Citizen Joe

Friday night (May 29), a rioter - different than a demonstrator -  shattered a window and lobbed a firebomb into the building I work in. Fire suppression system did its thing, and damage was contained to a couple of tables.

Over the course of the week, LMPD engaged in some pretty heinous action. Destroying first aid supplies and stations, shooting news crews with pepper balls and tear gas, and otherwise needlessly escalating peaceful demonstrations into violent responses.

We were under a dusk-to-dawn curfew for a few nights, and that seemed to calm things down.

KSP and the Kentucky National Guard were deployed during the demonstrations. Seeing Humvees set up to block intersections at Jefferson Square Park - on Liberty Street, for all your irony needs - while a Huey helicopter orbited overhead was pretty damned surreal, and my buddy Gabriel, a veteran of both Afghanistan and Iraq said he didn't have the words to express his feelings on seeing Humvees deployed on American soil.

SpaceX got the first manned Crew Dragon flight up. Perfect launch, orbital insertion, booster recovery, and ISS docking.