Fox News reports that the officer fired a foam round into the crowd during that incident.
Richard Ross Wiedo, a former Louisville police officer, admitted that he fired a foam round into the crowd during the event. He even admitted that the foam round hit one of the protestors in the face. He also said he fired another foam round after someone threw a bottle at him. The Department of Justice reported that Wiedo could not identify who had thrown the bottle at him.
Wiedo pled guilty to a misdemeanor count of using unreasonable force. According to Fox News reporting, this carries a penalty of up to a $100,000 fine. The plea agreement also requires that he gives up his certification to be a police officer and that he does not seek another role in law enforcement in the future.
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The incident occurred on May 30, 2020, during the nationwide protests after George Floyd’s killing. The two officers involved in Floyd’s death received sentences for significant crimes related to that incident.
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Fox News reports that the nationwide protests in 2020 caused at least $2 billion in property damage nationwide. The Insurance Information Institute came up with that estimate and said all that damage happened in just a few weeks. That is a significant amount of damage to have occurred in such a short time.
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Another former Louisville police officer, Katie Crews, was also sentenced for using excessive force during the Black Lives Matter protests. In her case, she received two years of probation for her crimes. Crews got fired from the police force in 2020 for a completely different offense in which she mocked protestors on social media via her personal social media accounts, Fox News reports.
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