McMillon and her son, Cameron Sterling, 15, appeared at a rally outside Baton Rouge’s City Hall after Sterling, 37, was fatally shot Tuesday during a struggle with two police officers outside a convenience store.
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Protesters have gathered for three nights at the Triple S Food Mart where Sterling was shot to death as they tried to make sense of recent events, including a fatal shooting in Minnesota, in which Philando Castile’s girlfriend streamed video to Facebook after he was shot by a police officer Wednesday.
And then on to the other side of the street.
Kardashian urged Black Lives Matter activists to demonstrate their feelings in a peaceful and nonviolent manner. Police holding a line in opposite side of a drainage ditch & across Airline. “Peace is the most important”, he said.
The incident sparked a wave of protests in Ferguson which spread to other United States cities.
“Should we shut down Georgetown?” “Sterling’s past will be laid bare, every misdeed brought to light and used as justification for police officers choosing to act as judge, jury and executioner – due process in a parking lot”. In December 2014, John Crawford, another young black man, was shot by police for carrying a pellet air rifle around Walmart’s sporting goods section.
The killing of the officers, and the wounding of seven others, came just days after two high-profile incidents in which black men were killed by police officers in different parts of the country – their deaths caught on video.
“These are horror movies shot on cell phones, in real time”, said Frazier.
It is a dark irony that he apparently chose to take out his fury by attacking officers who were on duty at a large peaceful protest against those very killings.
Protesters look on after police officers arrest a bystander following the shootings. But predictably enough, some people found ripe excuses to justify the officers’ violence: Sterling and Castile were both allegedly armed with guns.
The national head of the NAACP said he is exhausted of victims of police shootings being treated as “hashtag tragedies” instead of human beings mourned by their families.
Jeanine Bell, an Indiana University professor who authored “Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime”, said the week will not go down as a pivotal point unless it leads to substantive change by police that goes beyond simply diversifying forces and introducing anti-bias training. Rhodesia Muhammad observed the support that the community expressed for the incident such as honking their auto horns as they passed the site of the killing.
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Richard Carbo, spokesman for Gov. Edwards, said the US attorney’s office in Baton Rouge will look into not only whether civil rights were violated, but also any other violations of state and federal law. Figures found that 2015 was one of the safest years for law enforcement in a quarter of a century.
