Officers found a gun in Sterling’s pocket, police told WBRZ.
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“The police never knew the video existed”, he said.
“What we’re going to do today is root out the one percent of bad police officers that go around becoming the judge, the jury and the executioner of innocent people”.
“Something is profoundly wrong when so many Americans have reason to believe that our country doesn’t consider them as precious as others because of the colour of their skin”, – presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
They’re among the various audio and video recordings being turned over to investigators looking into this latest case of alleged police brutality against a black man. Its most recent video, capturing a police shooting that killed a black man outside a convenience store, has reverberated far beyond Louisiana’s capital.
“I’m heartbroken. It’s outrageous”.
Abdul Muflahi, who owns the store and knew Sterling, said he saw the shooting happen.
“Every time you see Alton, he’s smiling”, Larry Sterling said.
A steady crowd of protestors and supporters swelled to thousands during a vigil Wednesday night that held in front of the scene where Sterling died. Community leaders and Sterlings family demanded a federal investigation.
Many people stayed hours after the service and a brass band joined a large, peaceful nighttime march circling the store. He said his mother, Veda Sterling Washington, and her sister Sandra Sterling raised Alton Sterling, his two younger sisters and younger brother.
While demonstrators take to the streets to protest Sterling’s shooting, professional athletes have voiced their outrage on social media. “I have very serious concerns”.
There was no immediate statement from presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
In the shooting Tuesday, authorities would not say whether one or both officers fired their weapons or how many times.
Similar investigations, which often take many months, were opened following the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in NY. Harrowing footage shows the officers holding down Sterling and shooting him six times in his back and chest. The video jerks away from the scene after the first two shots are fired.
Someone yelled, “He’s got a gun!”. At one point, a person in the vehicle asks, They shot him? as a woman can be heard crying. Sterling was shot and killed while pinned down by the officers.
But, on Tuesday night, someone called 911 claiming that Sterling had threatened them with a gun.
Sterling, a convicted felon, wouldn’t be permitted to legally have a gun.
“Like you, I am demanding answers”, Dabadie said, adding that there was “a lot we do not understand” while he promised a “thorough, just, transparent, independent investigation” that would be led by the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office. He said he used the nickname “Big Boy” for Sterling.
Baton Rouge police spokesman, Cpl.
Court records show Sterling had several criminal convictions since the mid-1990s, for battery, resisting arrest, burglary and other crimes. He was a registered sex offender after spending close to four years in prison for felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
But family and friends say he was a friendly man who worked hard.
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Quinyetta McMillan, the mother of Sterling’s 15-year-old son, said police acted “unjustly” by killing a man who “simply tried to earn a living and take care of his children”.
