The family of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American who was shot dead by US officers in March in Louisville, had demanded the United States authorities to release the grand jury’s transcript to show why no police will face direct criminal charges over her death.

Taylor was shot dead by plainclothes police officers, who were executing a search warrant into her apartment in the middle of the night on March 13. Her boyfriend exchanged fire with the officers, who he said he thought were intruders.

Taylor’s death has ignited fresh protests against racism and police brutality in the US, including Louisville after the grand jury on Wednesday, charged detective Brett Hankison with three counts of “wanton endangerment” over shots fired, However, neither Hankison nor the other two officers, who fired the shots at Taylor, were charged with a direct connection with her murder.

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Taylor’s family lawyer Ben Crump at a press conference led chants of “release the transcripts”, calling for them to be loud enough for Taylor to “hear it from heaven.” He described Taylor’s family as being “heartbroken, devastated and outraged and confused and bewildered” at the decision.

He demanded that Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron demonstrate whether he presented “any evidence on Breonna Taylor’s behalf,” or if he had “made sure that her family never got their day in court.”

“It’s like they charged the police for missing” but did not charge them for “shooting bullets in to black bodies,” Crump said.

After the decision of grand jury, which came after a summer of historic civil rights protests in the US, fresh protests have emerged, with thousands demonstrating in Louisville for two nights running, defying a curfew.

US President Donald Trump has expressed fears about violence at the protests in recent months, some of which have devolved into clashes between demonstrators and heavily armed police. On Wednesday night, two officers were shot and wounded at the protests in Louisville, and more than 120 people were arrested, reacting to which the President had said, “Praying for the two police officers that were shot tonight.”