1. Curfew has just been announced in Louisville. Alert came screaming across my phone. A few dozen protestors have taken refuge inside a church. Streets are surrounded by police. Demonstrators rolled a dump truck in front of church:
2. Last night, two officers were shot by a protestor, one in stomach, one in thigh. News outlet covered the shooting. Perhaps for that reason mood tonight is different. Last night media was welcomed inside church. Tonight reporters told “you’re telling the wrong narrative”
3. Reporters are scattered across parking lot and side streets while protestors with bullhorns are on First Unitarian church property, where church leaders are offering water and food. Helicopter whirring overhead. Assembly has been declared unlawful by Louisville police.
4. Choppers still overhead, but tone is more relaxed almost 1 hour past curfew. Organizers with bullhorns telling demonstrators to get fully on church property, believing that church is private property and therefore they won’t get arrested. Police all around perimeter:
5. It’s almost two hours past curfew, crowd is down to a few dozen people. They’re on a promontory on church property chanting Breonna Taylor’s name above a small group of police officers. Officers allowing people to leave who want to go. Mellow night compared to yesterday
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