People gather for Prayer Vigil organized by Myron Smothers at Memorial Tower on the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge, La., Monday.
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Sterling was shot six times in the chest.
After a lengthy standoff, more police in full riot gear moved in, pinning some of the protesters as others fled. It states that Sterling had permission from Muflahi to sell CDs outside his store. But over the weekend, numerous photos and videos began circulating of police in riot gear aggressively chasing and arresting protesters for reasons that remain unclear.
More protestors demonstrating with large signs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 10. Mckesson told Couric that protesters were acting “calm and peaceful”, and that “police created the conflict that night”.
Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was killed Tuesday by two white police officers.
The convenience-store owner who witnessed the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling last week is alleging in a lawsuit that Baton Rouge police officers illegally took surveillance footage from his store. Police made almost 200 arrests over the weekend in Baton Rouge.
“It’s better that DOJ do their work”.
Monday’s demonstration was organized over social media by teenage girls who said they were determined to keep it peaceful.
“While I appreciate the peaceful intent of this weekend’s rallies, I’d ask that we not put our fellow citizens or law enforcement at risk – which is exactly what attempting to block highways does”, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in a statement. He said Sterling was not holding a gun during the shooting but that he saw officers remove one from his pocket afterward.
On Sunday (10Jul16), Solange joined in in Baton Rouge. Services will be at the Southern University F.G. Clark Activity Center.
The police then allegedly took Muflahi’s cellphone, which he had used to record the shooting, and detained him in the back of a police vehicle, according to the lawsuit.
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.
“We’re going to do as good job as we can, as quickly as we can, to try to go through the (police) reports as they come in”, East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar C. Moore III said.
The group said it will read the names of people killed by police and the names of the officers killed in Dallas. I was there. Every time they were going through one of the worst moments in their lives… Conservatives said it also was necessary to protect the Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure of legal gun owners. The woman peacefully facing off against policemen at a Saturday, July 9, Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana – as seen in a now-viral, instantly iconic photo – has been identified as 28-year-old Ieshia Evans.
In an interview with USA Today, not long after his release from a Louisiana jail after he and 100 others were arrested while protesting, McKesson said those who don’t agree with the movement will do “everything in their power” to discredit it.
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The Baton Rouge Police Department handed over the investigation into the shooting to the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation a day after the shooting.
