As demonstrations over the police killings of Black people continue around the nation, Louisville, Kentucky, is mourning David McAtee, the much-loved owner of a popular barbecue service, who was fatally shot after cops and the Kentucky National Guard fired into a crowd early Monday morning.
McAtee’s Yaya’s BBQ Shack was a fixture on one of west Louisville’s most popular corners. Crowds gathered there, where he was shot, later Monday to grieve and demand justice.
” I constantly wanted to be in this spot, and when the opportunity came, I took it,” McAtee stated in an interview with the local blog West of Ninth in February. “I have actually constantly been blessed with the skills to cook. I didn’t need anything else. People have to eat each and every single day, and all I require is my abilities.”
Those who understood McAtee, 53, have actually remembered his kindness, kindness and warmth.
” He left a fantastic legend behind. He was a great individual. Everybody around him would say that,” she stated. “My son didn’t harmed nobody.”
Jason Green, a witness to the shooting and a Yaya’s BARBEQUE client, informed local station WLKY, “There’s nothing bad to say about this man.”
From 2018 Neighborhood profile, David McAtee was included: “I’m just grateful for the chance to bless others, if you pass it down you may be in a much better location than before. A lot of us can be selfish and being selfish wont get you far in life.” – Owner of Yaya’s BBQ @WLKY pic.twitter.com/3n798 kT1F9
— Stephon Dingle WLKY (@Stephon_Dingle) June 1, 2020
McAtee was killed after Louisville authorities and National Guard soldiers were sent out to the car park of Dino’s Food Mart at about 12: 15 a.m. to break up a large gathering of people breaching curfew, authorities said.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said in a declaration Monday that while working to disperse a crowd, officers and National Guard members were fired upon and “returned fire resulting in a death.”
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer fired Police Chief Steve Conrad in the future Monday after discovering that the offic