Breonna Taylor: Kenny Stills arrested during a Kentucky protest

American football player Kenny Stills was among 87 people arrested for protesting outside the Kentucky Attorney General’s house against the police’s murder of Breonna Taylor.

You have been accused of intimidating a trial participant and other crimes.

An African-American woman, Breonna Taylor, was fatally shot when officials entered her home on March 13.

One official was released and two others were taken on administrative leave.

Stills, a 28-year-old Houston Texans recipient, said he had “good problems with my brothers and sisters” while “peacefully protesting.” They are charged with misconduct and criminal offenses.

Black Lives Matters protesters are demanding justice for Ms. Taylor, George Floyd and other African Americans who have died from the police.

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Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron has received a series of protests against the lack of charges against the officials involved in Ms. Taylor’s murder.

What happened to Breonna Taylor?

The police suspected that Ms. Taylor’s apartment was being used by a gang at another address 16 km away to get drugs. One of the suspects was Ms. Taylor’s ex-boyfriend.

Shortly after midnight on March 13, police officers Brett Hankison, Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove entered Taylor’s home by executing a search warrant without knocking – a court document authorizing the police to enter a house without permission.

Ms. Taylor and her partner Kenneth Walker are reported to have been asleep when the commotion began.

Police said they knocked before using a battering ram to enter the house, although this account was contested by Ms. Taylor’s family and a neighbor.

The officers exchanged fire with Mr. Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911, assuming the drug heist was a slump. The officers – who had fired more than 25 bullets – said they returned fire after an officer was shot and wounded.

During the exchange, Ms. Taylor, a paramedic, was shot eight times. She died on her floor.

Mr. Walker surrendered and was arrested for attempting to kill a police officer.

Ms. Taylor was one of three people named in the warrant, according to Wave 3, a subsidiary of Louisville NBC. However, it was not the main topic of the investigation, reports the city’s Courier-Journal.

No medication was found on the property.

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Police officer Brett Hankison was accused of “blindly” firing 10 rounds at Ms. Taylor’s apartment, which shows “extreme indifference to the value of human life.”

Robert Schroeder, interim chief of the Louisville police, wrote in a letter published by the Courier Journal that his behavior was “a shock to the conscience” that “requires your dismissal”.

“The outcome of your action seriously hinders the department’s goal of providing the city’s citizens with the most professional law enforcement agency possible. I cannot tolerate this type of behavior from any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department.”

Lawyers from Ms. Taylor’s family said they wanted the other officers to be released.

A lawsuit filed by Ms. Taylor’s family accuses officials of battery, unjustified death, excessive violence, and gross negligence.

“We are also looking forward to prosecuting these officials for their role in their untimely death.”