Gun Battle on the Streets of Louisville, Military and Cops Return Fire, Killing One

This was bound to happen, now we have our first.

AP:

Police officers and National Guard soldiers enforcing a curfew in Louisville killed a man early Monday when they returned fire after someone in a large group fired at them first, the city’s police chief said.A shocked witness said the group had nothing to do with the protests, adding he never “thought I would experience that here in America.”

Police Chief Steve Conrad confirmed the shooting happened around 12:15 a.m. outside a food market on West Broadway, where police and the National Guard had been called to break up a large group of people gathering in defiance of the city’s curfew.

Someone fired a shot at them and both soldiers and officers returned fire, the chief said. It was unclear if the person killed is the one who fired at the law enforcers. Several “persons of interest” were being interviewed, he said.

News outlets showed video taken by someone in a car parked at a gas station. It recorded the sound of bullets being fired as groups of police and national guard soldiers crouched behind cars.

You can say “good, he deserved it.”

And you would maybe be right.

I don’t know if you would be right, because this looks like an older jogger who might not have been doing anything.

Sure, maybe you would be right.

But there are going to be many shootings in the future, and none of them will be investigated or explained.

The police state is going to be able to kill people with impunity.

That really isn’t a very good thing at all.