Organizers said many protesters put tape over their mouths to symbolize the way police brutality silences African Americans.
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“Tonight was about listening and being open”. “They are telling us not to be violent, but they are being violent against us”. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Further protests are expected Monday.
But officers on Sunday streamed onto a skinny residential street in Beauregard Town, some with their hands near the triggers of military-style rifles, others manning armored vehicles, one of which was seen driving slowly into protesters’ bodies.
Demonstrators gathered for a fifth consecutive night, blocking the road outside a mall in Buckhead before marching to the governor’s mansion, where they were staging a sit-in.
Police said they have dashcam video, bodycam video and store surveillance footage of the shooting that will be turned over to the Justice Department. A former probation officer, Kraska has worked with over 70 police departments on training and reforms.
The Baton Rouge police spokesman can not comment on pending lawsuit. Among those arrested was prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson.
“I just need you people to know”.
“Our babies our dying because their basketball goals are falling apart”, said Rev. DeVante Hill, who was on the panel with the mayor. Bachman told The Atlantic that Evans did not resist and that the police did not “drag her off”.
“I’ve been impressed with Mike Rallings for years”, Strickland said during the raucous meeting.
“I’m very upset”, she told CBS News.
Police made almost 200 arrests in Louisiana’s capital city during weekend protests, which are growing across the country as people express outrage over deaths at the hands of police.
Riot police in full gear stopped protesters in Baton Rouge from walking onto an interstate on Sunday evening, police said, thwarting a protest tactic that social justice activists have increasingly tried in several US cities. It also says that “failure to comply with the warning can result in an arrest”.
“The individuals involved in his murder took away a man with children who depended upon their daddy on a daily basis”, she said, adding that he “simply tried to earn a living to take care of his children”.
“But we want to do it in a legal way, as well. And that there were no casualties that I have witnessed first hand”.
District Attorney, citing a conflict of interests, has chosen to distance himself from the federal investigation into the shooting of a man who was killed by police last week. He emphasized that numerous protests, and reactions by police, have been peaceful. “I think we could get a lot of answers from that”.
Amnesty International questioned the high number of arrests during Saturday’s protests and whether it was a “proportionate response to peaceful protests”. “Please keep violence at home”.
Tensions have been rising since last week’s killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minnesota by white officers, and an attack on police by a black sniper in Dallas that killed five officers.
Identified as Ieshia Evans, the woman who made headlines after she was confronted by armed police officers dressed in riot gear during a peaceful protest in Baton Rouge, says her arrest was the “work of God”.
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The 31-year-old Mckesson was arrested Saturday on a charge of obstructing a highway. Another 124 protesters were arrested.
