A man was fatally wounded by a gunshot Saturday night during a demonstration against racism under the banner “Black Lives Matter” in Louisville, in the center of the United States, where the death in March of a black woman, killed by the police in his apartment in March had provoked intense emotion.
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The death of Breonna Taylor was followed by numerous demonstrations against police violence, which then took on an unprecedented scale with the death of George Floyd, African American suffocated by white police the 25 from my Minnesota team.
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, the city’s mayor, Greg Fischer, asked the counter-demonstrators to stay away from the park. The Louisville Courier Journal had indeed revealed that armed patriotic groups
intended to confront the demonstrators.
Events ” Black Lives Matter 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 wanted poster 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.
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