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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Gotham Wednesday night in massive demonstrations over a Kentucky grand jury’s decision to clear Louisville cops of wrongdoing in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

More than 600 protesters massed outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center by 8 p.m., with scores more joining them before the throng moved in a giant wave across the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges — even as hundreds of others marched down from the Upper East Side.

“Forget ‘Turn the other cheek,’” one protester said over a loudspeaker outside the Brooklyn arena. “We’re way past that. It’s ‘eye for an eye’ now.”

The mob then marched into Manhattan, stalling traffic on the Manhattan Bridge and converging with another group on the Lower East Side, growing to more than 1,000 strong.

They continued to move late into the night, forming a human wall as they marched south on Broadway.

Another group of marchers made their way down from the Upper East Side, chanting “Say her name” along Fifth, Park and Lexington avenues, waving “Breonna Taylor” and “Black Lives Matter” signs.

The demonstrations remained peaceful late into the night — although a handful of Lower Manhattan protesters splashed red paint and plastered “Paint The City Red” posters on store windows.

The protests erupted just hours after former Louisville cop Brett Hankison was indicted for “wantonly” firing his service weapon during the botched police raid that left Taylor dead.

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Protesters march through Chinatown holding signs as a couple looks on in Manhattan following a Kentucky grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor, on Sept. 23, 2020. Stefan Jeremiah
Protesters march across the Manhattan Bridge
Protesters march across the Manhattan Bridge following a Kentucky grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor on Sept. 23, 2020. AP
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Protesters march across the Manhattan Bridge
Protesters march across the Manhattan Bridge following a Kentucky grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor on Sept. 23, 2020. AP
Protesters gather outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, on Sept. 23, 2020.Stefan Jeremiah
Black Lives Matter protesters leave the Barclays Center and march north on Flatbush Avenue on Sept. 23, 2020. William C. Lopez/NY Post
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A protester holds up a sign at the Pulitzer Fountain during a demonstration held to demand justice for the death of Breonna Taylor in New York City, on Sept. 23, 2020. EPA
Black Lives Matter protesters leave the Barclays Center and march north on Flatbush Avenue on Sept. 23, 2020.William C. Lopez/NY Post
NYPD officers in riot gear monitor Black Lives Matter demonstrators protesting the death of Breonna Taylor
NYPD officers in riot gear monitor Black Lives Matter demonstrators protesting the death of Breonna Taylor.Christopher Sadowski
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A protester at the Pulitzer Fountain during a demonstration held to demand justice for the death of Breonna Taylor in New York City, on Sept. 23, 2020Peter Foley/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
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Protesters march down Broadway holding signs in Manhattan, on Sept. 23, 2020.Stefan Jeremiah
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Shattered glass at a bus station on Bowery, following a Kentucky grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor on Sept. 23, 2020.Kenneth Bachor/NY Post
Black Lives Matter demonstrators in New York City on Sept. 23, 2020Christopher Sadowski
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"ACAB" graffiti in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, following a Kentucky grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor on Sept. 23, 2020.Kenneth Bachor/NY Post
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A memorial to Breonna Taylor in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on Sept. 23, 2020Kenneth Bachor/NY Post
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Demonstrators march in a protest following a Kentucky grand jury's decision not to indict any police officers for the killing of Breonna Taylor in New York CIty, on Sept. 23, 2020. AP
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Hankison, who was fired in June, was the only one of three cops involved in the raid — and none were charged with causing Taylor’s death.

The decision sparked massive protests in Louisville Wednesday night, with the outrage spreading to the Big Apple and elsewhere in the US.

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