By Paul Best
Fox News
August 22, 2020
Louisiana police shot and killed a man accused of wielding a knife at a store Friday night in Lafayette.
Officers from the Lafayette Police Department were
called to a convenience store at 8 p.m. Friday about a man with a knife,
the Louisiana State Police said.
When officers tried to apprehend him, he fled. State police said they initially tried to tase Pellerin, but it was ineffective.
Several cops closed in on him and at least 10 shots can be heard in the video. The state police said he was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
The ACLU of Louisiana called it “a horrific and deadly incident of police violence against a Black person who was brutally killed in front of our eyes.”
“None of our communities are safe when the police can murder people with impunity or when routine encounters escalate into deadly shooting sprees,” Alanah Odoms Hebert, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, said in a statement.
“The ACLU of Louisiana will continue to demand justice for this brutal killing and push for reforms that will end the epidemic of police violence once and for all.”
According to an ACLU report released this week, 10 people in Louisiana have been shot and killed by police in 2020.
The Louisiana State Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.
1 comment:
Armed man is heading AWAY from the cops but towards the front door of an open business where they will be at a minimum one or more employees, plus possibly customers who will be placed at risk. Based on limited information available at this time I am on the cops side on this one.
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