HUNDREDS of armed black activists took to the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday demanding justice for Breonna Taylor who was killed during a police raid in the city in March.

Police in riot gear set up barricades and closed streets as a separate, smaller white militia group descended on the town as a counter-protest.

Most of them had left by the time the black activists made their way to the centre of Ms Taylor’s hometown of Louisville.

The protesters, known as the Not F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC), were clad in paramilitary fatigues and armed with shotguns and semi-automatic rifles.

NFAC spokesman John “Grandmaster Jay” Johnson called for authorities to speed up the investigation into Ms Taylor’s death and be more transparent.

“If you don’t tell us nothing we going to think you ain’t doing nothing,” he said in a speech.

Ms Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot dead when police officers burst into her home in a “no-knock” drugs raid.

But the warrant was in connection with a suspect who did not live in the apartment. No drugs were found in the raid.