Police have fatally shot a knife wielding African-American just three short miles from the site of Michael Brown’s Ferguson, MO, shooting, according to press reports breaking from the region.
NBC News is reporting a heavy police prescience on the scene.
African-American protester shot by the police, brandished a knife
The protester brandished a knife, Sam Dotson, police chief of the St. Louis metropolitan force noted, before he was killed.
According to KTVI TV in St. Louis, the man walked into a store with a weapon visible and police were called. When the man walked out of the store he was...


