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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - A group of heavily armed Black protesters marched through Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in March by police officers who burst into her apartment.
Scores of the demonstrators, carrying semi-automatic rifles and shotguns and clad in black paramilitary gear, walked in formation to a fenced off intersection where they were separated by police from a smaller group of armed counter-protesters.
The Black militia dubbed NFAC want justice for Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician who died in a hail of gunfire when drug investigators bearing a no-knock warrant entered her Louisville home four months ago.
One police officer involved in the raid was fired by the citys police department in June. Two other officers have been placed on administrative reassignment. No criminal charges have been filed against any of the three.
The leader of the NFAC group, John Grandmaster Jay Johnson, called on officials to speed up the investigation into her death and to be more transparent.
If you dont tell us nothing we going to think you aint doing nothing, Johnson said in a speech, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.
Taylors death, which returned to prominence following the May 25 suffocation in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, has become a rallying cry in nationwide protests against police brutality and racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-louisville-idUSKCN24R025
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)without a permit for anyone at least 18 years of age that is not prohibited from carrying a firearm. ...I would say this should become more of the norm in open carry states when doing "peaceful and legal protest"
will have all sorts of risk but makes a clear statement that laws apply to every one, even blacks can carry guns when its legal
Igel
(35,300 posts)Open carry is legal, it's legal.
But I don't hear the histrionics over the paramilitary appearance and how this group is setting out to openly and obviously intimidate and threaten others and should be banned.
Mut. mutandis, it's the response that's revealing and not the immense throng of 8 protestors.