While the protests inflamed the country for several days, one of them turned to the confrontation that night in Louisville, Kentucky.
A week after the death of George Floyd during an apprehension and that erupted across the United States, David McAtee, Black-American, 53 years old, was killed in the night of Monday to Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, by gunfire from police officers, reports CNN relayed by BFMTV.
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While a curfew has been established in Louisville, as in other american cities because of the riots in recent days, a demonstration degenerated into a confrontation with the forces of the order ""Of the officers and soldiers began to clear the area, and are the facts take it at a time (...) The forces of the order were then "returned fire, and we had a dead man on the scene", said Monday at a press conference, Steve Conrad, ex-chief of police of Louisville.
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The victim, a restaurant owner located in the area in question, was fatally hit by a police gunfire. As explained by the city's mayor Greg Fischer, police officers at the origin of the fire had not activated their portable cameras at the time of the facts. "This type of institutional failure will not be tolerated," assured Greg Fischer, adding that as "a result", Steve Conrad had been relieved of his duties as head of the police department of the metro Louisville," according to ABC.
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according To the new chief of police, Robert Schroeder, two other agents may also be returned. "The two officers who fired their weapons have violated our policy by not wearing or by not setting their cameras (...) It is completely unacceptable and there is no excuse... We will review the incident to determine if other violations of our policies occurred", he told ABC.
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Death of George Floyd : the facts reclassified as "murder", four police officers charged In what the events in the United States can worsen the epidemic of Covid-19? The "Message" of Johnson to Trump : racism "has no place in our societies,"The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, said Monday it has authorized police in the State to launch an investigation into the death of David McAtee and the prosecutor announced that it had entered the FBI in this case. Louisville is one of the cities where the rallies of the last few days are particularly followed. In march, Breonna Taylor, a ambulance black 26-year-old, was killed by shooting of police officers in his apartment. The agents were looking for a suspect who lived in the building and that was already held.
Date Of Update: 04 June 2020, 02:58
