Activists hold vigil outside slain man's apartment

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY - Civil-rights activists in Louisville, Kentucky said Monday they were following in Martin Luther King Junior&#39;s footsteps with protests over the shooting of a handcuffed black man by a white police officer. <br> <br> The activists spent part of the federal King Day holiday outside the inner-city apartment of James Taylor, whose hands were bound behind his back when he was shot 11 times by a police detective last month. <br> <br> The Reverand Louis Coleman, director of the Justice Resource Center, said King would have taken up the cause for justice in Taylor&#39;s death. <br> <br> The slain civil-rights leader&#39;s son, Martin Luther King The Third, has been among national black leaders to speak out against the shooting. <br> <br> Findings from an internal police investigation into Taylor&#39;s death have been turned over to the commonwealth&#39;s attorney&#39;s office. The detective who shot Taylor remains on paid administrative leave. <br> <br> Coleman said that Louisville lags behind other Southern cities in advancing race relations and offering economic opportunities for blacks. <br> <br> King was remembered with a parade and religious services in Kentucky&#39;s largest city. During a ceremony at the downtown Cathedral of the Assumption, new Louisville Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson called for steady progress to bring divergent parts of the community together. <br> <br> At the site of a century-old Confederate monument, the University of Louisville dedicated a park to celebrate the cause of freedom, from the Civil War to Monday.

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