#david mcatee

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They said they were "returning gun fire", which has been met with much scrutiny and justifiable suspicion.

His name was David McAtee

The gathering was unrelated to the protests, it was a weekly party that had been happening for a while. Yes it "broke curfew" but they must've figured that they were far enough away from it all to be safe.

This man served cops for free at his restaurant as a policy

Black Lives Matter Protest

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

June 7th, 2020

Don’t know what Juneteenth is? Understandable! I had no idea what it was until a few days ago, my mom is super happy because she gets a day off, she thought that it was day Slaves were freed.

And she was partially correct, actually it’s in celebration of a federal order given by this guy with an epic beard.

This is Major General George Granger, an Army Officer and Union general who is most well known for his work during the Battle of Chickamauga, it was the first major conflict of the war fought in Georgia, sadly, the Confederates won the first battle, but as we all know, they lost the war, Granger was commanding the reserves and during the second day of battle he reinforced the struggling XIV Corps on Snodgrass Hill against the confederates, he wasn’t ordered to, he determined that they couldn’t hold back the enemy force by themselves, so he sent two brigades under his command to assist the XIV Corps, this action kept the confederates back until dark, which then allowed Federal forces to retreat in good order helping Major General George H Thomas earn his nickname, the “Rock of Chickamauge”, which THEN led to a later battle where Thomas earned his next nickname, “Sledge of Nashville” in the Battle of Nashville where he fought the Army of Nashville, effectively deafeating them due to a rather embarrassing strategical error made by General John Bell Hood, who wasn’t even that good of a General, he seemed to favor fighting his enemy head on, which resulted in the death of about 23.500 of his 38.000 troops. (I love reading about warfare, many of my family members are military, sue me...besides, we don’t talk about Union soldiers enough in my opinion, you always hear the orchestra of whining whenever a bunch of people yank down a confederate soldier statue, but you never hear people talk about Union soldiers that much.)

Anywaaaay! Now that I’ve gotten through all the boring stuff, Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, the civil war has been effectively over since April, since the defeat of the Confederate states, and the Emancipation Proclamation had formally freed slaves two and a half years earlier, Texas was extremely remote and doing it’s best to hold onto their own slaves, there was also an extremely low presence of Union Soldiers, the enforcement of the proclamation was slow and inconsistent, Major General Granger was assigned to a Command in Texas on June 19th, 1865, Yes, Major General Granger, on his first day of work at his new post, declared that, Yes, as a member of the Union, you WILL follow the Emancipation Proclamation, you WILL free your slaves from the chains of bondage, and that, Yes, the former slaves have the same absolute rights of equality and property as everyone else.

TL:DR: Major General Granger shows up to command the district of Texas, and on his first day, he informs the ENTIRE state of Texas that they have to follow the law, because this is a country of freemen and all men are equal under the constitution of the United States, and it truly, honestly marked the end of legal slavery, the day was then celebrated year after year in Texas, known sometimes as Jubilee Day, Liberation Day and Emancipation Day.

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.