Protesters clash with LAPD at Breonna Taylor’s Hollywood rally

Protesters marking the anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death clashed with cops in Hollywood late on Saturday – with a savage video showing a police car driving away with someone hanging from its hood.

At least 200 people traveled to Hollywood and Vine on Saturday night to seek justice for Taylor, who was fatally shot by police in Louisville, Ky., In a botched raid a year ago, KABC said .

At one point, a group of black-clad protesters – some holding umbrellas as smoke filled the air around them – were filmed blocking a line of at least six cars from the LAPD team trying to get out of the way. pass.

After one protester blocked the way to the lead car, another came and banged on the hood – the two then climbing onto the hood, video shot by Sean Carmitchel shows.

The car then drove off, with one of the protesters managing to jump but the other remaining on the hood as the police car drove away, pursued by a group of screaming spectators.

“Holy shit!” someone was heard shouting, accompanied by repeated cries: “Medic! Medical! Medical! Medical!”

Carmitchel later said that the protester on the car was not seriously injured. The Los Angeles Police Department’s operations center told KABC it had few details about the incident.

It happened during a night of tense confrontations with police in riot gear, the station said.

The pictures also showed scribbled graffiti around the area, including “die pigs” and “f – k 12”, an anti-police message commonly used during protests.

Taylor’s front door was violated by Louisville officers as part of a drug raid in the early morning hours of March 13, 2020. Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired his gun once, claiming later that he feared an intruder would enter the apartment.

One officer was shot, and he and two other officers fired 32 shots into the apartment, hitting Taylor five times.

A grand jury indicted an officer with gratuitous endangerment in September for shooting at a neighbor’s apartment, but no officer has been charged in connection with Taylor’s death.

A Kentucky judge last week signed an order finalizing a criminal case against Walker for shooting the officer.

Walker filed a federal complaint against the Louisville Metro Police Department on Friday, alleging that his constitutional rights were violated in the botched raid.

With pole wires