Gunfire Erupts During Live Broadcast of Breonna Taylor Protest in Louisville: WATCH

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Gunfire Erupts During Live Broadcast of Breonna Taylor Protest in Louisville: WATCH

Seven people were shot, with one critically wounded, when gunfire erupted Thursday night during a protest in Louisville over the death of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot by police after they broke down her door in March.

The Associated Press reports: Thursday night’s demonstration came as protesters across the country, in cities including Los Angeles, Denver, New York and Memphis, turned out in alliance with demonstrators in Minneapolis, where George Floyd became the latest black man to die in police custody. It also came hours after the release of a 911 call Taylor’s boyfriend made on March 13, moments after the 26-year-old emergency medical technician was shot eight times by narcotics detectives who knocked down her front door. No drugs were found in the home. Around 500 to 600 demonstrators marched through the Kentucky city’s downtown streets, the Courier Journal reported. The protests continued for more than six hours, ending in the early hours of Friday as rain poured down. At one point, protesters took turns hoisting the stone hand of King Louis XVI after it was broken off his statue outside City Hall. Shots were later heard, prompting some of the protesters to scramble for safety.

Shots fired in Louisville, KY pic.twitter.com/q25pw6QjKR

— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) May 29, 2020

WDRB-TV was broadcasting live when the shots rang out. “Shots fired. We have shots fired,” the station’s reporter can be heard saying in a video (above).

WDRB reports: One person who was shot is in “critical” condition, police said. According to a statement from Mayor Greg Fischer early Friday morning, two victims were sent to surgery. All of the shooting victims are civilians, according to LMPD, which said none of the victims were shot by officers and that it is “too early to comment on suspects.” … Shots were fired around 11:30 p.m. Thursday as hundreds of people gathered on Jefferson Street, near Metro Hall and the Hall of Justice. Before the shots were fired, protesters tried to flip an LMPD prison transport vehicle. LMPD has not said who fired the shots.

More video from the protests below.

Seeing a lot of reporters sharing a video of shots being fired in Louisville, claiming it was all a “peaceful protest.”

So here’s the full video.

They were trying to flip a police transport truck before shots were fired and we have no idea where the shots came from. pic.twitter.com/x0FJyqxm91

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 29, 2020

Riots have broken out in Louisville, KY. pic.twitter.com/gYWa9lpsWu

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 29, 2020

Here is a video of what things look like in downtown Louisville. Hundreds of protesters have the intersection between City Hall and Metro Hall blocked off. @WDRBNews pic.twitter.com/8olkKTYDaP

— Hayden Ristevski (@HaydenWDRB) May 29, 2020