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03 June ♥ 294 manesguerin (manesguerin)

manesguerin:

for context in the shooting of david mcatee in louisville, kentucky in the early morning of june 1, 2020. the starting point of this (walking) map is 6th and jefferson. this is where the protests took place - by the courthouse, by corrections. the red destination marker is 26th and broadway where david mcatee was murdered by lmpd and his body was left in the street for upward of twelve hours. of course none of the officers had body cameras on to show their alleged series of events.

david mcatee died protecting his niece. he died in a predominantly black neighborhood twenty blocks to the west of where the protests were happening. about four blocks south and twenty blocks to the west. you’re likely not from louisville and you don’t know our geography. the west end is a predominantly black area. twenty-sixth is pretty deep into the west end. the protests were happening at our courthouse downtown at sixth and jefferson. there was some movement downtown between first and sixth and broadway.

they weren’t dispersing crowds from the protests.

they were twenty blocks to the west.

you want to know what’s twenty blocks to the east? white neighborhoods, including (give or take a few blocks) the highlands where they WERE protesting. there was a police and national guard presence there too. no one got killed. no shots were fired.

say his name. remember where he was murdered in context to where the protests were. don’t let anyone say this was justice or that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, because he was in HIS neighborhood and his crime? talking to his friends after curfew in a black neighborhood.

fuck lmpd.

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