{"id":100500,"date":"2020-06-04T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100500"},"modified":"2020-06-04T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T19:22:53","slug":"louisville-police-officers-walk-out-on-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100500","title":{"rendered":"Louisville Police Officers Walk Out on Mayor."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100501 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cops-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cops-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cops-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cops-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cops.jpg 931w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This just in.<\/p>\n<h3>A form of protest claiming disrespect.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Morgan Phillips<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dozens of police officers in Louisville, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/kentucky\">Ky.<\/a> reportedly walked out on the city&#8217;s Democratic mayor, Greg Fischer, as a form of protest, as the Fraternal Order of Police president explained that the officers felt \u201cdisrespected\u201d as they struggle to keep the peace after more than a week of fiery protests.<\/p>\n<p>Video obtained by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/2020\/06\/03\/breonna-taylor-protests-police-officers-walk-out-louisville-mayor\/3136221001\/\">Courier- Journal<\/a> shows Fischer standing in the middle of the room at a roll call before the start of a 12-hour shift, as streams of Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers and detectives silently file out.<\/p>\n<p>FOP President Ryan Nichols, who was not present, said the move was an unplanned reaction to Fischer\u2019s address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They feel completely unsupported and disrespected by this administration,&#8221; Nichols said. &#8220;They feel whatever he was going to say would have been nothing more than lip service, and he does not care about them at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between protesters and police have reached a high in the city where Breonna Taylor, an unarmed black woman, was shot and killed in her home on March 13.<\/p>\n<p>Police have deployed pepper bullets and tear gas to disperse demonstrations. They say it was in response to protesters throwing bricks, fireworks, leaf blowers and Molotov cocktails at them.<\/p>\n<p>One man, David McAtee, was killed by police as a result of the unrest, though officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/louisville-police-surveillance-footage-shows-man-fired-weapon-before-being-shot\">released a video<\/a> they say proves he fired the first shot. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/louisville-protest-of-breonna-taylor-case-leaves-at-least-7-shot-1-critically\">At least seven<\/a> were shot in one night of protests in Louisville last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/louisville-police-officers-walk-out-on-mayor-as-form-of-protest-claiming-disrespect\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in. A form of protest claiming disrespect. By Morgan Phillips Dozens of police officers &hellip; <a title=\"Louisville Police Officers Walk Out on Mayor.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100500\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Louisville Police Officers Walk Out on Mayor.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,185,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100502,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100500\/revisions\/100502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}