Kentucky police shooting video raises questions on tactics

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The shooting of a popular Kentucky barbecue cook by law enforcement is raising new questions about use of force practices by Louisville police.

Will Pitts discusses on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, a recent police shooting in Louisville, Ky. Pitts said he witnessed the shooting and is standing near the door where David McAtee was shot by officers. McAtee was shot after police arrived to disperse a crowd gathering near his business.Police said a video showed that David McAtee fired his gun as officers approached the business firing pepper balls to clear the lot.

Louisville Police spokeswoman Jessie Halladay said Friday that inquiries about use of force are “questions we expect to be answered during our investigation into the incident.” She declined further comment. “People can see with their own eyes and make determinations with their own eyes,” the Democratic governor said at a Capitol briefing the day the video was released. “It is only one piece of a much larger _ and what will be an ongoing — investigation.”

On the use of nonlethal chemical agents, including pepper balls, Louisville police said in their policy that officers can use them to disperse “disorderly aggressive crowds and restore order during a civil disturbance incident.”

 

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Isn’t Louisville and it’s police force run by democrats?

Fake news

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How exactly does this raise questions about their tactics, he stepped outside the door and fired shots of them for no reason and they shot him...he got exactly what he asked for.

He shouldn't have been feeding rabid dogs-- they come back to bite you

No context? Did the police just walk up and shoot him? No. He fired at the police who were using non lethal weapons to control the crowd.

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NEW QUESTIONS? are you fucking joking

Good thing Gas prices are low!

Put his name in your headline. His name is David McAtee.

New questions? You keep ignoring these same old questions we’ve been asking for decades now! Why do you think ppl are rioting and protesting?!?

It's as if they're, the cops nationwide, aren't aware what we've been protesting about the last couple of centuries. 🤷 Weird...

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Where’s the video? I could not find it in your article just two pics?

Its everywhere in places not purely white. Cops have become nazis due to the fawning adulation of the mayors and council members and PTA's of every town in america, and the uncritical support FORCED upon all the kids. Like a nobody like me has to SAY this

US police murder people at an absurd rate when you compare it to other countries around the world. We have a police training problem, a racism problem, a gun problem, a violent culture problem, an accountability problem.. we are failing miserably.

His name was David McAtee Put his name in the tweet instead of barbecue cook FFS.

There does seem to be a shoot first ask questions later approach to policeing in the US

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If you ever been ostracized, shunned, excluded, rejected, ignored, avoided, shut out, despised, hated, loathed, constricted, confined, restrained, battered, bullied or beaten down by life for no good reason at all then you may have a scintilla to know-why 'I can't breathe.'

If you remove the last three words, you've reported this more accurately.

I hope to God it is.

The questions are hardly new

Show the part of the video where HE shoots 1st. Tell the f'ing Truth

Cops should be licensed just like doctors and nurses!

Yes. Questions should NEVER be feared! Question EVERYTHING! Your nearest and dearest! Yourself! ❤ Humanity!

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Bad things happen at riots

Well I'm pretty sure the questions aren't new.

Havent you heard FUCK THE POLICE

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