Gunshots erupted during a planned protest in Louisville, Ky., Saturday and three members of the heavily armed militia group, the “Not F---ing Around Coalition” (NFAC), were injured by shots fired from one of their own member's guns, police told Fox News.
The shooting took place near Baxter Square Park around 1 p.m. and all of the victims were transported to the University of Louisville Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the Louisville Metro Police Department told Fox News.
One of the members of the NFAC spoke to throngs of protesters and said “we had a little accident, it happens,” the reporter said. Members of a protestor group affiliated with NFAC, most carrying firearms, gather to march on July 25, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. The group is marching in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor. daily since the death of Taylor in March faced off with NFAC militants, saying they don't agree with their tactics of displaying guns and weaponry.
on Springfield Drive, firing off more than 20 rounds, as they were conducting a narcotics investigation on March 13One of the three officers involved in the deadly instance was fired from the department last month, and two other officers have been placed on administrative leave.
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