A 23 year old black man was shot and killed by police in St. Louis today. He was wielding a knife, and reportedly told cops “shoot me now, kill me now.” After multiple times of the cop telling the man to drop his knife, he didn’t and was fatally shot. No name has been released yet of the 23 year old black man who was killed by police today near Ferguson. We’ll see if this gets the leftists and black race hustlers going in the tinderbox of Ferguson.
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Police in St. Louis are investigating an officer-involved shooting Tuesday in the city’s sixth district, which is east of where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a St. Louis County police officer in the suburb of Ferguson, Missouri.
St. Louis police say officers shot and killed a 23-year-old man who was wielding a knife and refused to drop it shortly before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Police Chief Sam Dotson said officers responded to Tuesday to a store where the man was reported to have stolen energy drinks and a pastry. No officers were injured in the incident, Dotson said.
Dotson said the man was acting erratically and told responding officers to “shoot me now, kill me now.” He said officers opened fire when the man began approaching them with the kn