A peaceful and growing group is moving up Bardstown Road, protesting for #BreonnaTaylor.

"No lives matter till #BlackLivesMatter "
The group is relatively diverse, and almost everyone is in all black.

"We wouldn't be here if we didn't give a fuck. We all give a fuck!" A protestor screams.
A line of police are on the side of the group closer to Grinstead Dr. and are blocking traffic.

Traffic is still coming from the other side but this is the very liberal Highlands and folks are turning around without issue.
Protestors heading down Bardstown, with police keeping plenty of space.

One of the protestors is joking with one officer: "I like him!"
"Hands up, don't shoot!"

Police stepped aside as protestors surrounded them.
One of the police officers is a Black woman.

One protestor's response:
"Peaceful protest!" chants as a second line of police arrives and protestors get closer. #BreonnaTaylor #Louisville
#Louisville, Ky. 7:58 p.m.
"I can't breathe."
Looks like the protestors are heading back towards Grinstead.

Police lined up at Lucia, a block from Mid City Mall. A line of predominantly white protestors stays with them. #Louisville
It is 8:30 p.m. on a Saturday night on Bardstown Road, one of #Louisville's top dining corridors.

Here's a look at one of its busiest intersections.
The protest is moving through one of the tree-lined streets off Bardstown.

The area is relatively white and wealthy. Homeowners are coming outside, a few with fists in the air in support.
Back where they started at Broadway and Baxter. I don't see any police.

The peace of this protest versus the unrest of last night is striking.
Saying the National Guard is blocks away and curfew is now, a leader says, "Go home."

Crowd begins to leave as church bells ring for 9 o'clock.

"We'll be back tomorrow," one protestor says.

"Damn right we will," another responds.
Cars coming from Broadway, maybe from downtown protests, getting loud as protestors head down Bardstown.
The protestors got to Grinstead before heading back. Police appear to be stationed a block or two away.

"They're waiting for us!"

#Louisvilleprotest
Cheers at Bardstown and Baxter as armored vehicles leave.

It is now just police versus maybe 50 protestors.

It is peaceful compared to downtown, where tear gas is being deployed and people arrested.

#louisville
Two white people are yelling off the side of the protest.

One said the n-word. At a protest centered on the police's treatment of black people.

The other person called him out.

#Louisville
Still no pepper balls, flash bangs, tear gas in the Highlands.

Curfew was about 80 minutes ago but it hasn't been enforced.

Police are being asked to step back by police.
#Louisville, Ky. 10:23 p.m.
Meanwhile, Mayor Greg Fischer to reporters: "We changed tactics today after last night's noticeably more anarchic activity."

Thanks those who protested peacefully today, acknowledging the frustration and anger of protestors.
Something just got fired in the Highlands. I only heard one pop and saw folks running.
It sounds like pepper balls were fired at Bardstown and Highland. One man got hit and is bleeding. A woman with him has multiple welts.
The armored trucks are back.

Someone threw a water bottle at police, protestors say.

Police open fired with pepper balls.

Just now several flash bangs, loads of pepper spray from police.

Things are escalating in the Highlands.
More police just arrived to block off traffic.

Armored trucks were already blocking the other direction.

Avoid Bardstown and Highland.
Nothing has been fired since for about 10 minutes here in the Highlands at a protest over #policebrutality.

Protestors are now across the street from police.
LMPD now issuing a dispersal request.

Protestors who don't leave can be arrested.

No one is leaving.
The police said the request multiple times but it was still super hard to hear and understand.

They said they may use chemical agents if protestors don't disperse.

TEAR GAS.
Highlands in #Louisville.

Fireworks were set off in the middle of the intersection immediately after this.
OK, not thinking it was tear gas anymore. Definitely a lot of smoke, but I'm not feeling anything and am not struggling to breathe.

It worked, though - a lot of protestors ran.
Protestors started coming back towards the intersection with metal sheets as protection.

Police moved in, with I believe pepper balls. They just threw a purple smoke grenade of some kind.
We're in an odd set up.

Police blocking the intersection.

Protestors further down Highland Ave.

Reporters and a handful of onlookers on Baxter.
And police just asked reporters to move because we were "in the line of fire."

For the onlookers at O'Sheas. And maybe four protestors half a block away.

But at least they are trying to not have a repeat of shooting at reporters?
Police are now moving down Bardstown Rd.

And down Highland.

I've lost all sight of protestors.

This is my sight.
A Black man skateboarded down a deserted street.

Police yelled. His hands went up as a spotlight went on him.

Can I grab my board? He asked.
Armored trucks are slowly moving out, it seems.

One left. One is turning around.

Police have largely retreated back into the intersection.

Several are taking a water break. Someone is handing out snacks!
Protestors seem to be gone or hiding in the depths of the Highlands.
Remember the white guy who said the n-word at a protest on race relations?

He is now in a screaming match with a handful of protestors about something he said.

Police broke it up.
Crowd and police in the Highlands are gone.

A few protestors are waiting for rides and such.

A truck came in and turned around, backing up onto a curb to do so -- inches from protestors.
The truck driver stopped and is confronting the protestors after they called him out for almost hitting someone.

Protestors, maybe a dozen of them, talked him down and got him back in his car.
Highland Ave. smells of tear gas residue.

These, which look like rubber bullets, scatter the ground.

I thought LMPD didn't use rubber bullets?
Talked to a few protestors after things calmed.

Most have protested before, but never like this.

They want no-knock warrants prohibited in #Louisville and charges for the police who shot #BreonnaTaylor.

They don't believe LMPD is hearing them.

They won't stop until they do.
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