Police arrested more than 40 people Sunday night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, adding to the hundreds arrested across the country while protesting the police killings of black citizens.
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As the woman stood motionless, two of the officers, clad all in black armor and moving swiftly in tandem, reached the woman, grabbed her by the arms and pulled her back behind the line of riot police. “Why are (police) in riot gear?” he said.
Up to 600 people marched Saturday in Indianapolis to the Indiana State House. “If I get close to you, you’re going to jail”, warning Mckesson to stay on the shoulder.
Slaughter said he was arrested when he put one foot onto a road to try to get a better angle while recording the protest.
Those safety concerns were also on the mind of Baton Rouge resident Eugene Collins.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown told CNN on Sunday Micah X. Johnson had improvised as he used “shoot-and-move” tactics to gun down officers. He was also released Sunday after being arrested on the side of Airline Highway.
By Sunday night, a few hundred people aimed for an on-ramp of Interstate 110 in Baton Rouge.
“It wasn’t very violent”, Bachman continued.
“The ACLU stands with the protesters in Baton Rouge and urges the police to honor our constitutional rights instead of stomping on them”.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said he was pleased by what he considered law enforcement’s “moderate response” to the weekend’s events. The scene apparently did not stay peaceful, as Baton Rouge police later said in a statement 102 protesters were arrested.
Whatever polite social contract was in place between Baton Rouge law enforcement officials and protesters after police were caught on film shooting and killing Alton Sterling, it has certainly been broken.
Moore, the local district attorney, said the Justice Department would rather not have “parallel investigations”. The U.S. Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation.
People here say they’ll continue to turn out in force until there’s meaningful change in relations between police and the communities they are sworn to protect.
“We’ve discussed this for several days”, Moore said.
The district attorney said he’d worked frequently with Salamoni’s parents, who are high-ranking police officers, according to The Advocate.
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A New Orleans-based photographer Jonathan Bachman snapped what has become the most talked-about photo from the protests against police brutality that rocked Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this weekend.
