Our investigative documentary uncovered a troubling
history of city leaders publicly touting police reform
while allowing the police department to undermine those
promises, scripts, news in partnership with the
Kentucky Center for investigative reporting found
Louisville relied on controversial policing tactics,
did not support officers and fostered a culture of
abuse of the force in the city's majority black
neighborhoods. We found this endangered both officers
on the streets and its black citizens among those
citizens. The DOJ reviewed the case of the killing of
David McAtee, a beloved barbecue owner in the city's
majority black neighborhood dur the summer of 2020
protest. It was one of the central examples in the
model city showing how Louisville's reform efforts had
failed. Here's that story, Davi mcatee A K A. Yeah.
Yeah. The barbecue man. Ya Ya's BBQ was a rare place in
the West end where residents and officers like Dex
Pitts were welcome, man. Felt a lot of people for free
and he took care of officers. I offered him money l
your money's no good here, man. Thank you for what you
do. Thanks for looking after the community. Yeah. Yeah
basically befriended the police. Everybody kept
problems away from her, out of respect for him. We got
crowd out there. It's going down tonight. Marvin mcat
was there helping his uncle David prepare food. He was
focused on getting these ribs on the grill. Not worried
for a second that his life would be in danger as Yaya
was getting ready for the late night food rush. A
convoy of LMP D vans followed by military trucks sho
up. We start seeing the national guards, the Humvee
the big ones, few police cars, police this case, L M P
D sent officers in riot gear and guardsmen with assault
rifles to squash a protest. When in fact, there was
none, there is no such thing as insight in Iraq by the
police. Police jumped out of their vans and almost
immediately an officer fired a pepper ball into the
street in front of ya. Ya's people flooded into the
kitchen for cover. Makati is niece stood in the doorway.
The officer continued to fire pepper balls this time at
her drink cans went flying. Then mccarthy's niece w
hit in the shoulder. He looking at his knees fall back.
Whoever this did this can't be the police in his ask,
not the police, the heat. The Makati leaned out of the
kitchen door with a gun and fired one shot and then he
fired a second shot. L M P D officers and national
Guardsmen responded with a barrage of gunfire. Mcatee
was struck once in the chest but it was too late. David
mcatee was dead. They just killed. Yeah. Yeah. Later
that morning, a crowd gathered at 26 and Broadway
energy was pure disgust. Mccarty's body still laid
inside his barbecue joint, Bishop Lyons and others
tried to restore the peace. How much more do we have to
take You've already killed Briana. Now you got David
laying over there. What else do we have to take where
we're from Right Where we always have that feeling like
they're messing with the DOJ report called what you
just saw one tragic case. It also answered remainin
questions, reporters highlighte in the incident. One
of those was whether David mcatee shot at officers for
the first time. The report confirms what we heard from
community members on the ground all along. And that is
that McAtee fired twice in the air, not at police.