3 Shreveport Cops Placed On Leave After Shooting Death Of Joseph Taylor

This hap­pens every god­dam day in America, a coun­try with expo­nen­tial­ly more guns than peo­ple. Yey when police ini­ti­ate traf­fic stops they end up killing peo­ple. Having a per­mit still does not guar­an­tee safe­ty from the bloodhounds.

Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith has placed three police offi­cers on admin­is­tra­tive leave fol­low­ing a fatal shoot­ing on April 23^rd, 2023. 
Just after 9:30 p.m. April 23, Shreveport Community Response Unit con­duct­ed a traf­fic stop at Valley View Drive and Mansfield Road. 
During that traf­fic stop offi­cers encoun­tered Joseph Dewayne Taylor, 33, who was armed. Police said that a strug­gle ensued, and an offi­cer fired. 

SPD said at the scene the offi­cer fired one shot, how­ev­er, Taylor was shot mul­ti­ple times and was trans­port­ed to Ochsner LSU Health where he was pro­nounced dead at 9:57 p.m. 
Sergeant Daniel Denby, Officer Terri Simmons, and Officer Anthony Visciotti were placed on admin­is­tra­tive leave imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the April 23^rd inci­dent. The inves­ti­ga­tion into this inci­dent has been turned over to the Louisiana State Police.