Houston Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills was arrested on Tuesday in Louisville and faces a crime charge after participating in a protest at the home of the Kentucky Attorney General.
Stills, 28, was booked at 11:36 p.m. local time and charged with bullying a participant in the legal process, a crime, according to the Louisville prison reservation book.
He was also charged with the offense of disorderly conduct and criminal intrusion. Stills was one of 87 people arrested after walking to the home of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in a protest against the death of Breonna Taylor.
Louisville Metro police spokesman Lamont Washington told local media that all of the protesters, including Stills, had the opportunity to leave Cameron’s home before being arrested.
Washington said in a statement, obtained by the Louisville Courier-Journal, that the 87 protesters faced similar charges “because of their refusal to leave the property and their attempts to influence the attorney general’s decision by their actions “.
Taylor, a black emergency medical technician, was shot eight times in Louisville on March 13 by plainclothes officers who were serving a narcotics search warrant at her apartment. She was 26 years old. No drugs were found.
Louisville saw weeks of protests against the shooting and Cameron was the subject of scrutiny for not having charged any of the three officers involved in the Taylor murder.
A staunch supporter of social initiatives against racial prejudice and police brutality for a long time, Stills also participated in a march for Taylor last month in the state capital of Kentucky. Last month, he attended the funeral of George Floyd in Houston and then tweeted that “sports are a distraction from movement”.
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