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Kentucky Energy & Environment Reporter @WFPLNews. @SPJlouisville board. Mass shooting survivor. https://t.co/A1rdtrPGbn

Sep 23, 2020, 12 tweets

Good morning from downtown Louisville. Here’s the view from one of the few entrances to downtown. Police do not appear to be stopping and talking to drivers this morning. Also there was some confusion yesterday, police are not asking for ID to come downtown.

Here’s what Fourth Street in downtown Louisville looks like ahead of AG Daniel Cameron’s decision in the Breonna Taylor case.

It is so quiet out here in downtown this morning. Eerie. It’s wild. Here I am standing in the middle of Fifth Street with not a car in sight.

Here’s a view of the federal courthouse on Broadway this morning, you can see the flag at half mast for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose body is lying in repose at the Supreme Court today.

Here’s the view from Chestnut, one of the few streets LMPD is allowing traffic to pass through.

And here’s Jefferson Square Park this morning.

Small group of police hanging out outside Metro Corrections.

Here’s the Breonna Taylor memorial in Louisville today ahead of an expected decision from Kentucky AG on the fate of the officers who shot and killed Taylor.

A lot more cameras out here this morning.

Here’s the scene as of 10:15 am

And here’s Metro Safe, which my understanding is the home base for emergency operations

Fourth Street Live this morning as CBS gears up for a live shot.

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