Protests arrest

two charged wilson june 2 2020

Lexington late monday night led to the arrest of two people.

Police say nineteen-year-old kaulbert wilson and a fifteen-year injured others and damaged property.

According to police... wilson ran across the top of multiple cruisers....then he and others attempt to flip a police cruiser with an officer inside.

He's also accused of breaking a car window, removing the driver and punching him in the head police say the arrests were the only real disruption in otherwise peaceful protests.

Last night's protest was smaller than the one held sunday... which had a few hundred people.

During monday's protest... officers were seen hugging, marching and kneeling with protesters.

An online petition calling for justice for breonna taylor has hit over a million and a half signatures.

The petition was started by a law student and urges governor beshear to arrest all of the officers involved in taylor's death.

It also calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the louisville police department and an end to "no-knock" warrants.

The petition also says the louisville metro police department should be made to pay taylor's family for quote: "wrongful death and negligence."

Today some religious leaders and politicians condeming