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Thousands of people in the U.S. city of Louisville, in Kentucky, are staging protests after authorities announced that no one would be charged with the death of a black woman, Breonna Taylor, in a police shooting in March.

Brett Hankison, one of the three police officers who raided Taylor's apartment, has been indicted for "wanton endangerment" because his bullets targeted a neighboring apartment.

These local residents gave their reaction to the grand jury decision.

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"Angry, very angry, very upset. Basically everything that's going on right now, I'm sure a lot of people are let down hearing what they heard. I just hope it doesn't turn into anger and hope there will be peace."

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The civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden have urged that any protests be peaceful.

The BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports.

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The officers say that they knocked.

Witnesses though say they didn't announce who they were.

The boyfriend of Breonna Taylor thought they were intruders in the home.

He was a licensed gun owner and he fired first.

The attorney general said they were justified in firing back.

They had been carrying out a drug raid.

There were no drugs found on the premises and they were related to an ex-boyfriend of Breonna Taylor of two years earlier.

That's why people were expecting much more in terms of charges against these officers.

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