{"id":67523,"date":"2021-05-04T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67523"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:01:22","slug":"67523","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67523","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/black-lives-matter-protest-restaurant-kentucky-patron-gun\/\">Gun Standoff Ensues During Protest Between BLM Activists And Restaurant Patrons Who Just Weren\u2019t Having It<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter activists and patrons brandished guns at each other after a demonstration entered a restaurant\u2019s dining area Saturday evening in Louisville, Kentucky, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 50 protesters stopped at La Chasse restaurant and began to harass restaurant patrons, according to a Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HayesGardner\/status\/1388654615584034818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a>. Video footage captured a man pointing his gun at the protestors from the outdoor dining area, the Courier Journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/local\/2021\/05\/01\/kentucky-derby-protests-demonstrators-walk-breonna-taylor-others\/4888852001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified woman was filmed as she physically moved protesters away and shooed them from the restaurant tables. Several protesters took videos on their phones as she repeatedly shouted \u201ckeep going\u201d and gestured them to move away from an armed man.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Confrontation between patrons at La Chasse and protesters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iUFKA9zWvY\">pic.twitter.com\/iUFKA9zWvY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hayes Gardner (@HayesGardner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HayesGardner\/status\/1388654615584034818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) arrived at the restaurant at about 8:35 p.m., five minutes after the protesters arrived, the Courier Journal reported. La Chasse restaurant is about five miles northeast of Churchill Downs,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/video-gun-toting-restaurant-patron-blm-protesters-louisville?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a>\u00a0to TheBlaze.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LMPD said to Daily Caller that they received a call from a restaurant employee about a group of protesters. The employee also told police \u201cthat multiple armed protesters entered the \u2026 outdoor dining space. During the encounter both patrons and protesters brandished firearms.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 20 minutes prior to the confrontation at La Chasse, police officers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LMPD.ky\/videos\/165566508807005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested<\/a>\u00a0at least three protesters for refusing to leave the roadway, Courier Journal reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun Standoff Ensues During Protest Between BLM Activists And Restaurant Patrons Who Just Weren\u2019t Having It Black Lives Matter activists and patrons brandished guns at each other after a demonstration entered a restaurant\u2019s dining area Saturday evening in Louisville, Kentucky, according to police. Approximately 50 protesters stopped at La Chasse restaurant and began to harass &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67525,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67523\/revisions\/67525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}