[Courier-Journal] Downtown Louisville is again the site of protests Saturday as armed militia groups and Black Lives Matter protesters face one another on opposite sides of barricades set up by Louisville Metro Police Department officers.
The NFAC, a Black militia that stands for "Not F**king Around Coalition," announced earlier in the week the group would be coming to Louisville to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot by police.
In response to the NFAC's announcement, the Three Percenters,
| ... also, for some reason, sometimes written as III%ers, they are an anti-government movement. Oddly enough, back in 2014 a group of that name showed up in one of Chris Covert’s This Week In Guns reports, where he described them as one of the responsible Texas militias, akin to the Oath Keepers, who were looking into patrolling the border against illegals... |
a far-right militia group, announced later in the week that it will have "boots on the ground" in Louisville.
Both fulfilled their promise as a few hundred people
| Golly — a few hundred between them? |
are toting guns
| ...but they do have guns, not merely frozen water bottles, concrete milkshakes, molotov cocktails, heavy duty fireworks, sharpened metal sign holders and large plywood signs, bike locks, and skateboards... |
and facing off at Jefferson Street on Saturday morning, where LMPD is in full riot gear. |