“Y’all have guns. We have posters!”
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Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office and Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office went out to the protest on Airline Hwy to help assist BRPD, Louisiana State Police and East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Suspect Eric Harris, shot multiple times, died in the February 8 incident, which has resulted in a pending FBI investigation.
“Black lives matter” protests sprang up in several USA cities.
Protests against the shootings of two black men by police officers shut down main arteries in a number of United States cities on Saturday, leading to numerous arrests, scuffles and injuries in confrontations between police and demonstrators. Hundreds more broke off from Pittsburgh’s 200th-anniversary parade to protest the recent police shootings. More protests were planned throughout the weekend.
One protester, 29-year-old Damond Laurance, said: “It’s everything adding up”. When I see the victims of police brutality memorialized in hashtags like #SandraBland, I am reminded that it could just as easily be my name serving as a rallying cry on social media.
“I want my children to grow up knowing that their lives matter”. “Reggie is okay”, she said cryptically. He says he’s confident protests in the city will “continue in a peaceful, lawful manner” throughout the weekend.
Court records show Sterling also was arrested in May 2009 after an officer confronted him outside a store where he was selling CDs.
The Democratic governor appeared at the event with Quinyetta McMillon, the mother of one of Sterling’s sons, and one of Sterling’s aunts.
“After the Dallas murder of five officers at a protest the night before officers are very cautious and on the lookout for any threat”, Dunnam’s statement said. He urged protesters in Louisiana to “keep the conversation constructive”. “They are not operating as human beings”.
Cornell William Brooks is president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sterling, 37, was shot and killed out… Sterling and Castile were both shot by police this week.
A police officer on a microphone told the crowd that as long as they stayed on the grass and not on the road they could remain. Like the rest of America, we are sickened by the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas, and the death of Philando Castile before that, and the death of Alton Sterling before that. “I told him not to reach for it!” Police say he was armed and an eyewitness said police pulled a gun out of his pocket. She said it’s one of her best memories.
McMillon described Sterling as a good father to their son Cameron, calling them the “Doublemint twins” because they liked to eat snacks together.
Asked about how the shootings reflect on race relations across the nation, McMillon said she didn’t want Sterling’s shooting to “be a race thing”. They marched down a major street, closely watched by police officers yelling: “If we don’t get no justice, we don’t get no peace”.
The demonstrations protested Tuesday’s shooting of Alton Sterling, whose death was captured on cellphone video.
After the shooting deaths of two black men by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota on consecutive days this week, reigniting nationwide anguish over what many activists consider racial injustice, the situation somehow deteriorated into even more pain for even more families Thursday.
(BEG ITAL)Black man shot by white police officer.(END ITAL) How many times must we read those words? “Our hearts break for the families of the officers who were lost as they protected protesters and residents alike during a rally”.
A documentary crew arrived to the Triple S Food Mart just in time to record the shooting of Alton Sterling on a cell phone.
Nothing seemed quite right – everything was too cheap, too boilerplate, too small for the impact that these deaths have on every person who values black life.
The Baton Rouge Police Department didn’t respond to the claim.
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Thousands have protested across the USA over police killings of black men for a fifth straight day, with several people – including a prominent activist – arrested for violence and disruption.
