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Louisville Police announced that two of their officers were shot and arrested during demonstrations in the city on Wednesday night in the US state of Kentucky to protest the Public Ministry’s decision to try a single police officer in the murder case. of black citizen Briona Taylor in March.
Acting Police Chief Robert Schroeder said: “Two policemen were injured by bullets while receiving treatment at the University Hospital,” he assured that their condition is stable and their lives are not in danger, but one of them was operated on.
He added that the shooting took place around 8:30 p.m., that is, half an hour before the entry into force of the curfew imposed by local authorities earlier in the day (the first Thursday morning GMT) .
Schroeder said police had arrested a suspect, while the FBI announced that it had opened an investigation into the attack.
And Louisville and many major American cities witnessed spontaneous demonstrations Wednesday to protest the extremely lenient judicial treatment of the three police officers involved in Taylor’s murder in Louisville last March.
Source: French press agency
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