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Suburban Warrior

(405 posts)
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 02:36 PM Jun 2020

National Guard fired shot that killed Louisville restaurant owner

Source: Lexington Herald Leader

David McAtee, a black restaurant owner who was fatally shot amid protests last week in Louisville, was killed by a bullet fired by the Kentucky National Guard, a state official said Tuesday.

J. Michael Brown, Gov. Andy Beshear’s executive cabinet secretary, said lab tests have concluded McAtee was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest from a bullet fired by a National Guard officer.

Officials have not yet been able to determine the exact weapon the bullet was fired from. Two guardsmen and two officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department fired at least 18 bullets in McAtee’s direction that evening, Brown said.

The “fatal shot came from the National Guard,” Brown said. “We have no doubt about that.”

Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article243405831.html#storylink=cpy

Read more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article243405831.html

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National Guard fired shot that killed Louisville restaurant owner (Original Post) Suburban Warrior Jun 2020 OP
Holy Shite! This Could Be Explosive! -NT- jayfish Jun 2020 #1
Nice fucking job KY NG. How many Klansmen in your unit? Investigate, prosecute. Evolve Dammit Jun 2020 #2
Protecting and serving the shit out of you. nolabear Jun 2020 #3
Is that story behind a paywall? maxsolomon Jun 2020 #4
No Paywall For Me. jayfish Jun 2020 #5
'Tin soldiers and Nixon coming ..' (nt) stopdiggin Jun 2020 #6
The article also says he was shooting a gun himself NickB79 Jun 2020 #7
NY Times had video piecing various camera angles Angrybob2001 Jun 2020 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author Sapient Donkey Jun 2020 #16
S bobbieinok Jun 2020 #8
When they are fired upon sarisataka Jun 2020 #10
Shades of Kent State U. Nitram Jun 2020 #9
"good guy with a gun" Skittles Jun 2020 #11
If they've got the slug.... paleotn Jun 2020 #12
OMG! What is the next shoe to drop. kyburbonkid Jun 2020 #13
It says the video shows he fired at them first, but I couldn't see that. Sapient Donkey Jun 2020 #15

nolabear

(41,915 posts)
3. Protecting and serving the shit out of you.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 02:47 PM
Jun 2020

That poor, good man. I hope Mitch McConnell feels every bit of what he went through.

NickB79

(19,111 posts)
7. The article also says he was shooting a gun himself
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 04:03 PM
Jun 2020

Gunshot residue on his hands, and video to corroborate.

If so, it's a bit more complex.

Angrybob2001

(27 posts)
14. NY Times had video piecing various camera angles
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 01:32 PM
Jun 2020

My thought is is thought he was being shot at and returned fire. You can't really say what was in his mind but that's my thought.
https://nyti.ms/372yqu

Response to Angrybob2001 (Reply #14)

kyburbonkid

(251 posts)
13. OMG! What is the next shoe to drop.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 08:07 PM
Jun 2020

As hard as we try to build community, something from outside like this blows it up. I really am shocked and as a native Louisvillian, part of the 'Ville', I was stunned before this, now I just don't know what to think. Fuck all of the racist bastards to have so fucked up the ideas of this nation. When this nightmare is over, I want to see the republican thuggery walk the plank in the abyss of their own hate for this.

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
15. It says the video shows he fired at them first, but I couldn't see that.
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 02:26 PM
Jun 2020

Am I missing something?

*Oh okay, I think I see now. He must be the guy in the red shirt? It does look like he fires, and there is someone else who is also armed. Still hard to tell for sure what came first, though. The guy was for sure armed and fired, though. Although, the reactions of the national guard and police may suggest he fired first based on how they took cover. I dunno, though.

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