Police officers in Lafayette, Louisiana have shot and killed a man who resisted arrest and tried to walk into a gas station store “armed with a knife,” triggering a new wave of outrage over police brutality and “systemic racism.”
Lafayette Police Department officers responded to a disturbance call, involving a man with a knife at a Shell gas station around 8pm Friday. When they tried to apprehend the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin, he allegedly ignored repeated orders to surrender as well as several taser shots fired at him.
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