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Teacher's fatal DUI case dismissed after LMPD officer's indictment

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RE: Teacher's fatal DUI case dismissed after LMPD officer's indictment...

March 25th, 2014 @ 8:12AM (10 years ago)

Everyone knows it's a lie to refer to this as an "isolated incident". The media included. No one wants to report it accurately because it will highlight the failure to provide adequate safety and drive away sources of actual revenue to the downtown area. Every news channel reported on the robbery and shooting of an innocent woman sitting on a park bench in 2009. The chase was caught on a live feed and filmed from a news helicopter.

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1 suspect caught, 1 on the loose after woman is shot at Waterfront Park

01:50 PM EDT on Thursday, August 27, 2009

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Police catch one suspect believed to be involved in Waterfront Park shooting, LMPD still searching for other suspect

Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - A suspect is still on the loose after a shooting in broad daylight at Waterfront Park. It happened when a WFPK Waterfront Wednesday concert started.

LMPD says two men walked up to a woman sitting on a park bench and shot her in a random act of violence.

The Waterfront Development Corporation tells WHAS 11 News the woman in her 30’s worked at a concession stand for the event.

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“She was shot in the stomach. She’s in the hospital and went into surgery and is out of surgery,” says David Karem, President of the Waterfront Development Corporation.

Karem says his staff knew the woman and their hearts go out to her family.

He believes despite Wednesday’s shooting, Waterfront Park is still safe. It’s been more than 20 years since a major incident happened.

Karem adds, “What you’re talking about is this one random event. You can’t surrender yourself to that kind of thing.”

After an extensive search, police hunted down 18-year-old Joshua Boyd in the 900 block of Jefferson Street in Louisville. He was found under a staircase.

Boyd is charged with robbery, wanton endangerment of an officer, carrying a weapon and fleeing police on foot.

“I exited the car with my canine Niko and had him at gunpoint ordered him out from between the buildings. I told him if he didn’t come out I’d send the dog in challenged him with that and he came out with his hands up,” says Officer Megan Merrick with LMPD’s Canine Unit.

It was possible because of a great tip from Michael Johnson.

“I was standing in the balcony of my church and I saw a guy with khaki bottoms running through the alley and I remembered that the officer told me he had khaki bottoms and no shirt,” he says.

Police are still searching for the second suspect. He’s described as a black male in his late teens. Detectives say he was last wearing a black shirt and plaid shorts.

Anyone with information should call police anonymously. Their number is 574-LMPD.

http://www.whas11.com/news/local/sto...1201f7e9b.html

RE: Teacher's fatal DUI case dismissed after LMPD officer's indictment...

March 25th, 2014 @ 8:36AM (10 years ago)

They used to call it wilding and now its the knockout game, but we all know its a bunch of black teens acting out their hatred again whites. That hatred has been groomed in them by the liberal politicians who play it to get votes, which is why they pretend its not a hate crime. There have been hundreds of black on white knockout attacks the last year, and the only 1 to get charged federally was the single instance of a white guy knocking out a black person. People have received the message loud and clear that they aren't going to be protected, which is why concealed carry licenses are being issued more and more. We don't all want to end up murdered like the guy found behind Kroger.