The Louisville Metro Police Department is getting new leadership.

In an online news conference held on Labor Day afternoon, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced that former LMPD Deputy Chief Yvette Gentry will be assuming the role of Interim LMPD Chief later this month, even as the search continues for a new permanent chief.

Gentry will replace current Interim Chief Robert Schroeder, who is retiring Oct. 1 after serving only three months in the role. She will be the first African-American woman to serve as Louisville's police chief, even on an interim basis.

More than 60 people were arrested during national organization Until Freedom's planned demonstrations for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor Tuesday.

The group began marching from South Central Park to the Louisville Metro Police Department Training Academy at around 2 p.m. to begin what they deemed "Good Trouble Tuesday." Protesters could be heard chanting "Arrest the cops" and "No justice, no peace" while marching.

For a decade, Metro Government stood by former city police Det. Crystal Marlowe, paying hundreds of thousands in legal bills fighting about a dozen lawsuits that claimed she had wrongfully arrested several citizens.

But now, less than a year after a jury rejected the city's arguments that she had acted properly and awarded $2 million in damages to a victim in one of those cases, Mayor Greg Fischer's administration has taken a new tactic.

It is suing Marlowe to force her, and not the city, to pick up the tab.

Louisville police say a weapon discharge by a Black militia member that injured three people Saturday is being investigated as a negligent shooting - not an accident - and could result in criminal charges.

Just before 1 p.m. Saturday, three people were shot in Baxter Park after a member of the NFAC (Not F***ing Around Coalition) unintentionally discharged a gun during a demonstration. According to police, everyone injured was also part of NFAC.

For the past five years, the Louisville Metro Police Department has recruited new officers with a video that experts say promotes a "war-like mentality" and portrays police as warriors rather than public servants.

The video shows officers running in formation across a bridge, clambering into an armored vehicle in camouflage fatigues with assault rifles, and breaking down a door with a battering ram in a no-knock search like the one banned after the March 13 death of Breonna Taylor.

A man was shot and killed after shots were fired toward Louisville Metro Police Department officers and National Guard members while trying to disperse a crowd following protests, according to LMPD.

LMPD chief Steve Conrad said National Guard and LMPD officers were moved to Dino's Food Mart, located at 26th Street and Broadway, around 12:15 a.m. Monday after protests turned destructive.

Conrad said as officers and soldiers cleared the lot they were fired toward and both LMPD and members of the National Guard returned fire.

The Louisville Metro Police department says it's seeing more officers leaving the department for better paying jobs.

During a Metro Council budget hearing, Chief Steve Conrad called this fiscal year's budget his most challenging yet. The chief appeared before the Budget Committee to take questions over the recommended $179 million dollar budget for 2020-2021.

LMPD is facing increased costs from the COVID-19 pandemic and an almost 24% increase in violent crime, according to Conrad.