They chanted “black lives matter” and “hands up don’t shoot” and waved signs late into the night, according to the newspaper.
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“We grew up in the same household, from babies up until we was adults and moved out on our own”, Larry Sterling said in a phone interview from Baton Rouge.
She’s angry that he died at the hands of Baton Rouge police early Tuesday.
Relatives of Sterling and acquaintances from the neighborhood described him as a local fixture who had peddled copied CDs, DVDs and games in front of the Triple S Food Mart for years. Past charges include a felony drug offense and aggravated assault.
“I think that the city is going to have to give us some good answers”, said Jordan, who is a Louisiana state legislator.
The US Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into his death.
The source involved in the investigation told CNN that the other videos are not almost as clear as the bystander videos.
The source involved in the investigation said the other videos are not almost as clear as the bystander videos.
The officers involved in the shooting – Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II – have been placed on administrative leave. One included a police shooting in December 2014. Court documents show Lake told detectives that he fired six or seven times when a suspect refused to drop his gun, threatened to kill himself and pointed his revolver at officers. The man was wounded by police.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama is following the situations closely.
The U.S. Justice Department will lead an investigation into the fatal police shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after family and protesters demanded an independent probe, the state’s governor said on Wednesday.
Earnest noted the task force on policing that Obama established to improve ties and trust between police and law enforcement.
Reed said he was a gang leader for years before he became an activist.
Drake feels “truly scared” following the violent shooting of Alton Sterling.
Baton Rouge police have insisted that Alton Sterling, 37 – who had a lengthy rap sheet – was armed when the officers approached him during the confrontation early Tuesday.
There are more than 1,000 deadly shootings by police in the USA each year, and disproportionate numbers of those killed are black Americans.
WTTG-TV (http://bit.ly/29qksr3 ) reports firefighter Norman Brooks made the posts Wednesday. She said the store management never had any problems with the informal stand, but police harassed her cousin. The posts have since been removed.
Graphic video images of Tuesday’s shooting of Alton Sterling, 37, unleashed protests and social media outcry over alleged police brutality against African-Americans in cities from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore and NY.
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From Ferguson, Missouri, to Philadelphia, people turned out to remember the 37-year-old father of five whose death has sparked national outrage as he joined a list of African-Americans who have died in police-involved shootings. “As this video has been shared across the world, you will see with your own eyes how he was handled unjustly and killed without regard for the lives that he helped raise”, said McMillon, the mother of Sterling’s child.
