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State Rep. Attica Scott was arrested for rioting last year but charges were dropped A defund the police activist in Louisville, Ky., has thrown down the primary gauntlet against the area’s sixth-term Democratic congressman. Democrat state Rep. Attica Scott has officially announced a primary challenge against the Kentucky congressional delegation’s only Democrat, Rep. John Yarmuth. Scott, who dropped her first campaign ad with her announcement Wednesday morning, said Louisville "needs a leader who sees its true colors and understands the experiences of all of our neighbors." In the ad, the state representative gave her vocal support behind the highly criticized...

Kentucky prosecutors on Tuesday dropped felony riot charges against a state lawmaker and others who were arrested last month during protests over the lack of charges against police officers connected to the death of Breonna Taylor.

Police arrested numerous protesters at the unrest in Louisville, Kentucky, on the second night of unrest, and among those arrested was a Kentucky state lawmaker. Rep. Attica Scott was arrested by police and charged with first-degree rioting, failure to disperse and unlawful assembly. According to WHAS-TV, she was arrested near the First Unitarian Church where protesters were granted sanctuary from police action after the city-mandated curfew to quell rioting and property damage.