Breonna Taylor: Louisville police officers shot during nationwide protests

<p>Protesters have been marching in Louisville, Kentucky's largest city, with some arrested after scuffles broke out with officers.</p><p>At a news conference, police chief Robert Schroeder said the officers were hit after deploying to the centre of the city following reports of shots being fired.</p><p>He said they were being treated at University Hospital where one was "alert and stable" with the other "undergoing surgery and stable".</p><p>He added that one suspect was in custody.</p> <p>Police in protective gear, National Guard members and armoured military vehicles were ordered into Louisville as protesters responded with tears and anger following a grand jury decision not to charge police officers for the fatal shooting of Ms Taylor.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/breonna-taylor-killing-police-officer-facing-criminal-charges-six-months-after-shooting-12079574" target="_blank">Prosecutors announced a single officer had been indicted</a></strong>, though not on charges directly involving the 26-year-old's death on 13 March.</p> <p>Of the three officers involved, Brett Hankison was the only one to be indicted on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment - after he fired his gun into neighbouring apartments.</p><p>He could face up to five years in prison for each of the three counts.</p> <p>Kentucky's attorney general Daniel Cameron said the investigation found the remaining two officers were justified in their use of force.</p><p>When police lined up with shields outside the courthouse, protesters threw plastic water bottles at them.</p> <p><strong>:: Subscribe to the Daily podcast on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sky-news-daily/id951048357?mt=2" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvMzI4NzI0Ni9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk" target="_blank">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3RdXZrbbG3NydLsPYmRSJy" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/sky-news-daily" target="_blank">Spreaker</a></strong></p><p>Later on, police in riot gear fired flash bangs and formed a line at Jefferson Square - which has been at the centre of the protests.</p> <p>The square largely cleared before a night time coronavirus curfew as demonstrators marched through other parts of downtown Louisville.</p><p>Protests have erupted across the US in retaliation to the Breonna Taylor decision, with demonstrators marching through the streets of New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta and Philadelphia.</p> <p>Protesters in New York were heard chanting, "Say her name, Breonna Taylor," as they marched on a street in downtown Brooklyn.</p><p>A grand jury brought no charges for killing Ms Taylor, who was shot multiple times by police who burst into her home during a drug raid gone wrong. While there were no drugs in Ms Taylor's apartment, her boyfriend shot and injured a police officer.</p> <p>President Donald Trump praised Kentucky's Republican attorney general for his handling of the investigation into Ms Taylor's death.</p><p>He read from attorney general Daniel Cameron's statement that "justice is not often easy."</p><p>"I said, 'write that down for me please cause I think it was a terrific statement,'" the US president said.</p>