{"id":209669,"date":"2020-07-02T07:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T07:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209669"},"modified":"2020-07-04T06:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T06:41:57","slug":"louisville-photographer-supportive-of-black-lives-matter-killed-by-activist-who-shot-into-protest-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209669","title":{"rendered":"Louisville photographer supportive of Black Lives Matter killed by activist who shot into protest camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hide Out Now \u2013 July 1, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-209670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tyler-Gerth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tyler-Gerth.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tyler-Gerth-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A photographer who was sympathetic to Black Lives Matter and who had been documenting protests in Louisville, Kentucky, was shot and killed in a protest camp Saturday night when one protester fired into the camp, allegedly due to a conflict with another protester, the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/local\/2020\/06\/28\/breonna-taylor-jefferson-square-park-shooting-victim-identified\/3274412001\/\">Courier Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tyler Gerth, 27, was reportedly shot in the face as an innocent bystander when<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2020\/06\/28\/louisville-breonna-taylor-protest-shooting-suspect-identified\/3274385001\/\">Steven Nelson Lopez showed up at the protest camp<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and fired his gun into the air before shooting into the camp. Other armed bystanders returned fire at Lopez, shooting him in the leg and preventing further potential casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Lopez had been a participant in the Louisville protests for at least the previous 12 days, having been sighted there multiple times by protesters and reporters. He has been charged with murder and first-degree wanton endangerment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Other protesters said Lopez had been escorted away from the camp multiple times leading up to the Saturday night shooting after getting into altercations. Lopez had previously been arrested on June 17 for inciting a riot and disorderly conduct. He was armed with two fully loaded handguns at the time of his previous arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A witness recorded video of Lopez shooting into the crowd on Saturday<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CONTENT WARNING: This video of today\u2019s shooting at Jefferson Square Park was pulled from the FB livestream of one of Louisville\u2019s more vocal protesters. Absolutely horrifying to see. To my friends, coworkers and anybody else down there, please be vigilant. Please be safe. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AT8PiOIKrG\">pic.twitter.com\/AT8PiOIKrG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Boyle (@JBernardBoyle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JBernardBoyle\/status\/1277062739639316480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Gerth was a photographer who regularly posted pictures of Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of Breonna Taylor&#8217;s death at the hands of Louisville Metro Police. He was apparently not the target of Lopez&#8217;s attack on the protest camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Tyler was incredibly kind, tender-hearted and generous, holding deep convictions and faith,&#8221; Gerth&#8217;s family wrote in a statement. &#8220;It was this sense of justice that drove Tyler to be part of the peaceful demonstrations advocating for the destruction of the systemic racism within our society&#8217;s systems. This, combined with his passion of photography led to a strong need within him to be there, documenting the movement, capturing and communicating the messages of peace and justice.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WwEx3EzENM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hideoutnow.com\/2020\/07\/louisville-photographer-supportive-of.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer shot and killed after gun fight erupts between two armed BLM protesters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209671,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209669\/revisions\/209671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}