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[h=4]Fatal police shooting of African man criticized[/h]Deng Manyoun, 35, was shot outside a smoke shop after swinging a flag pole at an officer.
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A Louisville cop is on administrative leave following the fatal shooting of a black man. Store surveillance video captured the whole thing, including the suspect hitting the officer with a flagpole. VPC
Police investigating shooting at 3rd and Oak Streets on Saturday, June 13, 2015.(Photo: WHAS photo)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad was holding a press conference Sunday afternoon to discuss the fatal police shooting of a black man in Old Louisville Saturday, said Chris Poynter, spokesman for Mayor Greg Fischer.
"The chief and the mayor have been in constant contact since a few minutes after this incident happened," Poynter said. "For now, it is a matter of fact finding. The mayor wants to know everything that happened."
The unidentified police officer remains on administrative leave pending an investigation of the shooting in front of the Smoker's Smoke Shop on Fourth Street near Oak Street.
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Louisville police defend shooting of African man
The man shot and killed Saturday by a police officer on Fourth Street in Old Louisville has been identified as Deng Manyoun, 35, according to the Jefferson County Coroner, WHAS11 reported Sunday.
Manyoun died as a result of gunshots from the officer at University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3 p.m. Manyoun lived in Old Louisville, deputy Jefferson County coroner Robert D. Jones said Sunday.
Louisville activists were also meeting on Sunday, organizer Shanelle Helm said. Discussed on Twitter using the hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, police brutality has been the focus of weekly "Stand Up Sunday" meetings since August in the wake of the killing of a black man and protests in Ferguson, Mo., Helm added.
Store surveillance video Sunday shows a stumbling Manyoun walk away from the officer on Oak Street. Manyoun than reappears in the video holding a flag pole and swings at the officer, who has drawn his gun from its holster. While Manyoun lurches away from the officer and appears unsteady on his feet in the surveillance video, an official coroner's toxicology report will not be released "for about six weeks," Jones said Sunday.
Activists want to know why the Louisville police officer "did not use other weapons on his belt," Helm said, to subdue Manyoun, including "a taser, mace, or his baton."
"The officer went first to kill a man with his gun. He did not subdue him," Helm said.
Community members are calling on police to release the names of police officers and witnesses at the scene, she added, as well as all related evidence and video.
The officer's reaction could be understood, she added, if Manyoun was "a criminal with a gun."
"You're telling me you can't defeat a person with a flag pole who seems to be intoxicated?" she said. "An officer is supposed to be trained to protect people. He lost all type of control."
Manyoun "was cussing" on the sidewalk, Smoker's Smoke Shop manager Khalil Qteifan said in an interview Saturday. Armed with the flagpole, Qteifan described what happened next between Manyoun and the police officer.
"He swing it one time, he shot him... He backed up and he tried to swing the second time and he shot him again."
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