What started as a peaceful protest in downtown Bakersfield took a violent turn Friday evening. Black Lives Matter activists gathered at 5:00 p.m. in front of the Bakersfield Police Department to protest for Breonna Taylor, the Kentucky woman who was killed while sleeping in her apartment during a police raid on her home. Demonstrators placed a prominent sign in front of the police station that read, "no justice, no sleep." This comes just days after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that no one will face criminal charges for her death.

“The protesters were peaceful," said Robert Pair, a Bakersfield Police Sergeant. "It appeared no issues and then as the night progressed, events unfolded which forced us to deem the event an unruly event. There’s a certain philosophy that once we show up as we saw it then polarizes both groups and it actually ramps up the issues. So once determined that we needed to get involved, that’s when we got involved.”