Her face lighting up with a slight smile as she talked, McMillon said Alton Sterling was close to their son.
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The documents were released a day after the Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, who was killed by police during an altercation outside of a convenience store where he was selling CDs.
Beyonce is the latest celebrity to speak out against police injustice, in the wake of recent shootings caught on video.
“As people of faith, we turn to the Lord in challenging times, seeking not only his consolation and healing but also his wisdom and guidance”, he said in a statement Wednesday.
However, he said, pursuing those sorts of federal-level charges can be very hard, especially because prosecutors have to show that the officers intentionally tried to deprive Sterling of civil rights.
“McMillon: “There’s no revenge in that. It’s not right. That’s not how it works”.
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Bernazzani said that evidence will then be sent to Washington, DC, where they will consider whether or not to pursue charges against the two officers.
This is a country, in the summer of 2016, where no one is ever allowed to see both sides of any issue. The war on people of colour and minorities needs to be over. “We gonna pray first, but we gonna stand tonight”. Xavier Burgin, who started the campaign, says the funds will go to Castile’s mother, Valerie. Each had two “use of force” complaints. These are problems that have to be addressed, but there is a way, a correct way to handle it.
The deaths have sparked fresh demonstrations in the United States and President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the killings were “an American issue that we should all care about”. Insane this even needs to be said. “I have confidence in the men and women working to protect the people of this city, their moral ethic, the skills they possess, and their ability to make appropriate decisions in hard situations”. It has to come to an end. We still have kids that have to grow up. They plan to have kids. Mayor Mike Rawlings said one member of the public was wounded in the gunfire. “The irony is that the officers lost their lives protecting the right to peacefully protest”.
Regardless of how angry or upset people may be, resorting to this kind of sickening violence should never happen and simply can not be tolerated.
The President also took the opportunity during his speech to attempt to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
Responding to violence with violence is not the answer.
Five police officers were killed by snipers at one in Dallas on Thursday night.
In the video, which appears to be shot from inside a nearby parked auto, one of two police officers outside the store can be seen tackling a man in a red shirt and wrestling him to the ground.
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Sharida Sterling, Sterling’s cousin who said he was more like a brother to her, told The Advocate about her strong skepticism over claims that Sterling took action against the cops.
