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Armed black protesters march in US demanding justice for Breonna Taylor

by REUTERS

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky Jul 26, 2020 - 1:58 pm GMT+3
Grand Master Jay, center, leader of an all-black militia group called NFAC, leads his followers on a march during an armed rally in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. July 25, 2020. (Reuters Photo)
Grand Master Jay, center, leader of an all-black militia group called NFAC, leads his followers on a march during an armed rally in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. July 25, 2020. (Reuters Photo)
by REUTERS Jul 26, 2020 1:58 pm

A group of heavily armed black protesters marched through Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed in March by police officers who burst into her apartment.

Scores of the demonstrators, carrying semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and clad in black paramilitary gear, walked in formation to a fenced-off intersection where they were separated by police from a smaller group of armed counter-protesters.

The black militia dubbed the NFAC want justice for Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who died in a hail of gunfire when drug investigators bearing a “no-knock” warrant entered her Louisville home four months ago.

One police officer involved in the raid was fired by the city’s police department in June. Two other officers have been placed on administrative reassignment. No criminal charges have been filed against any of the three.

MORE — Black militia dubbed NFAC march through Louisville demanding justice for 26-year-old black woman killed by drug investigators entering her home pic.twitter.com/cjiYy8GMhk

— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) July 26, 2020

The leader of the NFAC group, John “Grandmaster Jay” Johnson, called on officials to speed up the investigation into her death and to be more transparent.

“If you don’t tell us nothing we going to think you ain’t doing nothing,” Johnson said in a speech, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Taylor’s death, which returned to prominence following the May 25 suffocation in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, has become a rallying cry in nationwide protests against police brutality and racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.

The NFAC first drew attention on July 4 when they rallied in Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta to demand the removal of the giant Confederate rock carving at the site that civil rights activists consider a monument to racism.

In Louisville on Saturday, three members of the group were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries when a weapon was accidentally discharged, police said.

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