"Their entire case is that he charged the officer and he was responding to an assault," she said. "If that is the case, they need to prove to us that lethal force was necessary." At the scene, a number of residents said they felt that the recent controversies over police shootings of black men had now come to Louisville. Kenneth Williams, who was questioned by police and said he was an eyewitness to the altercation, said the man did not swing the pole at the officer. Others at the scene, who refused