The video shows Alton Sterling pinned to the ground by police outside a convenience store, before being fatally shot.
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In the lawsuit, it alleges that officers used excessive force, wrongful arrests, and both physical and verbal abuse to break up the protests.
Cameron Sterling urged protesters to remain peaceful. There should be no more arguments, disagreements, violence, crimes-everyone should come together as one united family.
“And it was like at that moment I knew: my daddy’s here – he’s right on the side of her, we’re standing here as a family together once again”.
THE American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Baton Rouge police on Wednesday over their alleged mistreatment of demonstrators protesting at police brutality last weekend.
Nearly 200 people were arrested during several protests in Baton Rouge over the weekend. I feel that everyone, yes, you can protest, but I want everyone to protest the right way.
According to NOLA.com, “protesters expressed disbelief that police would break up what had largely been a peaceful protest leading up to the arrests”.
Protesters say they were inspired to protest by cases around the country of police killing young black men.
“That was a sacrifice to show everyone what has been going on in life”, Cameron said outside the convenience store where his father was shot and killed.
The press conference on Wednesday is Cameron’s first since he broke into sobs at a nationally broadcast press conference with his mother, following his father’s death.
The civil rights action was filed by the ACLU and organizations whose members have participated in and witnessed protests in Baton Rouge following Sterling’s death on July 5, the complaint stated. However, they used the plot to kill officers, which they described as “real, credible evidence” that police were under a serious threat, as their justification for how law enforcement had handled protests in the city over the weekend.
As the woman stood motionless, two of the officers, clad all in black armor and moving swiftly in tandem, reached the woman, grabbed her by the arms and pulled her back behind the line of riot police.
The officer asked Sterling to put his hand on the hood of his police auto and asked if Sterling had any weapons on him.
“There is always a struggle with change, and there must be change in policing”, Stewart said.
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The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, asks a judge to order the Baton Rouge police, the Louisiana State Police and other law enforcement agencies and public officials “from ordering individuals who are violating no law to refrain from gathering on public sidewalks”.
