A man was fatally injured on Saturday night during a demonstration against racism under the banner “Black Lives Matter” in Louisville, in the center of the United States.
Local Louisville police, alerted by a call, said they had found a man seriously injured by gunshot in Jefferson Square Park, where the protest was taking place. “Police tried to save him, but were unsuccessful“Police said on Twitter.
Shortly afterwards, another person was shot in front of the park. Police said they did not know if there was a single shooter or two, and gave no details on the victims. Earlier in the evening, city mayor Greg Fischer asked the protesters to stay away from the park. The Louisville Courier Journal had indeed revealed that “armed patriotic groups” intended to confront the demonstrators.
The Black Lives Matter events are particularly lively in Louisville, since the death of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old nurse was at home with her partner when three police officers knocked on her door without warning. The officers, equipped with a search warrant, were acting on an erroneous search notification concerning a suspect who no longer lived in the building and who was already detained. They hit the young woman with at least eight bullets.
The death of this black caregiver had been followed numerous demonstrations against police violence, which then took on an unprecedented scale with the death of George Floyd, an African American asphyxiated by a white police officer on May 25.
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