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The list of those arrested released by the sheriff’s office included two homeless people, and 18 are from out of state, including prominent Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson.
(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. Sterling was shot and killed la. They were calling for justice following last week’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old black man, Alton Sterling, by two white police officers.
He was one of the Black Lives Matter activists and civil rights leaders who met with President Obama at the White House. The station said he was booked on one count of obstruction of the highway. He said the attorney general’s office doesn’t have the level of expertise to do the investigation and the appointment of an outside prosecutor would depoliticize the work.
“Now, I’m walking a mile with them”.
The protest, which started with a march from the governor’s mansion around 8 p.m., was among several demonstrations nationwide that stemmed from the deaths of Castile and Sterling, who was shot after scuffling with the officers outside a convenience store. He cited his professional relationship with the parents of one of the officers involved in the shooting, Blane Salamoni. Services will be at the Southern University F.G. Clark Activity Center.
Edwards said hundreds have marched around the city, with only one injury to an officer and mostly misdemeanor arrests. Video of the shooting, which took place in Baton Rouge on Tuesday, was posted online and set off angry protests. “We wouldn’t arrest people who are quietly protesting off the roadway”.
Tensions between black citizens and police have risen over the past week amid police shootings of African-American men in Minnesota and Louisiana and the gunning down of five white police officers by a black suspect in Dallas in apparent retaliation.
From London and NY to Detroit, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, La., where Sterling was killed, and in St. Paul, Minn., where Castile was murdered in a suburb, many exercised their constitutional rights to peaceful protest as well as civil disobedience, snarling traffic in major cities.
Moore suggested that “first offenders” and people who may have just “stepped over a line” could have their cases resolved more quickly than those of protesters accused of carrying guns or injuring officers. Protesters pelted police in riot gear with rocks, bottles, firecrackers and other objects, and they refused to get off the highway, prompting officers in riot gear to move in just after midnight.
“They are telling us not to be violent, but they are being violent against us”, Carter said of police. “Right now, we’re focusing on what happened to him”. Police said they believe the second protest was executed by an out-of-state group.
In New Orleans, several dozen protesters briefly lay down in front of the police headquarters in a symbolic die-in.
Sterling’s family confirmed that he had a prior history with police including felony arrests.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana said Monday that Baton Rouge police “used violent, militarized tactics on groups of people who have gathered peacefully in protest of Alton Sterling’s killing”.
At one point early in the protest, a police officer on a microphone told the crowd that as long as they stayed on the grass and not on the road they could remain, and then police eventually pulled back and traffic reopened.
Louisiana authorities said a number of rallies coordinated with police have gone off without problems.
On Sunday some 2,000 people rallied outside the Capitol building, State Police Maj.
McKesson, 31, had traveled to Louisiana from Baltimore, where he grew up and returned past year after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man whose broken neck inside a police van sparked riots and upheaval. Don Coppola, Baton Rouge Police Department.
By Friday, tensions ratcheted up. Police have arrested 200 demonstrators over a three-day period and taken to the streets in riot gear, carrying rifles and driving armored vehicles.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Sunday he’s “very proud” of how Louisiana’s law enforcement agencies responded to the protests and that he doesn’t believe police officers have been overly aggressive. In Minnesota, authorities said 21 St Paul police officers and six state troopers were hurt and about 100 people were arrested late on Saturday and early Sunday during clashes over the police killing of Philando Castile.
During a confrontation Sunday evening near an interstate ramp, a police officer in an armored vehicle had warned protesters over a loudspeaker that they would be arrested if they didn’t leave the area. They got a job to do.
Coppola blamed some violence and the large number of arrests – which could top over 150 for the weekend – on outside agitators. “You want to have every precautionary means that you may need.to disperse these crowds”. Protesting peacefully is the best way to honor those killed, he said, adding that authorities won’t allow people “to incite hate and violence”.
One officer lost teeth to a projectile thrown outside police headquarters, and police also confiscated three rifles, three shotguns and two pistols during that protest, he said.
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Associated Press reporter Janet McConnaughey contributed from New Orleans.
