At least one person was killed and at least one person was injured after gunfire erupted in Louisville on Saturday during a protest to demand justice for the police death of Breonna Taylor, an innocent Black woman who was killed in her own home.
While all the details were still unclear, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Saturday night that “shots were fired in Jefferson Square Park,” the downtown section of the city where the protests against Taylor’s police killing have been taking place for weeks.
However, what was immediately clear was that police should have been expecting and prepared for such a shooting at Saturday’s protest considering that on Friday the Louisville Courier-Journal reported: “Counterprotesters that include ‘armed patriot groups’ may come to downtown Louisville Saturday, according to social media posts and a Facebook event acknowledged by police.”
“Over the past few weeks, there have been several social media posts about planned protest, so it is difficult to know exactly who will show up on Saturday,” Louisville Metro Police spokeswoman Jessie Halladay wrote in a brief statement to reporters released Friday.
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