Kentucky's only Black female legislator arrested on felony rioting charge at Breonna Taylor protest
Related: State Rep. Attica Scott calls charges 'frivolous' after arrest while trying to join protesters (WLKY-TV)
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Source: Washington Post
Kentucky’s only Black female legislator arrested on felony rioting charge at Breonna Taylor protest
By Jaclyn Peiser
9/25/2020, 10:58:40 a.m.
As the only Black female representative in the Kentucky Capitol, state Rep. Attica Scott (D) took action after the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police raiding her home in March. In August, Scott proposed Breonna’s Law, a bill that would end no-knock warrants statewide. And when a grand jury decided not to indict the officers in Taylor’s death, Scott joined hundreds of protesters in the streets of Louisville.
On Thursday night, Louisville police arrested Scott along with a handful of other protesters near First Unitarian Church and the Louisville Free Public Library, which had allegedly been set on fire, according to a police report reviewed by WAVE. The state representative received a felony charge of first-degree rioting and two misdemeanors for failure to disperse and unlawful assembly, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. The paper reported Scott was released from jail Friday morning.
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Louisville police arrested at least 24 people Thursday night, the department said in a Facebook post. In a news conference on Thursday, interim police chief Robert Schroeder said authorities arrested 127 people on Wednesday night.
The protests began on Wednesday after the three officers involved in the Taylor’s fatal shooting were not indicted in her death. A grand jury in Jefferson County, Ky., instead indicted Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police detective who was fired in June, with three charges of wanton endangerment in the first degree. The verdict meant the former detective endangered the lives of Taylor’s neighbors by firing the rounds.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/25/breonna-taylor-protest-scott-arrest/
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Source: WLKY-TV
State Rep. Attica Scott calls charges 'frivolous' after arrest while trying to join protesters
Updated: 3:42 PM EDT Sep 25, 2020
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
State Rep. Attica Scott said she's ready to fight the "frivolous" and "trumped up" charges against her after she was among several demonstrators arrested by Louisville Metro police officers Thursday evening in downtown Louisville.
"LMPD immediately jumped on us. They yelled 'circle them, circle them,'" she said Friday. "I've never been arrested before, so I was pretty shocked because I couldn't understand what was happening and they gave us some trumped up charges; and when got to go to court next month and fight them."
Scott, who recently pre-filed a bill called "Breonna's Law" that would end no-knock warrants in the state, was booked Thursday evening on three charges, including first-degree rioting, which is a felony.
"They (LMPD) claimed we were trying to burn down library which doesn't make sense because I've been fighting for more funding for the libraries and the library is in my district. So, why would I try to burn it down? Makes no sense," she told WLKY News outside the jail Friday morning.
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Read more: https://www.wlky.com/article/state-rep-attica-scott-among-those-arrested-during-downtown-louisville-demonstrations/34153548
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