend who had broken into the apartment.

Cases of killings of unarmed black people by police have fuelled anger across the US and beyond, triggered especially by the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis in May.

Louisville Police Chief Robert Schroeder said the police officers shot on Wednesday did not have life-threatening injuries. A suspect was in custody, he added.

A state of emergency has been declared in Louisville and the National Guard have also been deployed.

Mayor Greg Fischer has set a 21:00-06:30 (01:00-10:30 GMT) curfew in the city for three days. He earlier said he had declared a state of emergency "due to the potential for civil unrest".

Despite the curfew, crowds were still gathered after 21:00. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear urged the protesters to go home.

"We know that the answer to violence is never violence and we are thinking about those two officers and their families tonight. So I'm asking everybody: please, go home. Go home tonight," he said.

Protests over the grand jury's decision were also held in New York, Washington, Atlanta, and Chicago.

(Source: BBC)