Protesters risk infection to 'do whatever it takes' Published on June 08, 2020 at 04:42AM by Marc Fisher, Peter Jamison and Ava Wallace, The Washington Post WASHINGTON - In the middle of the night, as some of the first protests raged in Louisville, Ky., Shae Smith and her husband, Walt, decided to break out of their pandemic isolation and take to the streets. "We were actually in bed and I finally woke Walt up and said, 'Babe, I think you need to go down there,' " Shae recalled. " 'You need to see what's going on, we need to be a part of this.' " At 2:15 a.m., Walt went downtown to see, to make a statement. The Smiths had talked and talked about the virus; they knew joining the protests against police brutality meant a higher risk of being infected. They took the risk to give their 10-year-old son a chance at a future in which he is not "walking around with the spirit of fear," Shae said. They took the risk because after dea