A quiet meal out..

[Gob]

A Louisville diner brandished a handgun at armed Black Lives Matter protesters surrounding a restaurant during a demonstration for Breonna Taylor.

The unidentified man is thought to have been eating at upscale French eatery La Chasse on Saturday night when he confronted the group of around 50 protesters.

They had been marching ahead of the 147th Kentucky Derby over Taylor's death at the hands of police during a raid at her home last March.


Video shows the diner pointing his handgun at the protesters who were arguing with him as one female demonstrator urged the group to keep moving down the block.

Louisville Metro Police spokesperson Alicia Smiley confirmed to Fox News that the protesters were also armed. Kentucky is an open carry state.

At least five people were arrested in connection with the incident. Charges include possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, failure to disperse and evading police, TMZ reported.

The man with his gun drawn does not appear to have been arrested.

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[MajGenl.Meade]

Merde she wrote

[ex-khobar Andy]

When I first came to Louisville, I was pleasantly surprised about what I perceived to be the generally good racial atmosphere. I moved from Buffalo, and my neighborhood here (both where I lived then and where I live now) were, despite their leafy suburbanness, well mixed or at least more mixed than my Buffalo area neighborhood. In walks around town I thought I saw many more mixed race couples.

To give some context to this gun waving episode: Bardstown Road is our local semi-Bohemian strip - lots of independent and decent restaurants (I've not been to this one) and tattoo places and independent bookstores and what billed itself as the largest independent record store east of the Mississippi (closed a few years back) and it's where you go if you want to watch emos and goths and zombie night.

So Bardstown Road is the most 'as you like' section of Louisville which in turn is far more 'liberal' than the rest of Kentucky. The BLM protestors, because this is the hometown of Breanna Taylor, might have expected to be on 'home' territory here. The guy with the gun probably wasn't.

This restaurant has an outdoor area which adjoins the sidewalk. There is, as far as I know, no 'fence' between them - I could be wrong. And of course Kentucky Derby Day is the opportunity for all Louisville to make a packet and it's the top revenue day of the year for many businesses. Add that to COVID restrictions and it wouldn't surprise me if they squeezed an extra table or two at the cost of a few square feet of sidewalk. Again, I don't know, I'm speculating. The killing of Ms Taylor in her own home is now about 14 months ago but it's still fresh in the minds of many, including me. The protests were bound to impinge on Louisville's day in the international sun.

And of course the cops were trying to keep the demonstrators off the roadway thus keeping it clear for traffic - that area is a pig at the best of times and I try to avoid it - and pushing them onto the sidewalk. Seems like a clash was pretty inevitable.

If you're ever in Louisville and want a decent French restaurant and are willing to pay for it, I recommend the Brasserie Provence. About a mile from me and where we go for anniversaries etc.

[Sue U]

If you're ever in Louisville and want a decent French restaurant and are willing to pay for it, I recommend the Brasserie Provence. About a mile from me and where we go for anniversaries etc.

Looks lovely; I'll have the mussels and the Minervois grenache gris.

I do quite a bit of business with folks in Louisville and La Grange, but have never had occasion to actually go there. Someday, maybe.