This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.
As we reported last night, protesters hit the streets in Louisville, NYC, LA, Denver, Oakland, Washington DC, and other cities across the US after a Kentucky grand jury decided that no officers would be charged in the killing of Breonna Taylor, a tragic accident that was the result of officers serving a “no-knock” warrant.
In Louisville, the city where Taylor was shot and killed, 2 police were shot as gunfire broke out downtown after hundreds “peacefully” marched earlier in the evening. But as has become distressingly familiar, the real hard-core agitators came out after dark. A suspect in the shooting of the two officers was taken into custody shortly after, but he wasn’t the only “protester” who was packing heat at the “non-violent demonstration.”
LOUISVILLE: a rioter is detainee by police for brandishing a firearm
Reporter @livesmattershow is on the scene now, says reporters are getting arrested
— ELIJAH (@ElijahSchaffer) September 24, 2020
Amazingly, left-leaning media outlets had the gall to frame the shooting of two police as an “inevitable”, while framing the events of last night in distorted terms that served to support their narrative of a corrupt justice system absolving three murderers, instead of reporting the facts: that a jury of their peers – not some unassailable magistrate – decided on the indictments for the three officers.
The Daily Beast reported that none of the officers were charged for Breonna Taylor’s killing. While that’s technically true – officer Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing into a nearby occupied apartment, not for the shots that killed Taylor, which were fired by a colleague – the result is misleading, and intentionally so, we suspect.
But we digress. Circling back to the events of Wednesday night, the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department – better known as the LMPD – aggressively enforced curfew violations after the shooting. Several reporters – including two journalists for the Daily Caller – were arrested during the sweep, and despite protests from their editors, were charged with breaking curfew and attending an “unlawful” assembly. It’s believed that dozens of protesters and reporters were taken into custody during the sweep of Jefferson Square, which has served as the base for BLM protesters who have been out demonstrating every night for the past 118 days.
A mass arrest is underway near Jefferson Square, even press detained for this one. Unclear how many will be taken into custody #Louisville #LouisvilleProtests #BreonnaTaylor
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 24, 2020
Narrowly avoided arrest. Tremendously intense night in Louisville.
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 24, 2020
Multiple members of the press were arrested tonight and are facing charges, along with an even larger number of protesters facing a multitude of charges. Chaotic night here in Kentucky. #Louisville #LouisvilleProtests
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 24, 2020
As far as violence goes, this video has gone viral after being shared by several mainstream media outlets.
Molotov cocktail thrown during Breonna Taylor march as protesters clash with authorities in Portland, Oregon. https://t.co/JBtqGXl0kS pic.twitter.com/kedtV1wU81
— ABC News (@ABC) September 24, 2020
The DC reporters arrested included Jorge Ventura and Shelby Talcott.
Our reporters @ShelbyTalcott and @VenturaReport are being detained by @LMPD as law enforcement corrals protesters en masse in Louisville https://t.co/kQ1yAd3gfg
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 24, 2020
Current situation. #Louisville pic.twitter.com/jVH4xn4bZw
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) September 24, 2020
When editors reached out, the department refused to budge.
I’ve now notified @LMPD that both @shelbytalcott and @VenturaReport were reporting for an accredited media outlet and were operating in the capacity of press. My expectation is that they will be swiftly released. https://t.co/BBa1b8yF1W
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 24, 2020
Update: The Louisville doc tells me @ShelbyTalcott and @VenturaReport will be processed and charged like everyone else, despite my best efforts to alert official channels that they were operating in the capacity of press at a live news event. @LMPD
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 24, 2020
Another update: @LMPD tells me @ShelbyTalcott and @JorgeVentura05 will be charged with two misdemeanors related to breaking curfew & unlawful assembly for their alleged failure to comply with police orders to disperse and for press to relegate themselves to an “observation area”
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 24, 2020
Sorry @JorgeVentura05 is not the right guy. I meant @VenturaReport
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 24, 2020
Sorry @JorgeVentura05 is not the right guy. I meant @VenturaReport
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 24, 2020
Circling back to the wounded officers, Interim LMPD chief Robert Schroeder confirmed the two officers had been shot and sustained life-threatened injuries, and that a suspect was in custody. One of the officers was shot in the abdomen, while the the other was shot in the thigh.
“I am very concerned about the safety of our officers,” Schroeder said. “Obviously we’ve had two officers shot tonight, and that is very serious. … I think the safety of our officers and the community we serve is of the utmost importance,” Schroeder said, according to the Courier-Journal.
As of 11 pm local time on Thursday, police had arrested 46 people, which includes those arrested in the sweep of Jefferson Square, which reportedly happened around 8 pm.
Independent video journalist Brendan Gutenschwager narrowly avoided arrest last night. Afterward, he chronicled the eerily silent streets and surveyed the damage.
Within 12 hours of the Breonna Taylor announcement
– Miles of marches through Louisville
– Looting and vandalism in various parts of the city
– Fires lit downtown
– Live ammunition fired off
– 2 officers shot and taken to the hospital
– Mass arrests
This city is on edge.— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 24, 2020
With a severe crackdown on the curfew, things are ‘calm’ here in Louisville for the night. Simultaneously, the Pacific coast is going off right now in Portland and Seattle. Hearing retroactively about DC, Chicago and elsewhere. Unrest across America’s cities tonight.
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 24, 2020
The scene along Main Street in downtown Louisville, desolate here tonight as the curfew and police lockdown of the area are underway #Louisville #LouisvilleProtests #BreonnaTaylor pic.twitter.com/d82G6O2itq
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 24, 2020
Thousands gathered across NYC and LA, and hundreds more in Portland, Chicago, Atlanta, and other cities around the country as others marched “in solidarity”.
Expect the unrest to continue Thursday, as it has for nearly 120 days.
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Here is Andre Vltchek reporting a tragc tail of utter despair and hopelessness traveling around the world in 8 days at the height of the lockdown hysteria over the coronavirus in a world that has totalyy ceased functioning as a result of it clashing with health problems common to world travelers, in Andre’s case, parasitic infection contracted in Borneo. This was obviously far more serious than an eye infection and Andre also was suffering diabetic attacks and was telling everyone that he was sick. He chose not to see a doctor. I believe that he suspected that he was targeted for murder by the medical mafia, otherwise, he probably would have seen a physician. Andre was writing a book about Borneo. 21stCenturyWire has not commented on or reported on Andre Vltchek’s death. Andre Vltchek was a frequent contributor to 21stCenturyWire and the Sunday radio show by Patrick Henningsen. They may be too grief stricken to comment, or might be investigating.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/03/22/my-eight-day-journey-around-the-planet-with-covid-19-on-my-tail/
I believe that Andre Vltchek died from Gnathostomiasis and diabetic complications:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/998278-overview
Andrea Iravani
Here is Andre Vltchek reporting a tragc tail of utter despair and hopelessness traveling around the world in 8 days at the height of the lockdown hysteria over the coronavirus in a world that has totally ceased functioning as a result of it clashing with health problems common to world travelers, in Andre’s case, parasitic infection contracted in Borneo. This was obviously far more serious than an eye infection and Andre also was suffering diabetic attacks and was telling everyone that he was sick. He chose not to see a doctor. I believe that he suspected that he was targeted for murder by the medical mafia, otherwise, he probably would have seen a physician. Andre was writing a book about Borneo. 21stCenturyWire has not commented on or reported on Andre Vltchek’s death. Andre Vltchek was a frequent contributor to 21stCenturyWire and the Sunday radio show by Patrick Henningsen. They may be too grief stricken to comment, or might be investigating.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/03/22/my-eight-day-journey-around-the-planet-with-covid-19-on-my-tail/
An exerpt from Andre Vltcheck on Borneo:
“Jokowi says he loves business, and he is enamored with the U.S. president Donald Trump. He can hardly believe that from a furniture seller he has gone ‘so far’, meeting the most notorious leaders of the West, shaking their hands, telling them how much they are wanted in Indonesia.” – Andre Vltcheck
“He talks big. He shuts up his critics. Journalists and activists are disappearing, or outrightly getting murdered. Laws muzzling any criticism are being introduced, gradually and consistently. Nobody dares to guess what may come next. New Order (“Ode Baru”) – the fascist pro-business regime of General Suharto, is being re-introduced.
In this political climate; in a climate of fear, intimidation and corruption, the new capital city of Indonesia is expected to rise.”- Andre Vltcheck
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/04/14/new-indonesian-capital-in-borneo-from-rural-misery-to-grody-dreams-of-urban-glory/
I believe that Andre Vltchek died from Gnathostomiasis and diabetic complications, whether it was a deliberate assassination is a mystery unlikely to be solved.
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/998278-overview
Andrea Iravani
The insanity of Donald Trump is proven through his kamakazi double standard of prosecuting Assange who destroyed the candidacy of his political opponent with documents that belonged in the public domain since they were reflective of the day to day operations of the State Department, and did nothing about the Washington Free Beacon and Christopher Steele, the RNC, and DNC all responsible for the fabricated Steele dossier authored by Steele and contracted by The Washington Free Beacon, the RNC and the DNC.
Trump derangement syndrome!
“Violence is inevitable” stated by the Main Stream Media (MSM) that lost their credibility long ago. MSM propaganda has two goals: 1) to help their Demonrat colleagues acquire more power, and 2) to increase their market share by convincing folks of an alternate reality that does NOT exist.
DEMONRATS continue to condone the burning down of our society. Don’t be surprized by a severe reaction.
Work up the uppty black thugs and rich, spoiled, entitled white children enough and… what do you expect?
MSM has blood on hits hands!
Remember they are not protesters. They are violent communist rioters. Breonna Taylor was working for a drug gang. The police raided her residence because she was holding thousands of dollars in drug proceeds used to bail out drug dealers who got arrested. The police did knock and announce themselves. Her boyfriend promptly used her as a shield and opened fire on the police first. And now you know the rest of the story. Breonna made bad life decisions. The wages of sin are death. I read that somewhere.
The obvious cannot be denied, which is that the prisms that both Andre Vltchek and Kevin Barrett view the world through have distorted reality in effect blinding them to the truth, in a twist of irony.
Andre Vltchek believed that all world problems could be attributed to capitalism, and Kevin Barrett believes that all world problems are attributed to Zionism, the truth is that all world problems are attributed to corruption, and if there was no corruption, there would not be Zionism in the Middle East. or anywhere else.
Andre Vltchek sought political assylum in the U.S. after the fall of the USSR and it was within years after that that in your face blatant corruption became official U.S. policy once again, which had subsided for a very brief period after WW2. Even though there was still systemic corruption, it was hidden from the public and the public and press at one time reacted with outrage when corruption was exposed as they did during the McCarthy hearings, Watergate, and The Pentagon Papers.
Now, the reverse is occuring, and the majority of the public is outraged BECAUSE corruption is exposed. They are not outraged at the corruption, but at the exposure of corruption, as is the case with Assange, Snowden, as well as other whistleblowers. The majority of Americans are now corrupt.
Andrea Iravani
wrong wrong wrong
MSM is subservient to silicon valley and
the tech industry is behind this 100%
Teddy Roosevelt once said “that the men with the muck rakes are often indispensable to the well being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.”
My guess is that Muckraker Millie(Weaver) knows not of Mr.Roosevelts’ quote….nor arbitrarily gives a flying fat rats ass…
the tech weasels are starting to come clean but only because they know a prison environment isn’t conducive to the lifestyle they’ve grown accustom to.
YES I STAND BY MY ORIGINAL SHTFPLAN comment that rogue operators in the tech industry were triggering school shooters in retaliation for their hatred of the patriot movement.
Said trigger mechanisms were then deleted and made invisible to FBI etc…
here’s a sliver of light upon how it all works ….if you can stomach looking at these fkrs.
https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224?preventIntent=true
hey I don’t have Netflix either
had to walk nearly a mile down the road to watch it at a friends house.
hoping the Indictments come soon…
watch this documentary
I am a Kentucky man and I did not know until last night that a policeman was wounded in the no knock raid. Any fool that shoots at police and wounds one should expect return fire. There are life lessons here. Young women should find the very finest men to date. If the best they can do is a drug dealer expect to get involved with the police. Low IQ has a lot to do with what we see playing out in Louisville. Black people or white people does not matter, the rule of law makes us all equal. I think the grand jury did right. Do you see the Fourth Turning coming?
Get out the big red fire trucks and spray down those dirty smelly rioters while soaking there fireworks. They would be so beat by the end of their shift trying to gain yards fighting that high pressure water. I say bring out all those pumpers and spray the living shit out of those discusting shit balls…
The murder of Breonna Taylor was a “tragic accident”? Sounds like Trump style double-speak.
If I was the state-provided, legal defense, I would have to say that I don’t even like the hominid in question. I can think of no socially redeeming value.
You choked him out, for selling loose cigarettes, or performed an extrajudicial, capital punishment, at the wrong house.
The Leninist left and Stalinist right are both kinds of violent communists.
In Demonrat states & cities, police are demeaned, their tools are removed, then they are constantly told to stand down. The logical and inevitable result of those police restrictions is more crime. The DEMONRATS tell us to ignore things we see like burning riots & attacks on our fellow Americans – but we should believe the lying media that they are PEACEFUL PROTESTS. Their delusions are not mine – I will believe my own observations.