Anger erupted on Wednesday afternoon when it was announced that only one police officer would face criminal charges out of three involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this year. Crowds in Louisville, where Taylor was shot at home in March, began marching and many cried moments after the announcement by a judge that a grand jury had decided to indict only Brett Hankison, on three charges of wanton endangerment. Those are regarded as relatively lowly charges. They were related to the fact that Hankison fired his gun while he was still outside Taylor’s apartment and therefore endangered people living in other nearby apartments. Hankison was not charged for shooting Taylor, and the other two officers present, who also fired multiple times at Taylor in her apartment, were not charged. The lawyer Ben Crump said on behalf of Taylor’s family that the grand jury’s decision was “outrageous and offensive”. Crowds gathered in a park in downtown Louisville, where there have been protests every day for months, were largely stunned into silence as the decision reached them and the mood was one of sorrow underpinned with a simmering anger. Moments later, someone screamed out in anguish and people wept, before they began to march.“I’m more saddened than angry,” Monique Lathon, 33, who was there with her young daughter, told the Guardian. David Mour, 59, a lawyer who represents many activists, stood solemnly as the crowd took in the news.“I have had clients indicted for way less,” he said. The civil rights leader Al Sharpton said the charges were “grossly insufficient”, in an interview on MSNBC. The other two officers with Hankison on the night the police broke into Taylor’s apartment as part of an investigation, Jonathan Mattingly and Miles Cosgrove, fired their weapons inside Taylor’s apartment after her boyfriend fired one shot at the officers as they entered. Louisville had been on edge earlier as it waited for the grand jury’s conclusions on whether there would be charges against the three police officers involved in the killing. Taylor’s case has become a rallying cry against police brutality and racism across the US and the world. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, who was Black, was killed on 13 March by white police officers in Louisville serving a so-called “no-knock warrant” that allowed them to charge into her apartment without warning as part of an investigation into an ex-boyfriend. Taylor was at her apartment with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, and asleep when police barged in. Walker, who said officers did not announce themselves, fired a single shot from his gun, believing the police were intruders. One officer was shot in the leg and police fired in return. The attorney general of Kentucky, Daniel Cameron, said in a press conference in the state capital, Frankfort, on Wednesday afternoon “there is no doubt this is a gut-wrenching” outcome of the case for many. Downtown streets in