Bin a demonstration against racism a man was shot in the US state of Kentucky. The police said the incident occurred on Saturday evening (local time) in Jefferson Square Park in central Louisville. The first reports of the incident arrived around 9 p.m. People would still have tried to give first aid to the wounded man. However, he died at the scene. Shortly thereafter, another person was shot nearby.
How many shooters there were was unclear. The police also gave no further information on the victims.
The Mayor of Louisville, Greg Fischer, said in a tweet: “It is a tragedy that this area of the
peaceful protests is now a crime scene. “Ahead of the anti-racism rally, Fischer had asked right-wing counter-demonstrators to stay away from the protest in Jefferson Square Park. Previously, the local newspaper” Louisville Courier Journal “reported that” armed patriot groups ” plan to face the anti-racism protesters.
The park was a center for protests against the shooting of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old paramedic was killed in several shots on March 13 after drug investigators broke into her home with a warrant. The protests were further fueled by the death of Black George Floyd in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis in late May, which sparked mass protests across the country against police violence and racism.
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