The riot police were lined up, shields down, protecting their faces, with shields and batons in their hands.
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“The movement didn’t cause anything, the police killing people is what caused all of this”.
Moore suggested that “first offenders” and people who may have just “stepped over a line” could have their cases resolved more quickly than those for protesters accused of carrying guns or injuring officers.
On July 5, officers responded to a convenience store about 12:35 a.m. after an anonymous caller indicated a man selling music CDs and wearing a red shirt threatened him with a gun, Baton Rouge police have said. “I’m stunned at the behavior of police officers that utilized, from what I understand, the ability to take someone that I guess they targeted that was actually on the street, to bombard my yard and bombard my house”.
There has been new developments in the investigation into the death of Alton Sterling, the black man who was fatally shot while pinned to the ground by two Baton Rouge police officers in front of a convenience store last week.
“Yesterday evening we were standing here… and they just started coming and attacking the crowd for no reason”, Ms Carter said of the police.
“I knew it was a good frame and it was something that would tell a story”, Bachman said about the moment his lens captured the image of Ieshia Evans, a nurse from Pennsylvania, before she was arrested. Organizers said many protesters put tape over their mouths to symbolize the way police brutality silences African Americans. State and local officials have said they will not allow protesters to be in the streets, in part to protect them from traffic.
Evans’ Facebook page says she has been inundated with media requests after the photo’s publication.
A list released Monday by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sherriff’s office shows that 38 of the 50 people arrested at protests that began Sunday are from Louisiana.
Bachman told the BBC that he was photographing demonstrators outside the Baton Rouge police headquarters when he saw the woman step onto the road.
Traffic on Interstate 40 was blocked in both directions for hours after hundreds of angry Black Lives Matter protesters marched onto the bridge to show their anger about police killings of black people.
The owner of the store where Alton Sterling was shot and killed last week is suing police officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department and the city of Baton Rouge for illegal seizure and detainment following the incident, according to a lawsuit filed Monday with the 19th Judicial District Court.
The demonstrations in Chicago in recent days have been relatively peaceful, though police scuffled with some protesters Saturday, resulting in 16 arrests.
In Louisiana, some 2,000 people rallied Sunday outside the Capitol building, State Police Maj.
But Friday, tensions ratcheted up.
Prominent “Black Lives Matter” organizer DeRay McKesson strongly defended the movement after a deadly ambush on law enforcement in Dallas that many have linked to anti-police brutality protests.
Sgt. Don Coppola, a police spokesman, said the department does not comment on pending litigation.
“To see full blown paramilitary police officers walking… along that armored personnel carrier”, he said. “It’s scarring Baton Rouge”, Douglas said of the police response. Police have confiscated three rifles, three shotguns and two pistols during protests, he wrote in an email.
“He was illegally detained in the back of a locked hot police auto for four to five hours”, Joel Porter, Muflahi’s attorney, told WWL TV. The Justice Department will look into whether the officers willfully violated Sterling’s civil rights through the use of unreasonable or excessive force. However, until the federal investigation has been concluded, the case will not be moving forward.
‘It’s better that DOJ do their work.
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Moore said the decision to recuse himself from the case was “one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in my career”.
