More than 200 people have been arrested in the past week since two Baton Rouge Police officers shot and killed resident Alton Sterling, who reportedly pointed a gun at another individual, who called the police.
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Law enforcement said at a Tuesday press conference they believe it to be a substantial and credible threat on police officers in the Baton Rouge area.
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Baton Rouge Police Department, alleging officers used excessive force and wrongful arrests to disperse crowds of protesters.
Speakers at Alton Sterling’s funeral are calling for justice in the shooting death of the 37-year-old black man at the hands of two white police officers.
“No more arguments, violence, crimes”, said Cameron.
“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”.
“I witnessed firsthand as peaceful protestors were violently attacked and arrested, assault weapons pointed at them with fingers on the triggers, some dragged across the cement, their clothes ripped off of them”, said Louisiana Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild President and a Catholic nun Alison Renee McCrary “What I saw happening was an immediate threat to life”. Alton Sterling died during a confrontation with police, who have said Sterling was reaching for a gun when he was shot by an officer.
Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie said the arrests help explain the recent show of police force against protesters.
“It’s OK, I’m right here with you”, the little girl told Diamond Reynolds just minutes after the Wednesday night killing.
People pray during Prayer Vigil organized by Myron Smothers at Memorial Tower on the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, July 11, 2016.
Sterling’s death – which was captured on video and quickly went viral – sparked widespread protests.
“Although I am constrained in commenting on the particular facts of these cases, I am encouraged that the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation in Baton Rouge, and I have full confidence in their professionalism and their ability to conduct a thoughtful, thorough, and fair inquiry”.
And, I truly feel that my father was a good man and he will always be a good man. But, at the same time, he has a lot of loved ones out here that are really here to support me, my mother, the rest of my brothers and sisters and my father.
First he told CBS News that not all police officers are “bad”, adding that while “there are some that are bad, but all aren’t bad”. “Will the attorney general give them fairness?”
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Cameron cried during the first press conference after his fathers death, but he was calm today. “You have to make things better by making peace”.
