Breonna Taylor updates: Curfew extended; Taylor's mother speaks out; Kentucky officials decline Trump's offer for federal help

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Crews cleaned up in downtown Louisville on Thursday as the city braced itself for yet another night of protests following the grand jury decision to charge only one officer for shooting into a neighboring apartment in the case of Breonna Taylor.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer extended the city's curfew through the weekend after more than 100 people were arrested and two police officers were shot during protests in the city overnight.

One officer was released from the hospital Thursday and both are expected to recover. Police said one suspect was in custody.

A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted former detective Brett Hankison, who was fired in June, on three felony charges of wanton endangerment. Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, two other officers involved, were not charged.

Taylor, a 26-year-old ER technician, was killed after officers used a search warrant at her apartment shortly before 1 a.m. on March 13, looking for drugs and cash as part of a larger narcotics investigation connected to her former boyfriend. She was shot six times.

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Here are some recent updates:

• President Donald Trump spoke briefly about Breonna Taylor on Thursday. Asked what he has to say to Taylor's family, Trump said: “I think it's a sad thing and I give my regards to the family. I also think it’s so sad what’s happening with everything about that case, including law enforcement. So many people suffering.”

• Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer both declined Trump's offer of federal assistance. Beshear told The Courier Journal that he has not requested federal assistance at this point. Fischer said Thursday that the city has “the resources we need right here on the ground in Louisville."

• U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he has "full confidence" in the attorney general's investigation and condemned the violence and destruction of property during the protests.

• Protesters also took to the streets in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., to express shock and frustration over the lack of homicide charges for the officers.

Here's what you need to know Thursday:

Breonna Taylor's mother: 'I was holding out hope'

Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor's mother, made a brief appearance at Louisville's Jefferson Square Park, pausing before a memorial for her daughter.

Palmer, who has not spoken publicly since Wednesday's grand jury announcement, was wearing a black satin "Until Freedom" jacket over a white T-shirt with a picture of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron that contained a disparaging comment about him.

​After snapping a few photos, Palmer departed the park, speaking to a Courier Journal reporter before she got into her car to leave. Thursday evening was the first time she’d been at the square since the grand jury decision, Palmer said.

“It’s crazy,” she said. “The love is still here.”

Palmer also recalled her feelings upon hearing that no officers would be indicted for their involvement in Taylor's death.

"Mad . . . Upset. Hurt. A lot of emotions," she said. "I wasn’t surprised, though. I didn’t have faith in them to begin with. I was holding out hope."

Before leaving, Palmer remarked there was "still a lot of work to be done."

"It doesn’t end there," she said. "People need to get out and vote. Voting is going to get the change we need. Protesting is nothing if we don’t take it to the polls.”

– Louisville Courier Journal

'I have no customers': Louisville businesses react to protests, police presence

Despite boarded up windows and shortened business hours, many Louisville business owners said on Thursday they didn't see much trouble or property damage from overnight protests.

From behind the counter at Sicilian Pizza & Pasta on South Fourth Street, an employee echoed the overall sentiment repeated by multiple business owners: It wasn’t that bad.

Mimi Kim, who owns Mimi’s Wigs, went to bed Wednesday night worried about what might happen to her shop if the protests reached it. She closed early Wednesday and watched the store’s cameras from her home until she fell asleep.

Upon her return Thursday, she was happy to find that no damage had been done. It turns out something else had a stronger effect on her business: police precautions.

The barricades, police cars and National Guardsmen who manned the streets downtown, she says, ran her business dry for the day. No one wanted to shop under those conditions or any perceived threat the conditions posed.

“I have no customers. How are we going to survive?” she said.

Read more: Louisville businesses react to property damage after night of protests

— Andre Toran and Dahlia Ghabour

Louisville Fraternal Order of Police says investigation was 'unbiased'

The Louisville chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police issued a statement Thursday on the grand jury's findings.

"The Fraternal Order of Police, as previously stated, believes that the LMPD Public Integrity Unit was conducting a thorough and unbiased investigation of this incident and that when the case was turned over to the attorney general his office completed a thorough and unbiased investigation," local President Ryan Nichols said in a statement.

"When the fact-based evidence was presented to the grand jury they decided that the officers were justified in using lethal force to protect themselves after Sgt. Mattingly was shot by Kenneth Walker," Nichols continued. "Tragically, Ms. Taylor was killed when these officers were forced to protect themselves from Mr. Walker."

Nichols went on to say in the statement that it is "extremely important that the grand jury recognized that state law allows law enforcement officers to protect themselves from these types of attacks while they protect and serve our citizenry every day."

He also said that though former LMPD detective Brett Hankinson was indicted with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for shooting into another apartment, he is "innocent until proven guilty ... and deserves due process like every other citizen in our country."

– Emma Austin, Lucas Aulbach and Ben Tobin

Protesters denounce violence

Adrian Baker, an activist and the student body president of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, said Wednesday's gunfire does "distract" from the message of the protesters' movement.

"I denounce any violence. But we have the knowledge that this could have been avoided, this type of response could have been avoided," he said.

He also called the shooting a "response to injustice."

What's next for the movement remains to be seen. Protest regular Aaron Jordan said the grand jury's decision and Louisville's response has "already changed things," with people protesting the lack of indictments "all over the world."

"People are infuriated," he said. "... It's big for us because we have our disagreements and stuff at the square, but people around the world don't know about that stuff that we deal with day to day. They just see dedicated protesters and they want to do their part standing in solidarity."

– Hayes Gardner and Bailey Loosemore

US attorney speaks out after police officers shot

Federal law enforcement officials are committed to protecting peaceful protesters, U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman said Thursday in a statement. But what happened Thursday night, he said, was not peaceful.

Coleman, who has spoken out against gun violence repeatedly in recent months as the city's homicide rate has spiked, said Louisville is going through a difficult time. That's no excuse, though, he continued, to take advantage of ongoing demonstrations to commit crimes.

"Cross the line from peaceful protest into federal criminal conduct that puts people at risk and we will do everything in our power to swiftly bring federal charges," Coleman said. "If you use lawful protest as a cover to harm this city, be prepared to stare down a federal judge."

– Emma Austin and Lucas Aulbach

Black Lives Matter Louisville doubles down on demands

Louisville's Black Lives Matter chapter said Thursday that their demands haven't changed following Wednesday's indictment.

"Today, and for all the days to come, we will continue to demand justice, seek accountability, and fight for real change," the group's statement said. "The kind of change our city truly needs will only be possible when we fully invest in our people and divest from and defund the police."

Black Lives Matter Louisville has presented six demands in the wake of Taylor's shooting:

• Fire and revoke the pensions of the three officers involved in Taylor's death

• Divest from LMPD and invest in community building

• Issue the immediate resignation or impeachment of Mayor Greg Fischer

• End LMPD's use of force

• Create an independent civilian police accountability board with investigative and discipline powers

• Create a new policy to ensure transparent investigations

– Emma Austin and Lucas Aulbach

Kentucky governor, Louisville mayor respond to Trump's offer of federal assistance

President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that he spoke to Gov. Andy Beshear and is "prepared to work together" after two Louisville Metro Police officers were shot during a night of protests over the lone indictment in the Breonna Taylor case.

Beshear told The Courier Journal on Thursday morning that he has not requested federal assistance at this point.

"He said that if we needed additional help to call, and I told him that I agreed ... that right now we had things under control but appreciated the offer," Beshear said during a brief phone interview with The Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network.

During a press conference Thursday morning, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer responded to Trump's offer, saying “We have the resources we need right here on the ground in Louisville."

– Morgan Watkins

1 of 2 officers shot in Louisville released, protests expected to continue

One of the two Louisville police officers shot during the downtown protests was released from the hospital Thursday and the other is in stable condition, interim chief Robert Schroeder said at a press conference Thursday.

The officers, Maj. Aubrey Gregory and officer Robinson Desroches, were shot at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and suspect Larynzo Johnson, 26, was arrested at 8:40 p.m., according to his citation, which stated he would face multiple charges of first-degree assault of a police officer and first-degree wanton endangerment. Schroeder did not say if Johnson was connected to the protests.

Schroeder said police expect protest activity to continue Thursday night and through the weekend and that police response will look the same as Wednesday.

Mayor Greg Fischer asked protesters to come out earlier in the day after demonstrations in Louisville continued until past curfew Wednesday night.

Police department spokesman Lamont Washington said several fires were set downtown and "several locations" were looted in the early morning hours, but Schroeder said officials don't know if the looting was connected to the protests.

Fellow spokesman Dwight Mitchell told media members just before 8:30 a.m. that a total of 127 people had been arrested. Police have not said if those who were arrested were from Louisville.

Protesters also took to the streets in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., among other places, following Wednesday's announcement.

Louisville cleans up after another night of protests

Crews in yellow jackets are cleaning up around downtown Louisville on Thursday morning after protesters filled the streets the night before following a grand jury’s decision to not indict officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.

Video showed crews sweeping up garbage and putting it into garbage trucks.

A police statement says people were arrested after damaging businesses and more were detained after jumping on city vehicles being used as barricades.

– Associated Press

Taylor family lawyers demand action from attorney general

Lonita Baker, the lawyer for Breonna Taylor's mother, said on CNN Thursday that the two officers who shot Taylor are not entitled to the self-defense justification because the 26-year-old was unarmed and did not pose a threat.

"(Kentucky Attorney General) Daniel Cameron failed," Baker said. "He needs to learn the law of self-defense in Kentucky because as he stated yesterday he was off base."

Ben Crump, one of the attorney's representing Taylor's family, said on CNN Thursday morning that his clients are devastated, outraged and heartbroken. He said the family is demanding that Cameron release the transcript of the grand jury proceedings.

"What did they present to that grand jury? That is the question everyone is asking," Crump said.

Gov. Andy Beshear has also called on Cameron to publicly release evidence from his office's investigation.

Six Louisville police officers still are under internal investigations for their roles in the shooting.

Daily Caller reporters arrested during protests

Geoffrey Ingersoll, the editor-in-chief of a conservative news website, tweeted that Daily Caller reporters Shelby Talcott and Jorge Ventura were detained by Louisville Metro Police and "will be charged with two misdemeanors related to breaking curfew & unlawful assembly for their alleged failure to comply with police orders to disperse and for press to relegate themselves to an 'observation area.'"

Louisville police spokeswoman Jessie Halladay confirmed to The Courier Journal that Talcott and Ventura were arrested.

Brett Hankison indicted, arrested and released

Former detective Brett Hankison was indicted on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, but the charges relate to firing his weapon into the apartment of Taylor's neighbors, not for shooting the 26-year-old.

Hankison was arrested and booked at the Shelby County Detention Center at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. His bond was set at $15,000 cash, and he was released at 5:02 p.m.

Politicians, celebrities react to decision

Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden urged protesters to be peaceful and patient as they await the results of an ongoing federal investigation into the Taylor case, while President Donald Trump also tweeted that he was praying for the officers shot Wednesday.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he has "full confidence" in the attorney general's investigation and condemned the violence and destruction of property during the protests on the Senate floor on Thursday.

From LeBron James and John Legend to Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi, several celebrities and other public figures spoke out about the decision.

Experts: Federal civil rights charges against officers are unlikely

The FBI opened an investigation into Taylor's fatal shooting in May, and on Wednesday the bureau said its investigation remains open.

But former Justice Department officials said prosecutors must clear a high bar before bringing such a case.

Jonathan Smith, former chief of the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division during the Obama administration, said the “willfulness standard is very high, making a federal prosecution hard to win.”

"You basically need to show that the officers acted with the purpose of taking away her civil rights," he said.

And it's highly unlikely that the Justice Department will pursue a broader investigation of the Louisville Police Department.

One of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' last acts in office was to limit federal oversight of police departments in the form of pattern-and-practice investigations and consent decrees, which are court agreements requiring agencies to undergo reforms.

Contributing: Morgan Watkins, Darcy Costello, Tessa Duvall, Emma Austin and Hayes Gardner, Louisville Courier-Journal; Ledyard King, Michael Collins, Kevin Johnson and Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY; The Associated Press

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Breonna Taylor live updates: Tamika Palmer reaction; curfew extended