Louisville police and National Guardsmen fired on a crowd on Monday, killing 53-year-old David McAtee. Here's what we know
David McAtee. Photo: Walt and Marshae Smith Just after midnight on June 1, police in Louisville, Kentucky, shot David McAtee while he stood in a “large crowd” gathered outside a convenience store in the city’s West End. Officers with the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department and the National Guard claimed they had been fired upon and said they were “returning fire” into the group of civilians, killing McAtee, a 53-year-old black man.
McAtee’s family says he was shot while trying to protect his niece. According to Louisville NBC affiliate WAVE-3 News, the group assembled near McAtee’s restaurant, YaYa’s BBQ, was there for a standing weekend gathering, where McAtee provides food. According to the outlet, LMPD and National Guard officers said they were responding to reports of a crowd around 12:15 a.m., in violation of the city’s “dusk to dawn” curfew. “Witnesses said soldiers boxed them in and people panicked,” WAVE-3 reports.
“It’s very clear that many people do not trust the police,” Conrad reportedly said at a news conference. “That is an issue we’re going to work on and work through.” Still, he did not take any questions. Still, Beshear promised investigations into McAtee’s death would not take months to deliver results, as Taylor’s has. “The lack of direct body camera footage is unacceptable, and I think we all feel that way,” he said, according to WHAS-11 News.
On Tuesday, multiple news outlets reported that Crews had mocked a peaceful protester on her Facebook page a few days before the fatal shooting, posting a photo of a female demonstrator offering her a flower, with the caption, “I hope the pepper balls that she got lit up with a little later on hurt.”
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