Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer fired Police Chief Steve Conrad after discovering that the officers involved in a shooting that killed a male early Monday amidst troubled protests rocking the Kentucky city did not turn on their body cams.
” This kind of institutional failure will not be tolerated,” Fischer stated at a Monday afternoon interview. “Accordingly, I have relieved primary Conrad of his duties.”
Conrad was due to retire later this month. He leaves earlier than prepared as a new debate clouds a police department currently dealing with concerns and mounting neighborhood rage over the March killing by officers of Breonna Taylor, a Black 26- year-old EMT shot as she lay in bed.
Prior to Monday’s lethal shooting of David McAtee, the 53- year-old owner of a local dining establishment, seven individuals were shot and wounded in Thursday protests in the city stimulated both by the killing of a Black guy, George Floyd, by a white Minneapolis policeman and the anger over Taylor’s death.
Fischer on Monday used his “deepest condolences” to McAtee’s household. ” David was a buddy to lots of, a popular barbecue