The man, identified as 35-year-old Deng Manyoun, was staggering as if intoxicated when he ignored an officer’s command to drop the 7-foot flagpole. Officer Nathan Blanford, a 10-year veteran of the Louisville police force, shot him dead. [ U.S. co p shoots berserk African "refugee" dead by Leo Hohmann; World Net Daily, June 15th 2015.]

He lived in one of the poorest sections of the city, “where people are just trying to get by,” a local resident who lives in the community, told WND.

Manyoun is a suspected refugee or asylum seeker from Sudan although neither police nor the local media had confirmed his immigration status as of Monday afternoon.

The U.S. State Department has imported thousands of refugees from war-torn Sudan since the 1990s.