(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). Sepia Greene, of Baton Rouge, La., holds a crucifix in memory of Alton Sterling outside the Triple S Food mart in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, July 11, 2016. People have for days been in Baton Rouge marching over what they believe was the wrongful cop killing of Alton Sterling.
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Baton Rouge protest photo – The photo of an unknown woman participating in the protests held by the Black Lives Matter movement in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has become the face of the struggle between the black Americans and the policea.
Demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Philando Castile march in front of the police department in St. Anthony, Minnesota, on July 10. “They have provoked people”.
Kristy Carter said she’s been protesting every night since Sterling was killed.
“I saw this woman, and she was standing in the first lane in that road”, he said.
Reuters have said the woman in the picture was later detained, however her she has not been named by police. “We were able to stop them before they were able to achieve that”. One officer lost teeth when a projectile was thrown outside police headquarters during the protests. “We have to live in a world where the police don’t kill people, where the police don’t harm people”.
Kira Marrero, a 22-year-old resident of New Orleans who graduated last year from Williams College in MA, was the first protester freed from Baton Rouge’s jail on Sunday.
The affidavit sheds no light on what verbal conversation the officers, who the police chief identified last week as Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake, had with Sterling.
In the Louisiana town of Baton Rouge, officers took about 180 people into custody over the weekend, mostly on misdemeanor charges accusing them of blocking traffic on a major thoroughfare during protests over police shootings of black men. “Protesters/marchers have been nothing but peaceful today in Baton Rouge”.
Louisiana authorities have said repeatedly that they have no problem with protesters and pointed out the number of rallies that have been coordinated with authorities and have gone off without problems.
And as large group returning from their march to the state Capitol filled a main roadway downtown Suday evening, officers in riot gear were deployed again – this time reportedly armed with tear gas grenades and rubber bullets. “But I’m especially gratified that our citizens here in Louisiana, to a very large degree, have chose to protest in a constructive and peaceful manner”.
Governor John Bel Edwards announced on July 6 that there will be an investigation by the Department of Justice into the shooting and the civil rights case is now open as pressure mounts on the police force to find out exactly what happened in Triple S Food Mart and why.
By Friday, tensions ratcheted up.
A weekend of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests culminated in the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators, angry at the latest killings of black men by police officers.
The US embassy of Bahrain, a tiny Middle Eastern island nation, on Saturday urged citizens via twitter to “be cautious of protests or crowded areas occurring around the US”.
The officers in heavy riot gear appear to be reeling backwards from her. “They were ignored”, said Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola. “You better keep walking”.
POWERFUL photo from Baton Rouge. Police confiscated three rifles, three shotguns and two pistols during that protest.
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Video footage showed officers reaching into a crowd and pulling individuals away. The aftermath of the shooting was captured on Facebook Live by his fiancé who was present in the vehicle at the time of the incident. At that time, he says, several police officers ran across the highway and arrested him.
