Riot police officers have arrested several Black Lives Matter protesters blocking roads in Lafayette, Louisiana, following a vigil for a man shot and killed by cops while resisting arrest and trying to “walk away.”
Crowds of activists gathered on Saturday evening at the Shell gas station along Evangeline Thruway, where Trayford Pellerin, 31, was shot and killed Friday night.
Protestors have formed a arm-linked chain across NE Evangeline Thurway at Willow Street. pic.twitter.com/FDl4dfmUOd
Police declared the gathering “unlawful,” making several arrests and using smoke grenades to disperse the remaining crowd, according to the Acadiana Advocate reporter Katie Gagliano.
Pellerin was shot nearly a dozen times after Lafayette Police Department officers responded to a disturbance call about “a man with a knife” at a gas station around 8pm Friday, and later died in a hospital.
This is what was deployed into the crowd earlier. At first launch protestors believed it might be tear gas but it was some kind of smoke bang. pic.twitter.com/CXXkH2ILOa
Denouncing the incident as yet another glaring example of systemic racism, BLM activists and a local ACLU brach branded it a cold-blooded “murder”, and accused police of escalating a “routine encounter” into a “deadly shooting spree.”
Meanwhile, in Lafayette, Louisiana, cops murder another Black man, shooting him 11 times in the back as he walks away
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