By Joe Biesk
The Associated Press

LOUISVILLE - More than 200 people marched Sunday to speak out against the city's police department, and to support a citywide boycott of Louisville malls.

Protesters - some of whom drove in from Cincinnati - said they were seeking criminal charges against two Louisville officers, Detectives Michael O'Neil and Bryan Luckett, who were involved in the fatal shooting of a handcuffed man, James Taylor.

"We are not going to back down," said the Rev. Milton Seymore, pastor of the Energized Baptist Church in Louisville. "We are not going to continue to watch our sons and daughters get shot with no one being held accountable for it."

A grand jury cleared the two officers in connection with Taylor's death last month. Taylor, a 50-year-old black man, died Dec. 5 after O'Neil shot him 11 times. Taylor's hands were handcuffed behind his back.

Protesters urged boycotts of the city's malls for at least 90 days. They said they want to boycott until O'Neil and Luckett are fired from the police department and face federal criminal charges.

"Money talks. What we're saying with this boycott is, `My money talks, too,' " said the Rev. Tim Duncan, a member of the Justice Resource Center in Louisville. "And what we're saying with our money is, `We want justice and we want it now.' "

The Rev. Damon Lynch III, president of the Cincinnati Black United Front, led a contingent from Ohio. Lynch's group has organized a boycott in Cincinnati that has prompted some organizations and performers to stay away, including entertainers Bill Cosby and Wynton Marsalis.

"Police brutality is not just a Cincinnati and a Louisville problem. It's a national problem," Lynch told the crowd. "You need to let Louisville know that you can't take our money and kill us at the same time."

Organizers said they were planning another march and demonstration next Sunday.