Police have arrested dozens more protesters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during street demonstrations over fatal police shootings.
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Shot by Jonathan Bachman for Reuters, the photograph shows a black woman in profile, standing in the middle of the street as two police officers in riot gear seem to be preparing to arrest her in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
A video, titled “BATON ROUGE HAS TURNED INTO SYRIA”, saw the police crackdown on protests in the city where Alton Sterling, 37, was killed by police last week.
A Baton Rouge police spokesman, Sgt. Don Coppola, has said that protests have become more violent as protesters from other cities arrived in Baton Rouge.
The protests around the USA started on Sunday in response to violent incidents between police and African American people, which included the killing by police of two black men: Philando Castile in St Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Police said 30 were arrested and Friday night, and more than 100 others were held on Saturday.
Police made almost 200 arrests in Louisiana’s capital city during weekend protests around the country in which people angry over police killings of young black men sought to block some major interstates.
Noted activist DeRay Mckesson was arrested while live streaming some of the protest, according to BuzzFeed News.
Hundreds of people blocked the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River on Sunday, a day when people across the country protested police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. Hundreds walked onto I-264 in Portsmouth, Virginia, marooning motorists for hours.
Several hundred people broke off from Pittsburgh’s 200th anniversary parade to protest recent police shootings across the country.
“As tough, as hard, as depressing as the loss of life was this week, we’ve got a foundation to build on”, Obama said in a press conference Saturday.
London resident Aifur Rahman, who described himself on social media as a mathematics graduate, said the event was astonishing in its protest against police shootings in the United States.
Leaders in some local communities have sought to discourage the traffic-blocking tactics.
More than half of the individuals arrested were white females.
In Boston, organizers for Sunday’s demonstration announced on Facebook: “This is a peaceful protest”. “We are listening to their voices”.
Mckesson was filming video of the protest and walking alongside Airline Highway when he was arrested. “Again, I remain deeply disappointed in the Baton Rouge Police Department”.
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Potentially his charges are for obstructing traffic even though everything proves he was behind the white line and was tackled by police behind the white line. Kicking off from Oxford Circus, London, where crowds marched toward the U.S. Embassy chanting “No justice, no peace” and “Hands up”.
