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FISCHER’S POLICE SOW CHAOS By Aaron Yarmuth | ayarmuth@leoweekly.com MAYOR GREG FISCHER remains inexplicably bound to antiquated, ineffective police procedures that create more chaos than bring resolution. He continues to set up the police and the protesters for confrontation. He has proven unable to learn from the mistakes of the past. Here is Fischer’s statement regarding peaceful marchers who were met by Louisville Metro Police wielding batons: “I appreciate, though, that the batons prompted feelings of fear and mistrust among many of the marchers, their families and friends, as well as some who saw the images later. That’s a reality we cannot ignore. And that’s why I asked the Chief to review how we should best handle incidents like this should they happen in the future.” He said that on Aug.15, 2017 after marches here responded to the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Three years later, last Friday, peaceful marchers were once again stymied on Main
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Street by baton-wielding riot police, this time on Main Street. In a few minutes, flash bangs sent most of the crowd running in hysterics. It was all on TV, the sun was still out, and it was two hours before the citywide curfew went into effect. Fischer had already declared a state of emergency, formally recognizing that this was an extraordinary time. In addition to the blocks of police-barricaded streets downtown, it’s fair to say that some consideration should have been afforded the protesters occupying a downtown thoroughfare. There was no vandalism, no rioting. It was orderly… until the police boxed the marchers into a corner. Why stop the peaceful march at all? Why the state of emergency? Why the curfew? “Our goal is ensuring space and opportunity for potential protesters to gather and express their First Amendment rights,” Mayor Fischer said on Sept. 23, explaining
the curfew he ordered. “At the same time, we are preparing for any eventuality to keep everyone safe.” Fischer had already forgotten the last curfew he imposed on the city? It wasn’t three months earlier, another curfew led The Kentucky National Guard to respond to a crowd gathered around YaYa’s BBQ at the corner of 26th and Broadway, where they shot and killed David McAtee. They never should have been there, because there never should have been a curfew. More recently, police claimed they were at McAtee’s because of “intelligence” about protesters regrouping, reversing a monthslong narrative about the curfew. Still, whether it’s a curfew or sending law enforcement out to perform predictivepolicing –– as though they had the superpowers of precogs from the movie “Minority Report” –– Fischer should know by now that his force isn’t capable of not screwing up. The same officers enforcing the curfew or maintaining peace will include the same officer who shot a reporter with a pepper ball on live TV in the spring; and the officer who eagerly sought permission to arrest protesters taking shelter in the First Unitarian Church; and possibly the officer who bumped a marcher with their squad car
during the march in 2017. It wasn’t the brute force from police that brought peace during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and ‘60s. It was the protesters, martyrs and heroes peacefully resisting authority who advanced equality and brought relative peace — they did it in spite of the hoses, dogs and batons. In Louisville, 2020, the batons are back, along with enhanced riot gear and police tanks. Mayor Fischer is not a racist person, but he is lost. He needs to find and lead a new approach –– not just to protests, but to policing in Louisville. He can start by welcoming demonstrators to the streets with the presumption of innocence and nonviolence. Fischer has apologized for mistakes he’s made, as recently as a few weeks ago, “I know that I’ve made mistakes and I’ve disappointed some. I am deeply sorry for that, and most importantly, I am sorry for the tragic death of Breonna Taylor,” he said after the Metro Council reprimanded him with a vote of no-confidence. If he can learn from the mistakes of the past, apologize and set the police and the city on a new path, this city will show him compassion and history will forgive him. •
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By Shauntrice Martin | leo@leoweekly.com crime Let’s go ahead and put this out there: Kenneth Walker deserves every dime he asked for in this lawsuit. Thank God he lived to tell his story. This man has been demonized by white supremacists and police apologists. Anyone who has ever listened to that heartbreaking 911 call he made while cops let Breonna bleed to death knows that he did everything he could to protect a Black woman that night. Black women need healing in this moment. Black women need grace in this moment. We need more people like Kenneth Walker in positions of power 1. Greg Fischer doesn’t care about Black instead of men like Daniel Cameron. If people anyone needs a blueprint for what Black-led Mayor Greg Fischer has refused to hold organizations look like, link up with Change #BrettMylesAndJon accountable for the Today, Change Tomorrow where Black murder of Breonna Taylor. He has discussed women are protected and not rejected. Look empty promises to remedy the ills of redlinto the Louisville Community Bail Fund ing while simultaneously advocating for and where our jail funding gentriIt is only through the support includes fication. Black bail, COVID-19 home ownership radical imagination of care, childcare, and property food, mental values have drasabolition that Black services tically declined women have any chance health and a direct during Fischer’s response to the tenure while of protection. housing crisis. evictions of Black tenants have substantially increased, accord3. Reform is just status quo in sheep’s ing to stories in Louisville Business First in clothing. December 2019 and September 2014. His Black Lives Matter Louisville is about anti-Black policies demonstrate “outraabolition. There is no version of police geous recklessness and willful, wanton, reform that will erase the inception of cops unprecedented and unlawful conduct,” the as the original slave catchers. There is no lawyer for Breonna Taylor’s family told The Courier Journal in July. He supports the con- version of reform that will convince Officer Jonathan Mattingly that killing an unarmed tinued funding of police terrorism. “Police Black woman in her home was anything but operations made up the largest expenditure “legal, moral, and ethical.” There is no verin the operations budget, as is typical. The sion of reform that will hesitate to sacrifice council appropriated $190.6 million for a Black woman’s life for the right price the Louisville Metro Police Department, (looking at you, Attorney General Daniel up slightly from the $189.9 million the Cameron). body appropriated last year,” according Abolition has never been won through to a WFPL story in June. He defended the peaceful demonstrations. It is only with a Louisville Metro Police Department chief consistent disruption of the status quo that in Breonna Taylor’s death investigation. we can ever hope for sustainable freedom. He was featured in a pro-gentrification Louisville’s police force and injustice video called “I go downtown” created by @ DowntownLouisville. The mayor pushed for system are both upheld by the comfort of the disproportionate criminalization of Black affluent white folks. Their racism and hatred youth through the state’s gang bill, estimated for Black life is funded by the police department budget. If we can destroy their source to cost $19.5 million. of funding, we can finally breathe. I am a Black and Choctaw woman. I have tried 2. The protection of Black women is a BLACK WOMEN are not protected. We are not safe in The West End. We are not safe in Louisville. We are not safe in Kentucky. We are not safe in this white supremacist world. Historically, peaceful protests have garnered reform that eventually collapses and is revealed as an evolution of white supremacy. It is only through the radical imagination of abolition that Black women have any chance of protection. In Louisville specifically, we are battling three levels of attack on Black women.
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marches, speeches, a hunger strike, emails, boycotts and a host of other peaceful forms of protests for decades. I can attest to the ineffectiveness of solely relying on peaceful demonstrations. Black Lives Matter Louisville will continue to stand in solidarity with oppressed people. This message is for Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (who I voted for) and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (who I definitely did not vote for).
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By Marc Murphy | leo@leoweekly.com TO PARAPHRASE a quip that’s been oftGrand Jury of the officers’ theoretical peers. In other words, not by us. repeated in recent days, while it’s true a A prosecutor prosecutor can get a is allowed to do Grand Jury to indict Worse, the only that, in the ordinary a ham sandwich, case. In theory and it’s equally true that reasonable conclupractice the proshe can keep that ecutor can be the ham sandwich from sion from his press first line of defense, being indicted. At conference and the ironically, protectthe risk of taking ing citizens from the pork imagery grand jury’s report unjust or political one step too far, Kentucky’s attorney to supervising Judge prosecution. The American Bar general singleAnnie O’Connell is Association Stanhandedly saved dards of Justice and officers Jonathan that he misled us the U.S. Supreme Mattingly’s and Court emphasize Myles Cosgrove’s about how he did that while prosecubacon. it. He owes it to tors have clients for This, he should whom they must not have done. Breonna Taylor, to zealously advoWorse, the cate — the people only reasonable Kenneth Walker, to — unlike defense conclusion from Louisville, and to the counsel they have a his press conferand equally ence and the Grand world, to tell us what separate important obligaJury’s report to tion to pursue the supervising Judge really happened. truth. Sometimes Annie O’Connell Until he does, fires — the truth is obviis that he misled us and works to about how he did metaphoric and real ous prevent a case from it. He owes it to going further. Breonna Taylor, to — will continue to That is not, howKenneth Walker, to smolder and burn. ever, the case here. Louisville, and to Being a prosecuthe world, to tell us tor isn’t easy. I’ve been one in three different what really happened. Until he does, fires jurisdictions. It shouldn’t be easy. But he — metaphoric and real — will continue to made his job unnecessarily harder by decidsmolder and burn. This becomes more true ing that he, alone, should determine whether daily as legitimate challenges to the evia rain of bullets from inside and outside that dence he did describe are brought to light. home by “trained” police was a “justified” In the moments after his press conferresponse to the home-dweller’s single shot ence, lawyers and others who listened (evidence strongly suggests he believed they closely to his carefully chosen words began were violent intruders in the middle of the to suspect the worst: That charges against night, not police). Worse, by fudging the officers Mattingly and Cosgrove were never announcement with the obvious hope that actually presented to the Grand Jury for the average observer would conclude the their consideration. That the “justification“ Grand Jury, not he, made that decision, he for their actions described by the attorney violated the memory of Breonna Taylor and general was determined by him, and not the
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added fuel to the fires of doubt our community already has in the justice system itself. I do not know, nor does anyone outside his office to my knowledge, with 100% certainty that the case was not presented to the Grand Jury. It almost certainly wasn’t. The Attorney General won’t answer this question, posed daily since Wednesday’s press conference. Further, as many have noted, there were no No True Bills returned, strongly suggesting that draft indictments (“bills”) were never considered by the Grand Jury, whose obligation would have been to return No True Bills if they believed crimes had not been committed. Grand Jury secrecy is most definitely A Thing. However, it’s not the Thing the Attorney General wants the world to think it is. The rules prevent participants who were in the room from disclosing without a court order what they heard and saw. The witnesses themselves can stride right out of the Grand Jury session, hold a press conference, and tell the world what they just said. Similarly, prosecutors are fond of holding press conferences, standing behind mountains of seized drugs or in front of large charts on
easels and describing in detail the evidence that either will be or has been used to obtain indictments. Prosecutors can and should also describe why charges were not filed. Because it is clear now that the Grand Jury never had the opportunity to consider the cases against the men who shot at and killed Breonna Taylor, the Attorney General owes us — “owes” is a strong word but it is exactly the right one here — (1) an admission that he made that decision for us, and (2) the transcripts of the proceedings themselves. Per the rules, he’s either already or will soon have to provide them to Officer Hankison’s counsel. If he doesn’t, the message to Breonna’s family and the suffering and besieged community in Louisville, the nation and the world who has been Saying Her Name for months is that except as it was relevant to bullets shot through her apartment into the white neighbors’ place next door, the Grand Jury never heard her name at all. Marc Murphy is a trial lawyer in Louisville and an editorial cartoonist for The Courier Journal. •
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THE FORMULA FOR POLICE VIOLENCE IN LOUISVILLE By Dan Canon | leo@leoweekly.com “WAIT FOR IT,” I said. She’s busy. She’s making coffee and reading the news and answering calls to action on Facebook and looking up the next Zoom class for our second-grader. “Huh?” “There’ll be an indictment,” I say. “If I were running this circus, I’d make sure they indict just one cop.” “Oh,” she says. “Well, that’s optimistic.” “Hell no, it’s not,” I say. “They’ll indict one guy for manslaughter — that makes people feel like they won something. Or, at least it makes the local news channels salivate when people are still in the streets ‘cause now they can say ‘my god, they got an indictment, what more could these protesters possibly want?’ Then, they let that one guy plead to something stupid — wanton endangerment, probably. No trial. They can’t let a trial happen, because juries never convict cops and then everyone will be right back in the streets. They’re betting that twelve million bucks and a slap on the wrist with no jail time will be the price for keeping the peace.” “No way, man,” she says, slinging a toddler over her shoulder and lobbing cinnamon rolls at the other two. Then, it was off to school in the living room, leaving me to wait by the phone until the afternoon announcement. When it came, I, the bumbling, naïve Hoosier, lost to my spouse, the pragmatic Okie, as usual. When will I ever learn? It’s not like I’m new at this. My memory of police violence in Louisville goes all the way back to 2002, when detectives Michael O’Neil and Brian Luckett went looking for a suspect and instead found a door to an unrelated apartment that was already standing open. At least it was open enough to put a boot in, and then to swing it wide enough for two plainclothes cops to enter. Inside, they found a total of five people, including 50-year-old James Taylor. James was slight and wiry, probably drunk, and probably mentally ill. Most stories faithfully slapped “convicted felon” before his name every time, as though it were an honorific. Detectives handcuffed James and put him in a chair. At some point, James stood up and produced a 3-inch box cutter from his pocket. According to police, he “lunged” at them. According to police, someone always lunges. But according to the other
eyewitnesses in the apartment, there was no lunging. It doesn’t matter now, and it didn’t matter then. O’Neil shot James 12 times. He was still handcuffed behind his back. We made signs. We marched in the street. We wrote letters. We demanded a citizen’s review board with the power to discipline bad cops. We met with the city’s new police chief, who smiled sincerely, shook hands firmly and promised reforms. The county prosecutor went so far as to impanel a grand jury, just to show that something was being done. Neither detective was indicted. They both returned to the force. The family hired a well-known Louisville civil rights lawyer and sued the police. After years of litigation, a jury awarded them what they thought James was worth: nothing. Everyone went back to work and back to school and back to the vacuity of knowing that nothing was going to change. In my first year of law school, a Louisville police officer named McKenzie Mattingly killed Michael Newby. Michael was 19 years old. Mattingly, working undercover, tried to make a drug buy from Michael. Things went south. Michael ran. Mattingly shot him in the back. Again, we were in the streets with our signs. Again, we demanded reform. And again, nothing happened. Mattingly was gingerly guided through an utter farce of a prosecution and quickly acquitted at trial. He moved to another county and went right on being a cop. The Newby family’s lawsuit against Mattingly was one of the very first cases I worked on as a clerk, and then as a new lawyer. By the time I was involved, the case had been to the court of appeals and back. My mentors and lawyers for the city discussed the plan for a jury trial, while I kept my mouth shut and tried to understand what was happening. The judge, a stern, pinknosed curmudgeon who had represented the cops of Smallville in his younger days, didn’t like the case. He could keep out our evidence. He could shut down our witnesses. He could ensure that the Newby family would end up empty-handed like James Taylor’s family. There was nothing we could do unless we made another trip to the court of appeals, which would take another year, at least. We gathered up our pens, pads and coffee cups, jaws clenched, not saying anything. The city offered a modest sum, which,
After hearing the grand jury announcement, protesters sang and chanted as tthey made their way through the Germantown area towards The Highlands. | PHOTO BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.
in their estimation, was the value of a young man who had the audacity to flee a cop in terror. They could have paid more, but they knew they didn’t have to. Then, there was Leon Brackens, who called 911 to report his own kidnapping. When police chased him over the state line, the white driver who ran from the cops with Leon in the car was gently taken to the back of an LMPD cruiser. Leon, who had minutes earlier told a 911 dispatcher that he didn’t want to run and the driver was trying to kill him, was yanked out of the passenger seat and beaten senseless. When Leon died a few months later, his family got a few thousand bucks to settle with one department, but the case against LMPD was dismissed as an “honest mistake” by an Obama-appointed trial judge. No one was charged. No one was disciplined. No one was even in the streets that time. After working a few dozen gruesome cop cases and seeing hundreds more last only a few hours in the national news blender, I’m ashamed to say that a lawyer gets used to stories like these. I’ve been conditioned to think of a case like Breonna Taylor’s as nota-case, a non-starter, a nullity. The cops had a warrant. They may have even knocked and announced that they were police — not to say that anyone heard it, but that it doesn’t much matter. A civilian pointing a weapon of any kind at an officer is, we have come
to accept, grounds for an instantaneous death sentence, no matter the circumstances. “Yes, this all looks according to protocol,” I thought. “Not like anything that would ever be prosecuted as a murder. Cops kill people in drug raids, after all. Everyone knows that. Maybe they’ll charge one of them with manslaughter to placate the masses, but it won’t go anywhere.” At least I was right about the sham prosecution. Still, I got it mostly wrong. I wasn’t able to cast off the last vestiges of my youthful optimism for long enough to foresee a prosecution that was such a sham as to indict on wanton endangerment — a bullshit catch-all that appears to have been the only charge the attorney general bothered to present. That means the one and only officer charged will likely end up pleading to a lesser crime (a misdemeanor), followed by no jail time, followed by an expungement, followed by a transfer to a smaller department, say, Bardstown or Paducah, where he will be heralded as a hero. And — this was a curveball, even for me — the charge had nothing to do with Breonna’s death. It was for endangering some white folks next door who, in the state’s estimation, might not have deserved to die. So, as cynical as my take was, it turns out it wasn’t cynical enough. Breonna Taylor didn’t even get the measure of justice that James Taylor CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 LEOWEEKLY.COM // SEPTEMBERS 30, 2020
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got nearly 20 years ago. And here I thought we’d made some progress since then. Were it not for the unrest in nearly every American city, looking at things in jadegreen lawyervision at any other moment over the last 20 years, I’d have said that Breonna’s civil lawsuit was unlikely to go anywhere at all, let alone bring the family a $12 million dollar settlement. Firing a gun at police? Don’t expect to live through that and don’t bother opening an estate; that’s a five-minute call with a sobbing mother to say “sorry for your loss, ma’am, but we can’t take your case.” I’m glad to have been wrong about that one, and I’m especially glad for the bravery of attorneys Lonita Baker and Sam Aguiar, who took on a case that would have been a sure-fire loser five years ago. The smoke of all these fires gets in your eyes after a while, so you can’t even see what first-year law students can: There’s the law, and there’s what’s right, and those two things are often conflated. That is, even if these officers had a valid warrant, and even if they knocked, and even if everyone in the damn house was a drug dealer, and even if Breonna’s boyfriend shot first, and even if the law says it’s OK, isn’t it kinda fucked up that cops can break down your door in the middle of the night and kill you over a bag of drugs? Isn’t it fucked up that that’s not murder? Isn’t it fucked up that someone like me, possessed of both a law license and a bleeding heart, can look at a situation like that, scribble some math on the back of an envelope, and conclude, “nah, that’s not a case — criminal or civil?” Kentucky’s attorney general, Louisville’s mayor and the LMPD no doubt hope that they can contain this raging fire for a few more months, until it all ends up a match tossed in the toilet, and we move right on to the next atrocity like we always do. It’s a safe bet. After all, there is law, there is order, there is a process, and we can tell ourselves that “sometimes it doesn’t work but mostly it does,” and maybe even believe it. White lawyers like me can eat breakfast with their kids in the morning, banter about the day’s news with their spouses, and tuck their little girls in at night knowing that no one is likely to break down their doors and kill them. It’s been that way as long as I can remember. • Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer and law professor. “Midwesticism”is his shortdocumentary series about Midwesterners who are making the world a better place. Watch it at: patreon.com/dancanon.
THE LMPD — THE INSTITUTION AND ITS CULTURE — IS CORRUPT By John Yarmuth | leo@leoweekly.com THERE ARE AT LEAST two definitions of corrupt. One is to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain and does not, so far as we know, describe Louisville Metro Police Department. Sadly, the second definition, to debase by making errors or alterations, precisely describes LMPD’s handling of the Breonna Taylor death. Even sadder is that a mounting stack of evidence indicates that the errors and alterations were deliberate. Many in our community, myself included, are heartbroken over the loss of Ms. Taylor and the pain her loss and its aftermath have caused. We are sick that each night’s national news depicts Louisville as anything but the compassionate, empathetic city we like to think we are. We would rather not get Oprah’s and LeBron’s attention this way. We know we are better than how the world sees us. And because I like so many of the fine officers I have met over the past 14 years, I am heartbroken that I have to write this column. But after the revelations of the last two weeks, we must face reality. LMPD — the institution and its culture — is corrupt. We should have known long ago that something about this case was amiss. While Breonna Taylor was killed on March 13, most of us didn’t know anything about the debacle until early in May. The efforts of the police to control the public narrative should have been a red flag that we weren’t getting an accurate account of what happened when
three officers knocked down Taylor’s door in the middle of the night. We were told by LMPD that the officers announced themselves before battering the door. Indeed, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron told the Grand Jury that one witness had heard them say: “This is the cops.” Now we know, from information reported just last week, that the one witness, a week after the shooting, had denied hearing anyone announce themselves, but changed his story two months later after a call from the police. And by the way, at least 11 other witnesses denied hearing any announcement from the officers. We were told that the three officers were not wearing body cameras that night, which may have been true but not honest. Because last week we saw body cam video from other officers that raises additional questions about the conduct of the raid. We also learned that Brett Hankison, the only officer indicted by the Grand Jury, entered Taylor’s apartment after the shooting to ask about and comment on the evidence there and left the scene of the crime, all in violation of department policy. Then, there were the cynical attempts at deflection. A leaked LMPD report cast unsubstantiated allegations that Breonna Taylor was involved in drug trafficking, the activity at the core of this case. Even when offered a get-out-of-jail-free plea deal to implicate Taylor, Jamarcus Glover, the true target of the police that night, denied that she was in any way involved.
And then in the early morning hours Tuesday — on the eve of Cameron’s announcement — Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly penned a six-paragraph, department-wide email, calling protesters “thugs” and “criminals,” and saying they did the “legal, moral and ethical thing that night.” What is eminently clear is that LMPD consciously tried to minimize and justify the actions of their officers in Breonna Taylor’s death and that for many who are tasked with protecting the public, the goal was neither to understand the failing that led to a woman being killed in her home or to protect against further injustice, but solely to defend the individuals and institution that killed her. While I remain convinced that most of our police officers are good public servants, it required many more than a few to either execute, or ignore, the attempted cover-up. I have confidence that incoming acting LMPD chief Yvette Gentry is committed to changing the culture of the department and promoting vastly more transparency and accountability. Her job has gotten a lot harder than it was a few months ago. U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, founder of LEO, has represented Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional District since 2007 and is now chairman of the House Budget Committee. •
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THE BREONNA TAYLOR CASE
WHAT IS IN THE GRAND JURY RECORDINGS!
THE CITY WAITS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL TO FINALLY REVEAL WHAT WAS SAID BEFORE THE GRAND JURY
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AFTER DEMANDS for state Attorney General Daniel Cameron to release transcripts of the Grand Jury deliberations in the Breonna Taylor case, a grand juror filed suit seeking permission to speak publicly and for the proceedings to be made public. “The citizens of this Commonwealth have demonstrated their lack of faith in the process and proceedings in this matter and the justice system itself. Using the grand jurors as a shield to deflect accountability and responsibility for these decisions only sows more seeds of doubt in the process while leaving a cold chill down the spines of future grand jurors,” the filing says. “The full story and absolute truth of how this matter was handled from beginning to end is now an issue of great public interest and has become a large part of the discussion of public trust throughout the country,” the filing says. Cameron then issued a statement in which he agreed to release the recordings Wednesday, Sept. 30 to the court. He also claims that he did present evidence regarding the police killing of Taylor, but he recommended only charges of wanton endangerment and grand jurors returned just one indictment — charges against a former officer and not relating her death. Fired Detective Brett Hankison was indicted on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment after jurors found that bullets he fired outside of Taylor’s apartment March 13 punctured a neighbor’s apartment. But activists and lawyers alike have asked whether Cameron presented evidence to grand jurors against the officers and whether he steered the Grand Jury to return no charges. Here is his statement: “The Grand Jury is meant to be a secre-
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Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
tive body. It’s apparent that the public interest in this case isn’t going to allow that to happen. As the special prosecutor, our team has an ethical obligation not to release the recording from the Grand Jury proceedings, and we stand by our belief t hat such a release could compromise the ongoing federal investigation and could have unintended consequences such as poisoning the jury pool. Despite these concerns, we will comply with the Judge’s order to release the recording on Wednesday. The release of the recording will also address the legal complaint filed by an anonymous grand juror. We have no concerns with grand jurors sharing their thoughts on our presentation because we are confident in the case we presented. Once the public listens to the recording, they will see that over the course of two-and-a-half days, our team presented a thorough and complete case to the Grand Jury. Our prosecutors presented all of the evidence, even though the evidence supported that Sergeant Mattingly and Detective Cosgrove were justified in their use of force after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker. For that reason, the only charge recommended was wanton endangerment.” •
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USE OF FORCE ON PROTESTERS: THEY SAY IT IS EXCESSIVE, POLICE SAY IT IS NECESSARY By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com STATE REP. Attica Scott had a few minutes left before curfew. So, she and other activists were heading for sanctuary at First Unitarian Church on Fourth Street. Suddenly Louisville police surrounded them, some yelling and some, she said, with guns drawn. Within minutes, Scott, her daughter Ashanti, Louisville activist Shameka Parrish-Wright and a group of others were arrested. Scott was charged with two misdemeanor counts of unlawful assembly and failure to disperse, along with firstdegree rioting, a Class D felony. Police allege Scott was part of a group that tried to set fire to the library, even though a video captured by Scott shows she was not involved. How police treated Kentucky’s only Black woman legislator that evening is but one example of what protesters have called a consistently over-aggressive response to peaceful demonstrations, marred by a few instances of property damage and one person who shot at and injured two officers. While police have reigned in use of tear gas since the earliest days of the protests in late May and early June, they are still using pepper balls, batons, flash bang grenades, blockades and other shows of force in response to protesters. The protests and the use of force escalated again last week when a Grand Jury, under Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s suggestion, did not charge any officers for killing Breonna Taylor. Scott, arrested the day after that decision, said she believes the police are “setting up” protesters for arrest. “It’s all about exerting power, domination and control over people who dare to speak up and speak out,” Scott told LEO after a press conference Sunday in which she denied the charges and criticized the police tactics that evening. “It’s to send a clear message: ‘We can do whatever we want to, to whoever we want to, at any time.’” During testimony before the Metro Council, interim Police Chief Robert Schroeder tried to explain when and why police use force on protesters. “If you look at Jefferson Square Park, we have no visible presence,” he said. “We are allowing people to express themselves, to air their grievances, to do the general First Amendment type activity and as long as they are doing it in a peaceful manner. When you talk about interactions with the public, typically we are only interacting when we see behavior that starts to become alarming, to ask where we think there is a public safety concern.” Since Wednesday, police have shown up in riot gear to protests near Jefferson Square Park, however. A Louisville police spokesperson, Jessie Halladay, said some protesters are provoked simply by the police’s presence or their protective gear. “Every day, we are considering what our action, what the consequences of our actions will be.” Experts and protesters agree that the heavy police presence is provocative, and they also contend officers failed
to act proportionately to the protests, serving to worsen confrontations on the streets. Austin McCoy, an Auburn University assistant professor of history who teaches classes on African American history and who researches social movements and activism, was among the people at Jefferson Square Park on Sunday. He agreed that just having heavily armored officers at protests can cause undue tension. “A lot of times police presence and police engagement just escalates the protests,” he said. “And a lot of these protests are militant. So if you just add police presence, especially heavy police presence to the environment, then yeah people will respond. And obviously the force is asymmetrical because the police have all the guns. And the law and law enforcement, National Guard, right, they have all the weaponry and all the law behind them and things like that.” Samuel Walker, a professor emeritus from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, who specializes in civil liberties, policing and criminal justice, said national standards for law enforcement recommend that police make sure they’re not targeting wide swaths of protesters with their tactics. “You don’t let the actions of a few people out there dictate your response to the entire group,” Walker said. “Let’s say there’s some act of violence, people are throwing something or vandalizing a store of something, [police] then overreact, and their actions are directed against everybody that’s out there. So, that’s where things go wrong.” But Schroeder has sug-
Police made their way down 6th Street as they followed protesters who were leaving the square shortly after curfew on Saturday. | PHOTOS BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.
Louisville police arrested several protesters at Sixth Street and Broadway after curfew went into effect.
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gested that Louisville police aren’t always following this standard. At a press conference, Schroeder said that any protester can be arrested and charged with rioting if they’re near other people who are destroying property. “It does not require an individual to actually have participated in a specific, destructive act,” he said. “As you heard Mayor Fischer say, we encourage people to separate themselves from any damage or any unlawful activities during the protest.” When asked about this justification, Walker said, “That doesn’t make any sense at all … You can’t arrest and charge somebody who did not, you know, engage in a criminal act.” At least one protester claims they were beaten and arrested for just being at a protest where property damage occurred. Artist Aron Conaway told LEO he drove his electric scooter to The Highlands on Bardstown Road on Wednesday to deliver food to protesters. He set up about 15 to 20 feet from the front line, handing out bananas and other snacks when Louisville police blocked the crowd from advancing. A few people in a crowd of hundreds of peaceful protesters had busted out the window of at least one business and flipped chairs at another restaurant. After a standoff, video taken by onlookers captured police surrounding and then charging into the crowd with wooden batons, pushing and aggressively arresting some protesters. Conaway said he was one of them, although he wasn’t actively protesting. A video from the scene shows one officer bumping another officer who falls backward and runs into a man on a red scooter who is turning around to leave. Conaway says the man is him. The officer who fell into Conaway tackles him, with more police joining in, dragging Conaway around and pinning him. Conaway said that he decided to leave as he heard yelling and saw protesters running toward him. The officers who arrested Conaway hit him and shot pepper spray into his eyes, he said. Conaway suffered a fractured rib and a bump to the head even though he was wearing a helmet. An arrest citation that Conaway shared with LEO shows that he was charged with wanton endangerment and three misdemeanors: resisting arrest, failure to disperse and disorderly conduct in the second degree. The arrest report says Conaway attempted to strike the officer with his scooter. Conaway denies this, and he said he told the officer this while being arrested. Conaway’s wanton endangerment charge is listed as first degree, a Class D felony, on his arrest citation, but Conaway said an officer told him it had been dropped to second degree, which is a misdemeanor. Five days later, Conaway said, he was still struggling to get out of bed due to his injuries. He believes that when police use excessive force on protesters, they’re purposefully agitating the crowd. “LMPD is just adding insult to injury with this entire situation ... stopping an absolutely peaceful protests in its tracks and inciting violence and then creating this theatrical production that made it to be some type of conflict,” he said. Aaron Tucek, a legal fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, said that Louisville police don’t seem to be resorting to tear gas immediately on protesters anymore, but he’s worried that they’re engaging in more shows of force like they did on Bardstown Road. “I think the level of brute force being applied to you is
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scary,” he said. The ACLU has been concerned about use of force since the protests began in May. In July, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the city for using crowd control weaponry on protesters in the early days of the demonstrations, including tear gas, flash bangs, pepper balls and batons. Scott is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. She said a police officer pushed her and she was tear gassed while peacefully protesting downtown. Tyra Walker, the co-chair of the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, is another activist who says she’s a victim of excessive force. The arms of arrested protesters were secured behind their backs during On Wednesday, she went to the protest on Bardstown Road last Wednesday. Jefferson Square Park to clean up trash around 8 p.m. When she saw a few people set fires, she decided to leave. But, she paused in the street on her way to film a line of officers who she said had followed her, according to a video she posted to Facebook. One officer told her to get on the sidewalk, so she did. She thought she heard him continuing to yell at her so she responded. But, it was someone else, and the officer shot a pepper ball over her head. Walker hurried back to her car and turned off her camera but stayed downtown, not willing to leave until she knew the other members of her group were safe. An officer shouted at her to leave and fired another pepper ball at her car, which was a Police formed a perimeter around protesters who had been arrested. rental, damaging it, she said. Since June, Walker has been talking think LMPD has done a very professional and very good job with Louisville police about not using excessive force on in maintaining the peace.” protesters. As proof, Piagentini pointed to the fact that, on Thursday “Y’all can’t tell us how to protest, because a protest is a evening, only 24 people were arrested at the protests. And, protest. There’s going to be obstruction of justice,” Walker when two police officers were shot by someone at the prosaid she told the Louisville police. “And that’s when, you tests on Wednesday night, no officers fired their guns back at know, one of the majors was like, well, be prepared to the crowd. be arrested. And I said, as long as I’m not tackled. I’ll be He said he wouldn’t propose any “sweeping” changes to arrested, just don’t tackle me or anybody else.” the way LMPD has been handling the protests. Walker said her stepfather is a chaplain for the Jefferson Metro Councilman Brandon Coan, a Democrat whose County Sheriff’s Office and her dad used to be a Louisville district includes The Highlands, is working on an ordinance police officer. that would restrict use of chemical agents by Louisville “My daddy served this city, and I ended up being traumapolice, including tear gas and pepper balls. tized by the city he served,” she said. He’s also worried about other tactics police have been Metro Councilman Anthony Piagentini, an outspoken using over the past few days, including blocking protesters police advocate and Republican, said he believes that police from continuing their marches. have acted appropriately. He said he watches livestreams “I think that law enforcement response to that has to be filmed by members of the media and LMPD. more pointed at individuals,” he said. “Because otherwise it “There’s no such thing as an organization as big as creates an atmosphere where people who just come down to LMPD and they do things perfectly 100% of the time, all the peaceably assemble and peaceably express themselves feel time, right?” he said. “In the reports that I’ve seen overall, I like targets and that should never be the case.” •
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THE CITY CURFEW WAS INEFFECTIVE AT BEST, AND DEADLY AT ITS WORST By Scott Recker | srecker@leoweekly.com IT WAS just after midnight on June 1 when Louisville police and the National Guard stormed a parking lot on 26th Street and Broadway. They were more than 20 blocks from the downtown protests, but officials later said they were there to enforce the 9 p.m. curfew. David McAtee, owner of YaYa’s BBQ, was cooking food for friends and family who frequently gathered there Sunday evenings. The police shot pepper balls at the crowd. McAtee fired a gun outside of his kitchen and then was killed by a rifle round fired by a National Guard member. Now, months later, police claim they were outside of McAtee’s because they received intelligence of a protest caravan forming in the area, but the existence of a curfew that night gave law enforcement license to break up the otherwise peaceful crowd. Even though that night showed the dangerous side of enforcing a curfew, the city ordered another last week after a grand jury ruled that no police officer would be charged for the death of Breonna Taylor, and only one received counts of wanton endangerment. During the ensuing three nights of curfew, from Wednesday to Monday, there were more than 200 arrests. Two police officers were shot. Police and protesters clashed after dark. Peppers balls flew. Flash bangs exploded. Police surrounded a church that was giving sanctuary to protesters after curfew. Councilperson-elect Jecorey Arthur, who will serve District 4, which covers downtown, said that the curfew emboldens police and causes confusion. “What it does, is it kind of creates this cover for law enforcement to do what they please and for us to have less visibility in terms of what actually went down and what actually happened,” he said. “I believe that’s why the David McAtee killing is kind of being swept under the rug, because there’s just so many question marks about what happened that night: Why they went to The West End, who authorized them to come to The West End, what took place. But, the curfew, like I said, is very much like a veil for unruly behavior from the people who are supposed to be protecting and serving us.” Some cities have stopped using curfews during recent protests. Portland, Oregon hasn’t implemented one since earlier this summer after finding it to be ineffective. At a press conference Sunday, Democratic state Rep. Lisa Willner called on Mayor Greg Fischer to lift the curfew. And Rhonda Mathies spoke about getting arrested and how the curfew is being unequally applied to unfairly target the protesters. “They got us caged up,” Mathies said. “But, you can go last night, they was partying in the other end, the east end of town. This curfew’s supposed to be countywide, but we are taking the blood of this curfew.” When Fischer lifted the curfew Monday, he said it had worked as intended. “The curfew served its purpose of helping ensure that most people were home safe by 9 p.m., because our past experience had shown that most violence and destruction
occurs after dark,” the mayor said in a statement. “We sadly saw some violence, including the shooting of two police officers, one of whom remains hospitalized, dealing with complications of his injuries. But we believe the curfew helped, by ensuring fewer people were out late in the day.” Arthur said the curfew was another misstep by local leaders. “Our city government has made a long list of bad decisions,” Arthur said.
LMPD arrested protesters out past curfew on friday night. | PHOTOS BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.
ON THE GROUND
After someone broke a window of the main branch of the library and threw a flare inside on Thursday night, several protesters found sanctuary from the police at First Unitarian Church of Louisville. People en route to the church were arrested, among them state Rep. Attica Scott on a charge of felony rioting, which she has denied and which provoked disbelief from many in the community as well as calls for changes in the law. Police then surrounded First UnitarLMPD officers stood by as several protesters were arrested for being out past curfew. ian, besieging the protesters to be active, and that’s part of what we knew when we inside for several hours until a deal was made to let them offered sanctuary — it’s going to happen. Let’s help them to leave. The ACLU of Kentucky sent a letter to Jefferson be safe in it. The curfew adds a layer of chaos.” County Attorney Mike O’Connell asking him to drop the charges against the 24 people arrested, calling the situation unconstitutional. WEST END VS. EAST END? The church’s minister, Rev. Lori Kyle, said the curfew is Many people claim the curfew was not equally enforced. being used to silence people. That, in downtown and The West End, the police were “We view the curfew as stifling,” Kyle said. “These are zoned in and active, but The East End was largely not being important opportunities for people to have a voice, espepatrolled. At that press conference on Sunday, Tyra Walker, cially during this time of response to the attorney general’s co-chair of the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Politiannouncement, generally about the lack of charges against cal Repression spoke about the inconsistency. the people who murdered Breonna Taylor. It’s important “It’s supposed to be county-wide as our mayor and people have the opportunity to gather.” everybody else has said. But evidently, it’s not. It’s only A day after Scott’s arrest, the church held a gathering protest wide. … So only the protesters are being locked up. with live music and food. Kyle said that it was an effort to Because, I also have a second job. I don’t want to say where ease the tension, which she said the curfew intensifies. I work, but I also have a second job. We close at 8 o’clock so “It invites and lays the foundation for another level of that our employees can get home by nine. As I was leaving, chaos and potential conflict,” she said. “Protesters are going the restaurants where I work that’s not protest-wide were LEOWEEKLY.COM // SEPTEMBERS 30, 2020
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still open. With cars still in the drive thru.” During a press conference on Monday, outgoing interim Police Chief Rob Schroeder spoke about the confusion surrounding curfew enforcement. “We do not have enough officers to be everywhere all the time to enforce curfew,” he said. “There are some other criteria that we have learned along the way in enforcing curfew. For instance, if somebody is on private property, like a closed business, and they have a lawful reason to be there, that is not something we can enforce. If they are in a church, that’s not something we can enforce as long as they’re on the church property. So, those are things we’ve learned along the way. But, we generally, when we do anything, try to enforce it in the fairest manner possible to everybody, but we simply don’t have resources to be everywhere all the time.”
HISTORY, NEAR AND FAR
Until these recent protests, the last time Louisville had a curfew for adults was in 1974 after tornadoes killed 10 people and badly damaged several neighborhoods. In 1968, a curfew was enacted after a series of riots. Elsewhere in response to the protests regarding the deaths of Taylor and George Floyd, several cities have issued shortterm curfews. Some cities found them ineffective. In Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler announced July 2 he would not extend the city’s curfew because it had been largely unsuccessful. Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty told Oregon Public Broadcast that the curfew was “having the opposite impact we’re wanting to have.” Olivia Katbi Smith, who is the co-chair of the Portland chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, has been consistently active in those protests. She said that, when the curfew was in place, it accelerated the police reaction. “The police used that curfew as an excuse to arrest and brutalize pretty much everyone,” she said. “They tear gassed everyone. There was a case where they tear gassed a pregnant woman. This sparked a lot of lawsuits. It basically just gave the police sole permission to attack and arrest everyone they came across after 8 p.m., and it did not do anything to help the situation. It only inflamed it and made it worse.” Alex Vitale, a professor of sociology and the coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, said that curfews are not an ideal move by governments, telling this to Vox in a story that was published on May 31: “Curfews are an extremely blunt tool that should only be used sparingly and as a last result,” he said. “They give police tremendous power to intervene in the lives of all citizens. They pose a huge burden on people who work irregular hours, especially people of color in service professions who may need to travel through areas of social disturbance in order to get to and from work at night.” Arthur, who often talks about how society has to address its problematic past in order to move forward, said that the curfew is rooted in racism, and furthers extremism. “My views of curfew today are really reflective of what curfews were dating back to the 1600s — 1690, to be specific, in Connecticut — when curfews were really set in place for slaves to return back to their owners, to the property they were supposed to be working on, by sundown. Those types of mandates really opened the door for groups
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who were not police, even though we know the police were slave patrolling. But, it really opened the door for groups who were not police, to take policing into their own hands, which brings us to today, where we have white vigilante groups who think they are the police, and take it into their own hands to patrol areas of town.”
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
After a weekend that remained relatively calm, the curfew has been dropped. Whether it comes back depends on what happens next and how the city government reacts to it. During the two curfews this year, volatile and highly-publicized situations have emerged. During those tense events, Arthur said, it becomes imperative to find ways to ensure everyone gets home safely. Last Thursday, when the protesters were at the church after curfew, surrounded by police, he texted the mayor this to urge him to work out a solution: “I was calling to see if you could tell LMPD to let people go home. We all want the same thing in that regard.” Arthur told LEO: “What I meant by that was, as much as police talk about, they just want to get home safe to their families, I was reminding him and drawing a parallel and saying the protesters in the streets, we all just want to safely get home, but very much so at night.” Ten minutes later, the mayor responded, saying that the LMPD had cleared the protesters to leave. As it turned out, during Schroeder’s testimony before the council, he said city officials had discussed entering First Unitarian Church but decided against it. Arthur said he was among several people who had encouraged the mayor to let protesters go home, so he didn’t want to overstate his role in helping. But, he added, “I’m glad to do my part to be just a small fraction of freedom for anyone who is trapped in a situation that they do not want to be in and they should not be in.” •
A large crowd of protesters gathered at the First Unitarian Church for sanctuary as the 9p.m. curfew neared.
Protesters gathered outside the First Unitarian Church on Friday night.
Protesters were able to grab something to eat and take refuge at the First Unitarian Church.
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NOTES FROM THE PROTESTS: VIOLENCE IS THE NATIONAL HEADLINE, NOT THE ENTIRE STORY By Scott Recker | srecker@leoweekly.com THE CROWD of protesters gathered in a circle on the outskirts of Jefferson Square Park. They knelt for a moment of silence for Breonna Taylor, just hours after it was announced last Wednesday that no police officers would be charged for her death, and only one for wanton endangerment. A little while later, a man spoke about the importance of voting, making politicians pay for their incompetence. It was just after 6 p.m. at Jefferson Square and tone was solemn yet inspirational. The day had already seen a few clashes between police and protesters. Pepper balls were shot and arrests were made on Bardstown Road before 4 p.m., and downtown had seen similar skirmishes around an hour later. A photo circulated of a cop pulling a man on the ground by his dreads in the Highlands. A few windows were broken on buildings. Tension and tempers flared sporadically throughout the day after a historic Grand Jury ruling many considered to be massively disappointing and unjust, although predominantly predictable, in Louisville and beyond — especially among the people who’ve spent more than 100 days on the streets, trying to get justice for a woman who was shot in her own home. By sunrise Thursday, two police officers would be shot and more than 100 people arrested. But, back at around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Square, the day seemed to be winding down. After the speeches, some people left. Others stood around talking, chanting and holding up signs. Then a few small fires were started. First, a trash can and a stack of boxes. Then one popped up right by the Hall of Justice. That set off the police’s Orwellian loudspeaker, telling everyone that they were a part of an “unlawful assembly” and to disperse. Officers arrived in front of the Hall, and about five people out of hundreds threw bottles at them. Pepper balls and police flash bangs followed shortly after from the police, and a few loud firecrackers were thrown by the crowd. As I was taking a picture of a trash can on fire, what appeared to be an M-80 was tossed at it, which was followed by a thunderous boom. At this point, most protesters were on the move, as the police were staging in the Square. The crowd walked toward Broadway. A few people with baseball bats smashed bus stops and windows, but most seemed to be just looking for a way out. On Broadway, a crowd regrouped and moved south. When they turned onto College Street, what sounded like a few gunshots went off near the overpass. People ran and took cover, but when it was apparent no one was hurt, the crowd kept going. Police moved in, filtering the protesters back toward Broadway via South Brook Street. That’s when the gun was fired that wounded the two officers. I was about a block or two behind the shots and couldn’t see what happened, but the entire crowd took off running. A couple of other journalists and I stopped and
government that they had very little faith in to begin with. waited by a dumpster in an adjacent lot. People scattered, A government that should have not only provided justice peppers balls were launched and terror was in everyone’s eyes because many people, like us, had no clue what just for Breonna, but should have prevented her death in the first happened — only that someone pulled a trigger, and a chain place. • reaction mushroomed from there. It’s likely to dominate the national narrative and news that two officers were shot and fires broke out. And, of course, those things are news, they need to be reported and they’re unfortunate, worrisome and sad. But, what can’t get lost in these stories is the thousands of people who acted peacefully and are demanding change for what happened to Breonna. The protesters collectively want to see an end to police brutality and systemic racism, but they’re not a monolith. Protests are a collection of small groups, the vast majority peaceProtesters gathered near Jefferson Square Park last Wednesday. | PHOTO BY SCOTT RECKER. ful clusters of friends and like minds, with a small handful of people who boil over to violence. To uniquely blame “the protesters” for the actions of a few is intellectually dishonest at best, and it fails to understand the core principles of a massive civil rights movement. No one knows where this goes from here. But people are angry. They feel betrayed by a A few, small fires were set near Jefferson Square Park last Wednesday. | PHOTO BY SCOTT RECKER. LEOWEEKLY.COM // SEPTEMBERS 30, 2020
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POST BREONNA TAYLOR DECISION, BLM LOUISVILLE ISSUES NEW DEMANDS By Danielle Grady | dgrady@leoweekly.com BLACK LIVES MATTER LOUISVILLE with what has happened. And, we need to have actions, but we need to have and partner groups have released a new actions that get us to the end goal.” list of demands in reaction to Attorney On its Facebook page, Black Lives General Daniel Cameron’s announceMatter Louisville urged followers to ment that no officers would be charged share the demands widely. They’re also for killing Breonna Taylor. being promoted by Queer Kentucky; “We have momentum now, and we Root Cause Research Center; Louisreally want to build upon that while the ville Black Social Workers; Party for eyes of the world are on Louisville.” Socialism and Liberation Kentucky; said Shawnte West, a BLM affiliate and The Black Market KY; Change Today, a member of Louisville Black Social Change Tomorrow; ACLU Kentucky; Workers, a partner group pushing for and Simmons College. the demands. The newest of Black Lives Matter The demands include some that Louisville’s official demands are: BLM issued after Taylor’s death divesting from caught the LMPD and public’s atteninvesting in tion in May and a ‘And so there is community couple new ones a distrust by the building and the that the group has call for Fischer been advocating Black community to resign or be for unofficially. impeached. Absent is BLM’s of the current BLM was past call for the leadership. And so already a part officers involved a collective in Taylor’s death if we are hoping to of of groups callto be arrested and charged. start fresh, just like ing for budget changes that The revised we have to change would take demands are: away money —“Immeour police chief, from the police diately fire department to and revoke the then maybe we devote to social pensions of the need to change the services. officers that murWest said, dered Breonna.” leader at the top as “We’re asking —“Divest to divest in the from LMPD and well.’ police force Invest in commuhere, LMPD, nity building” and reinvest in programs that are going —“Immediate resignation (or to keep people from being engaged impeachment) of Mayor Greg Fischer” with LMPD in the first place …We —“Metro Council ends use of force by Louisville Metro Police Department. want more investment in the things that keep people healthy, well and safe — Police shootings are gun violence.” that’s jobs, that’s education, that’s clean —“A local, civilian community communities, that’s access to health police accountability council that is care.” independent from the Mayor’s Office As for getting rid of Fischer, West and LMPD with investigation and said that Black Lives Matter Louisville discipline power. #CPAC.” members have been unhappy with —“The creation of policy to ensure Fischer’s leadership well before Taytransparent investigation processes” lor’s case went public. “We’re all angry,” said Black Lives “We portray this image as being a Matter Louisville partner Shauntrice Compassionate City and what has hapMartin in a Facebook Live panel last pened in the Breonna case is anything Wednesday. “We are all dissatisfied
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but compassionate,” she said. “And so there is a distrust by the Black community of the current leadership. And so if we are hoping to start fresh, just like we have to change our police chief, then maybe we need to change the leader at the top as well.” Regarding some of the other demands, West said that ending use of force by police would really be regulating those types of actions to “very, very limited and extreme cases.” The first reaction by LMPD should be de-escalation — just as it is for social workers. (West has been one for 18 years.) The last demand, “a transparent investigation process,” would look like better policies for documenting what happens during police interactions and, when police don’t abide by those policies, “we need to know the when, where, why and the outcomes of discipline that result from not following your own policy,” said West. During the Wednesday panel, participants offered up other ways the public can work to promote racial equity in Louisville. Councilman-elect Jecorey Arthur told viewers: “We need you protesting at your Thanksgiving dinner. We need you protesting every holiday, telling your aunts and uncles and your mother, your grandmother and your family about injustice that’s been happening, not only these past few months but these past few hundred years.” Black Lives Matter Louisville core organizer Chanelle Helm said there are three levels of action: Green, which involves things like volunteering for charitable organizations such as Change Today, Change Tomorrow. Yellow, which is standing in solidarity (e.g. sharing the demands). And, red which is disrupting business as usual, such as visiting a popular brunch spot to read the demands out loud. Cassia Herron, president of the Louisville Community Grocery, advised viewers to register to vote. And, Helm told protesters to take time for themselves if needed. “There’s nothing wrong with staying in bed,” she said. “There’s nothing wrong with feeling heavy today.” •
THORNS & ROSES THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD ROSE: YES! RELEASE THE GRAND JURY TAPES!
Of course, no justice was served by the Grand Jury regarding who killed Breonna Taylor. We equivocate on which officer killed her or who shot and struck the officer because the ballistics evidence apparently is inconclusive. How can we believe Attorney General Daniel Cameron, though? We are not even sure what he told grand jurors about the three officers or whether he decided the case for himself. But, a grand juror with a conscience demanded release of the Grand Jury recordings, and guess what? Cameron said he would file them Wednesday with the court. Stay tuned...
THORN: THE TRUTH IS LEAKING OUT
With the steady drip, drip, leaks of information in the case are revealing just how bumbling and duplicitous the Louisville police are. Fired Detective Brett Hankison was allowed to walk around the crime scene before talking with investigators. Another cop involved in the raid was interviewing witnesses. The online news outlet VICE, which broke this story, concludes that body cam footage after the raid shows department policies were broken: “It also raises questions about the integrity of not only the crime scene but also the ensuing investigation into what happened that night.” We are shocked — not.
THORN: WE, OF COURSE, BELIEVE HER
State Rep. Attica Scott, the only Black woman state legislator, was arrested on charges of rioting while walking before curfew with protesters. Police allege she was in a group that tried to set fire to the library. Scott, of course, said she will fight the charge and contends she was set up. Who do you trust more? The legislator arrested in her own district while protesting police brutality or the police who demonstrated brutality that night? Interim police Chief Robert Schroeder said you don’t even have to be damaging something to be charged with rioting! “Under Kentucky’s riot statute, anyone who is part of a group causing damage or riotous behavior, is subject to the charge of rioting,” he said. “It does not require an individual to actually have participated in the destructive act.” Who decides whether you are “part of a group”? Even Tres Watson, former Kentucky GOP spokesman, spoke up for Attica in a tweet: “The @LMPD’s treatment of Rep. Scott and some media has been tone deaf. They cannot effectively police without public buy-in of their authority but their behavior is not endearing cooperation.”
THORN: ONE LAW, TWO INTERPRETATIONS
The citywide curfew seemed to apply to only the places where cops thought there would be protesting.
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STATE REP. ATTICA SCOTT ARREST: ‘WE’RE BEING SET UP’ STATE REP. ATTICA SCOTT, a Louisville Democrat and the only Black woman in the state legislature, was arrested last Thursday and charged with felony rioting, unlawful assembly and failure to disperse. Scott was crossing the street to enter the First Unitarian Church before the 9 p.m. curfew. Police have said her charges reflect that she was in a group of people that tried to burn down the main branch of the library. Scott was at a press conference Sunday during which she denied the allegation, said she would fight the charges and accused the police of setting her up for arrest. Here is what she said. “Our community deserves to know that Black lives truly do matter. My daughter, my teenage daughter and I, believe that to our core, to our depths. And that’s why on Thursday, as we have been many days and for me every day this week, we were out making sure that marches were safe. But what the alphabet soup of law enforcement that is scaring Kentucky right now decided to do was box in people who were in vehicles and refused to allow us to leave, to get to safety, to sanctuary, to shelter. And that’s what happened to us. So, it was before curfew, it was before 9 o’clock. So, we got out of our vehicle to walk literally three blocks to First Unitarian Church at Fourth and York for sanctuary. For those of you who have seen my Instagram live feed, you know that there was no mob there. About 20 of us walking together to get to the church. We were in the district that I serve, District 41. You walk past the library that I love. In elementary school, my son helped to start book club at the main library, I have fought every single budget year in Frankfort for full funding for our libraries. How dare LMPD say I was trying to burn down our library. Absurd. Give me a break. … and then to have the library union, without hesitation, without reservation, come out with the statement to say: Please, give me a break. State representative Attica Scott has been one of our largest advocate and supporters. She would never. And then to have your mayor double down and try to claim that we were with people who were trying to burn down the library, and we should have separated ourselves. Y’all need to ask him what in the world is he thinking. Stop letting him and LMPD say whatever they want to say. Ask them: What in the hell are you doing? None of us should have been arrested. None of the hundreds of people who been arrested this week should have
been arrested, but we’re being set up. They’re setting us up to be arrested. They told us — we were at the library — turn around, and when we tried to turn around, they said: ‘Circle, circle.’ And they told us to sit down while they pointed their guns in our faces like they were ready to kill us. We had no intentions of being arrested that night. They stopped us at 8:58. It wasn’t even 9 o’clock. We were literally across the street from the church, across the street from sanctuary. I’m going to fight every single one of these bogus charges. I’m going to keep showing up for justice for Breonna Taylor. That’s what she deserves, that’s what her family deserves, that’s what the community that I serve deserves.” •
State Rep. Attica Scott told the media she would fight charges against her and contended the police set up protesters to get arrested.
A series of images from state Rep. Attica Scott’s Instagram video of the moments before she was arrested last Thursday before curfew and while walking to a church. LEOWEEKLY.COM // SEPTEMBERS 30, 2020
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THE BREONNA TAYLOR DECISION BRINGS TEARS, HUGS AND ANGER By Kathryn Harrington | leo@leoweekly.com SOME CRIED. Some hugged each other. The protesters holding Jefferson Square Park for more than 100 days had gotten their answer — no charges would be brought in Breonna Taylor’s death — and they were angry. After listening to the grand jury announcement last Wednesday that only a single officer would be indicted and not on charges relating to Taylor’s death, the protesters began to march through downtown. They eventually made their way to The Highlands where police met them with force and arrests. Here a photos of the moment. •
Tamika Mallory, with New York-based social justice group Until Freedom, spoke to protesters before the attorney general’s announcement. | PHOTOS BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.
Shameka Parrish-Wright, with the Bail Project, spoke to protesters about their rights and what to do if they are detained or arrested by police during a protest.
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PHOTO ESSAY A protester cried after hearing that no charges would be brought against those responsible for Breonna Taylor’s death.
Protesters comforted one another after it was announced that no officers would be charged for the killing of Breonna Taylor in March.
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PHOTO ESSAY After the announcement of no charges relating to Breonna Taylor’s death, protesters marched through downtown on Wednesday.
Protesters gathered in Jefferson Square Park as they waited for the decision.
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Linda Sarsour, with the New York-based social justice group Until Freedom, hooked up a phone to a speaker system so protesters could hear the decision as it was being announced. Protesters gathered in Jefferson Square Park on Wednesday as they listened to the grand jury announcement of whether those responsible for Breonna Taylor’s death would be charged.
After hearing that no charges will be brought against the officers involved in killing of Breonna Taylor, many protesters in the Square cried and hugged one another.
Protesters encountered Louisville police officers as they marched through downtown. LEOWEEKLY.COM // SEPTEMBERS 30, 2020
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Reclaiming The Waters Of The Ohio And Seizing The Day For Ohio River Restoration Zoom | louisville.edu/sustainability/OhioRiver2020 | Search Facebook Free | 9 a.m.-noon
It may not be for the same reasons that ON THE RIVER George Rogers Clark founded Louisville on the shores of the Ohio River, but the river and its tributaries are as critical to the city today as they were then. And it’s now up to us to save them. Begin the day exploring “How Restoring the Ohio River Watershed Can Build a Thriving ‘Blue Economy,’” with keynote speaker John Austin, director of the Michigan Economic Center. Then, join staff from the The Ohio River on a foggy morning. | PHOTO BY MANOFMETTLE.COM National Wildlife Federation in planning how to restore the Ohio River ecosystem in a way that is “integrated with equity and social justice.” “We believe we have a historic opportunity to engage many diverse stakeholders in crafting a visionary ecosystem restoration plan for the Ohio River that leads to a strong restoration economy, supports people who have historically borne the brunt of pollution and environmental degradation — people of color, rural and low-income communities, and tribal nations — and benefits fish, wildlife, and many other species in the basin,” according to organizers. A Zoom link and Information to join the conference is available on the website above. —Aaron Yarmuth
THURSDAY, OCT. 1-NOV. 1
Jack O’Lantern Spectacular
Iroquois Park | 4800 New Cut Road | jackolanternlouisville.com $35 | Dusk (around 7:30 p.m.) One of our favorite Halloween events of the year, the Jack O’Lantern Spectacular is back all month with thousands of carved, illuminated pumpkins. Scenes of themed CARVED carvings set to music will light the pathways of Iroquois Park in an art show unlike anything else you’ll experience all year. As with seemingly every other event this year, the Spectacular, for the first time ever, has been modified to a drive-thru event. While not ideal, at least going to a drive-thru makes it less weather-dependent on cold or wet nights, plus, it’s more accessible to those who can’t traverse the regular trail. Even through the car window, it is certain to awe and inspire the whole family. —LEO
Scary pumpkins from a past Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular.
FRIDAY, OCT. 2-31
The St. James Court Art Show
Virtual | stjamescourtartshow.com | Free | 10 a.m.
THURSDAY, OCT. 1
Boo At The Zoo
Louisville Zoo | 1100 Trevilian Way | louisvillezoo.org/boo Nonmembers $12.50, members $6 | 5-10 p.m. A 35-year Halloween tradition (that survived the pandemic) returns to the Louisville Zoo once again, a “party experience designed to give you all the kooky you love TREAT with none of the spooky.” If you’re looking for the creepy and the crawly, walk through the Spider House (…I’ll wait out here). Come in your costumes to meet Halloween characters and let the 11-and-under kiddos enjoy safe, modified trick-or-treating (instead of the regular treat booths, kids will receive a prepackaged goodie bag to minimize contacts). You can get your Boos on Thursdays through Sundays through Friday, Oct. 30. —Aaron Yarmuth
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There’s no getting around it: Missing the St. James Art Show because of COVID-19 sucks. While there is no replacing the real experience, we’re thrilled organizers have ART found a way to bring us a juried fine arts and contemporary crafts show from artists all over the country, virtually. You will still be able to find and purchase all of the artwork online. And, let’s be honest, nobody will miss having to negotiate parking in Old Louisville. Link to the virtual experience through the website above. —LEO
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SATURDAY, OCT. 3
Black-Owned Business Event
OG’z Family Store | 1615 Spring St., Jeffersonville, Indiana | Free | 2-8 p.m. Here is how you can support Black-owned businesses, such as host OG’z Family Store, a family-owned grocery in Jeffersonville. OG’z and co-host musician SwaggerLOCAL BOI ENT. are getting the word out for other local, independent, black-owned businesses. But, more than a business fair, this is a business, food, music, democracy and fun fair. Live music, games and activities for kids, an adult corn hole tournament, wellness stations and raffles are open to anyone looking to do some safe, social shopping. There will also be a voter registration booth if you haven’t taken care of that yet. Community and civic leaders will also be joining to help spread support and strengthen the community. —LEO
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7
You Can’t Be Neutral: White Anti-Racism Past and Present Virtual | Muhammad Ali Center | Search Facebook Free ($10 suggested donation) | Noon
It was apparent early on in the protest movement following the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd that this was a moment and moveSILENCE IS COMPLIANCE ment for everyone to take part in. Part of the Ali Center’s Racial Justice Series, “I Am America,” this program examines: “What does it mean to choose sides in the battle for racial equity historically and today? What kind of culture and values will help white anti-racist spaces and numbers grow? And how is liberation for all of us tied to Black Liberation?” Panelists include Carla Wallace, Shameka Parrish-Wright, Hannah White and Dr. Cate Fosl. A link to the registration page can be found on the Facebook event page. —LEO
THROUGH APRIL 18, 2021
‘Truth Be Told: The Policies That Impacted Black Lives’
Muhammad Ali Center | 144 N. Sixth St. | alicenter.org | Prices vary
SATURDAY, OCT. 3
Progressive Women Of Old Louisville — A Walking Tour Conrad-Caldwell House Museum | 1402 St. James Court conrad-caldwell.org | $25 ($15 for students) | 10 a.m.
The 19th Amendment, which enfranchised millions of women, was ratified 100 years ago in August. The Conrad-Caldwell House Museum is partnering with The PROGRESSIVE Filson Historical Society and Louisville Woman’s Club to celebrate this historic milestone with a walking tour of Old Louisville, which focuses on the progressive women who helped transform the city. The tour runs every Saturday through the end of October — the perfect time and inspiration as we lead up to the most important election in the nation’s history. Proceeds go to supporting each of the three organizations involved. —Aaron Yarmuth
In recent months, Louisville has been covered in wood panels, all in the name of protection. The Ali Center was inventively inspired to reuse those barriers as a platTRUTH form to explain racist policies from the 1600s to today. The exhibition features a spray-painted mural by Louisville artist and protester Braylyn Resko Stewart. “Taking a break and doing something like this that shows my art impacting and bringing awareness to something that should’ve been brought awareness to a long time ago is bittersweet,” said Stewart, “but I’m honored to be part of the upside of things.” —Jo Anne Triplett
‘Truth Be Told: The Policies that Impacted Black Lives’ by Braylyn Resko Stewart. Spray paint on plywood. LEOWEEKLY.COM // SEPTEMBERS 30, 2020
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Stan Squirewell
Moremen Gallery | 710 W. Main St. | Search Facebook | Free “Who am I?” That question starts many on a quest for personal understanding. Artist Stan Squirewell was no different, especially after he learned his anREPRESENTATION cestry was not what he thought it was. These new works by the painter, photographer, installation and performance artist ask “from whose perspective history is written. Marginalized communities are often overlooked and omitted from history in general. The history I was taught did not have my ancestry represented. The main thing I want the viewer to take away is to question what you think you know, what you’ve been told and what you believe.” Moremen Gallery is also showing new work by Megan Lightell through Oct. 15. —Jo Anne Triplett
Through November 29
New Hours Friday 3 – 8 Saturday & Sunday 10 – 5
Advanced ticket purchase strongly encouraged and face masks required.
speedmuseum.org
Discover another side of the Pop artist of Campbell’s soup can fame. Andy Warhol: Revelation is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine Warhol’s complex Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production.
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Frontline healthcare workers enjoy free admission—we thank you. Additional support from: Christina Lee Brown The Paradis Family LG&E and KU Foundation DDW, The Color House Land Rover of Louisville Contemporary exhibition support provided by: Augusta and Gill Holland
Exhibition season support provided by: Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein Paul and Deborah Chellgren Debra and Ronald Murphy
‘Paul’ by Stan Squirewell. Mixed media collage.
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TAKE OUT GOURMET PROVISIONS FOR BISQUE AND MORE By Robin Garr | LouisvilleHotBytes.com GOURMET PROVISIONS! You might think this is an upscale grocery or maybe a shop with fancy pots and pans and kitchen equipment. But you’d be wrong: It’s a new restaurant and a very good one, too. Gourmet Provisions, which opened Aug. 5, is the brainchild of Matt Rich, who has worked as a server and sometimes bartender at Owl Creek Country Club, Molly Malone’s, KT’s, Wild Eggs and once held a franchise for the last Steak ‘n Shake in town; and Chef Mike Driskell, who’s worked in many local kitchens including Jack Fry’s, Diamante and Club Grotto. Partnering with other chefs and a small staff, the two bring more than 50 years of experience to this venture. Housed in a storefront on the Goose Creek Lane side of Westport Plaza shopping center, they’re handling the pandemic challenge smartly, focusing most of the business on takeout and curbside service and delivery and in-home meal catering. There’s no table service, but you are welcome to sit down and enjoy your takeout meal on one of three, small, socially distanced tables. In an online conversation, Rich recalled that he has known Driskell and some other chefs he’s tapping for expertise since they met while working at Molly Malone’s in 2009. He was eager to bring Driskell, in particular, on board at Gourmet Provisions for his skills and, of course, his popular lobster
Gourmet Provisions’ Piled High Pastrami really is piled high, nearly a pound of meat with pickled red cabbage and spicy brown mustard on seeded rye. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.
bisque recipe! The online menu is simple to use and offers lunch and dinner options. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. It offers a choice of seven soups and salads, from $7 (for a Caesar, house salad, venison chili or Driskell’s lobster bisque) to $14 (for a California Cobb salad with shrimp and lobster). A half-dozen sandwiches range from $11 (for a shrimp po’boy) to $15 (for a lobster roll). Six entrées range from $13 (for bucatini puttanesca, with no anchovies, making it the only meatless main course) to $24 (for a half-dozen, extra-large shrimp stuffed with crab imperial). Larger-scale family meals big enough for two to four are from $34 (for a pork tenderloin family meal with about two pounds of roasted pork with house-made Parmesan scalloped potatoes and a large Caesar) to $90 (for four bourbon-marinated filet mignons served with twice-baked potatoes, grilled asparagus and a Kentucky bibb salad). A variety of sides are all $4.50 or less, a child’s box with grilled chicken breast with noodles and fruit is $3, and a trio of desserts are $3 to $7. Lunch was ready at the exact minute requested. Everything was neatly packaged and tightly packed in double bags, so it all stayed in place all the way home.
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The soft, delicious peanut butter chocolate chip cookie makes a spendid finish to a Gourmet Provisions meal.
We started with a $7 cup of black bean, venison chili and found it so abundant that a $10 bowl would have been overkill. A good 12 ounces of very thick chili was crafted from black beans and chopped onions with small flecks of red pepper and tiny meatballs of lean, appropriately gamey ground venison. The black beans and onions nicely balanced what might otherwise have been a fairly strong game component. It was mildly hot-spicy but not at all burning, just a pleasant smoky heat. The chili was topped with a sprinkle of yellow and white cheese shreds and served with two buttery grilled Breadworks baguette rounds. A piled-high pastrami sandwich ($14) more than lived up to its name. It was a huge sandwich loaded with close to a pound of thinly sliced, dark-brown, house-made sliced pastrami with the traditional fatty edges. It was built on lightly buttered grilled Breadworks rye to make a big square sandwich cut in half diagonally. The pastrami had been smeared with spicy brown mustard with a pile of sliced pickled red cabbage on top. The whole thing was almost too big to bite, and it was really delicious. A side of Brussels sprouts ($1 upcharge) also came in a generous portion. Gently charred halved sprouts had been tossed with a savory balsamic and olive oil mix and deeply roasted until done but still firm. All the flavors came together with roasting to
make a delicious veggie side. Bucatini puttanesca ($13) omits the usual anchovies, but the mix of bold flavors that replaced them more than made up for the loss. Enough thick bucatini pasta to fill a large bowl was sauced with a charred, ripe-tomato sauce flavored with bits of black kalamata olives, capers, chopped onion and garlic, pickled ginger, spicy heat, and Parmesan cheese shavings. It held its heat and al dente status all the way home. Warm, buttery slices of Breadworks baguette made it complete. We finished with a warm, soft, sweet and seductive peanut-butter chocolate-chip cookie ($2) topped with a shake of crunchy sea salt. It was a perfect ending to a memorable meal. An excellent lunch for two was $39.22 plus a $6.66 tip. (I tried to get the online system to take a larger tip, but the order wouldn’t go through until I accepted its highest option, 18%.)
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By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage
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Q: I’m a thirty-something gay man married to a thirty-something gay man. For almost two years, we’ve been seeing another pair of married gay men around our age. They were our fi rst experience with any sexual or romantic interaction outside of our relationship. The fi rst six months were hot and heavy. We were together constantly and having sex almost every night. After the “honeymoon phase” ended, one member of the other couple (“Roger”) wanted to slow things down. Roger and I had some confl ict over this, and I have to admit that I showed a pretty bad side of myself while grappling with insecurity. Eventually, Roger pulled me aside to talk one-on-one. He wanted us to be “friends who have sex sometimes.” Then, right after the COVID-19 lockdown started, Roger and I had another heart-toheart on my birthday. After many drinks and a lot of making out we both said we loved each other. Roger walked it back the next day. “I don’t know what you thought you heard last night,” he basically said, “but I’m not in love with you.” I was devastated. This isn’t what I want. I am in love with Roger and his husband. I don’t want to be “friends who have sex sometimes.” My husband is OK with just being friends with Roger and his husband, especially since their large friend group has adopted us and he worries we’ll lose all these new friends if I end our friendship with Roger and his husband. I would really like to talk this out with Roger, but I’m not sure I can get through that conversation without DTMFAing him. I mean, which was it? Were we a fun sexy fl ing and nothing about the last two years mattered? Or was he in love with me but decided the confl ict and complication of this relationship wasn’t worth it? Which was it? Trouble In The Quad A: Roger doesn’t want what you want. That sucks and I’m sorry. But we’ve all been there. Falling for someone who doesn’t feel as strongly for us as we do for them, whether we’re dating as couples or singles, is always painful. But that pain is an unavoidable risk. And while it may seem unfair that you can only have Roger in your life on his terms, that’s the reality. That’s everyone’s reality, TITQ, because loving someone doesn’t obligate that person to love us back or love us in the same way that we love them or want the same things we want. But Roger can’t impose his terms on you. If being “just friends” feels like an insulting consolation prize after what the last two years has meant to you, if that’s not good enough, then Roger doesn’t get to be in your life. You can have terms too. Backing up for a second: You seem to believe that if the relationship mattered—if Roger and his husband loved you and your husband and vice-versa—then it wouldn’t ended. That’s false. Something can matter and still end. Something can also matter more
to one person than it did to another person. (Or couple.) You don’t have to dismiss or minimize what the four of you had because Roger has decided, for whatever reason, that being in a quad with you isn’t what he wants. And if you’re hoping to get this quad back together… and it’s entirely up to Roger… you’re going about it wrong. If Roger got cold feet due to the “conflict and complication” of being in a poly relationship, TITQ, then your best move is to avoid conflict and complication. If you think Roger told the truth on your birthday and lied to you the next day, then you need to demonstrate the kind of emotional maturity that makes you a more attractive partner to a person like Roger. And provoking a confrontation with Roger—staging a scene where you’re likely to dump up a guy who has already dumped you—will have the opposite effect. It will only confirm for Roger the decision he has already made. Your best bet—your best strategy—is to accept Roger’s offer of friendship and refrain from blowing up at him. You should also tell him, just once and very calmly, that you and your husband would be open to getting back together with him and his husband. Best case scenario, the quad gets back together. Worst case scenario, you have some great memories, a whole bunch of great new friends, and maybe once in a while a hot foursome with Roger and his husband. Two last things… I would love to see video of you showing the “bad side” of yourself to Roger. Given the way people tend to minimize their own shitty behavior—all people do it, myself included— I’m guessing it was/you were ugly. If you’re prone to blowing up when you don’t get what you want, well, it’s understandable that someone who dislikes conflict and complication would start getting cold feet once the honeymoon phase ended. I’m not suggesting you’re toxic or unbearable‚ TITQ, only that different people have different tolerance levels for romantic conflict. But if what you want is for Roger to reconsider the decision he’s made, well, you might also wanna let him know you’re working on your approach to conflict. If you don’t want Roger to regret getting the quad back together and then quickly end things again, TITQ, or for the next Roger or Rogers who come into your life to head for the hills after their honeymoon phases end, you’ll talk with someone who can give you the tools to better handle conflict. And finally, TITQ, the other two men in this quad feel strangely inert—more like houseplants than husbands. I mean, you have nothing to say about how Roger’s husband feels and very little to say about how yours does. Is Roger’s husband interested in keeping the quad together? Besides not wanting to lose some new friends, does your husband give two shits? Because even if Roger decides he wants back in, TITQ, and that’s a big if, your revived quad won’t last for long for if
your houseplants—sorry: your husbands— aren’t just as invested as you are. Q: The man I’m seeing is the fi rst person I ever opened up to about my bisexuality. Over our fi rst year together, we had several threesomes, but we both became uncomfortable with them and one day he told me he could not have that kind of sex with a woman he cares about. We quarantined together and he felt COVID-19 had forced us to rush things. We decided to spend less time together to focus on our careers, which had both taken a hit. Now we only see each every two weeks or so. I thought it could be fun to reconnect and do some more threesomes. He agreed but asked me to handle things. I found us some amazing girls. But as in the past, our threesomes led to problems. I feel threatened, he feels jealous. We fight, I cry, he gets angry and acts like an asshole. I’m very insecure, depressed, and have spent years in therapy. The threesomes feel like too much but we have great sex when we talk about other women. Is there any way we can make this work? Lost Into My Emotions A: I feel really sorry for the women you two are having threesomes with—even if you’re doing your very special guest stars the courtesy of waiting until they leave to break down in tears, LIME, and even if your boyfriend is polite enough to wait until they’re gone before acting like an asshole, these women are most likely picking up on the tension and may feel conflicted about the sex after they go. If you’re having these meltdowns and blowups in front of these women, LIME, they definitely leave feeling terrible and may worry they did something wrong when it’s you two who are doing something wrong: continuing to have threesomes despite knowing they never end well. While I don’t think a woman should waste her time (or pussy) on a man who tells her he can’t have “that kind of sex,” i.e. sex she enjoys, with a woman he cares about, I can understand why you might want to keep seeing this guy. (COVID-19 is making it hard to find new partners.) But you should stop doing the thing that doesn’t work—having threesomes—and do the thing that does work instead: talking dirty to each other about other women. And if you still want to get with women, LIME, do it solo. He doesn’t need to be there for you to enjoy an amazing girl. mail@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage www.savagelovecast.com
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