Muflahi, who shot video on his cellphone of the shooting, claims in court documents that he was illegally detained for four hours following the shooting of Sterling.
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Police said they have dashcam video, bodycam video and store surveillance footage of the shooting that will be turned over to the Justice Department.
They then put the witness into the back of a cop vehicle for four hours, he says, letting him out only to go to the bathroom-and even then, they allegedly made him pee outside of his store while an officer looked on.
Muflahi’s lawsuit is another big problem for the police and could end up shedding some important light on the events of July 6. BRPD’s policy for ongoing investigations is that they can not comment.
The state is investigating the death of Alton Sterling.
That image has swept through social media as a defining moment of protests over recent police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
As Sterling lies on the ground with blood seeping from his chest, one of the officers leans over and grabs what appears to be a gun from the street seller’s pocket.
In cellphone video, which appears to be shot from inside a nearby parked vehicle, one of two police officers outside the store can be seen tackling a man in a red shirt and wrestling him to the ground.
When Sterling did not comply, the officers tried to physically restrain him and then “deployed” their Tasers, the affidavit states. She stands tall and poised, sundress blowing in the wind, facing a squadron of armed policemen as two officers rush towards her.
State Police Col. Mike Edmonson defended the lawmen’s response, saying they were being hit with chunks of concrete on Sunday.
After the interstate arrests, police stopped protesters walking in the road on Grand Avenue early Sunday and arrested 52 people.
The woman whose arrest by police in Baton Rouge has come to symbolize the current protest movement is a registered nurse from the Scranton area, reports indicate.
Sterling’s public funeral is scheduled for Friday at Southern University, the Advocate reported. Muflahi names Officer Blane Salamoni, Officer Howie Lake, Lt. Robert Cook, Officer Timothy Ballard, the City of Baton Rouge, and Chief of Police Carl Dabadie in the suit. Instead the protesters kept to a park to wave signs and mourn. His death as well as the video recordings of it captured by bystanders have sparked days of protests.
Ella Carr, center, of Austin, Texas, puts her fist up during live music at a night rally in honor of Alton Sterling, outside the Triple S Food mart in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, July 11, 2016.
He will ask the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office to take over the case.
According to Louisiana law, a district attorney is required to be recused when he has a personal interest or a conflict with a case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were called in last week to investigate.
“He said his office looks forward to “.fulfilling our responsibilities upon completion of the investigation and receipt of the complete investigative materials”. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said the U.S. Department of Justice is leading a criminal investigation.
Police in Baton Rouge used an LRAD for the first time on Sunday. “Gun!” and then one officer on top of the man can be seen pulling his weapon from his holster.
The Left is now screaming over provisions in Louisiana’s police bill of rights and the Baton Rouge police union contract which provide 30 days for cops under investigation to secure counsel before being interrogated, provisions which are awfully inconvenient since demands have been made that both Salamoni and Lake be charged with murder forthwith. It was shot by a New Orleans-based photographer, Jonathan Bachman of Reuters, who was covering the Black Lives Matter protest that was being held outside Baton Rouge police headquarters this weekend.
The 31-year-old Mckesson was arrested Saturday on a charge of obstructing a highway.
Soon after the Alton Sterling shooting death, law enforcement allegedly seized Muflahi’s security footage that he says recorded the encounter between the victim and police.
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A warrant from police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has revealed that officers claimed they observed the butt of a gun in the front pocket of Alton Sterling’s trousers before shooting him to death. Of the more than 150 arrests, Moore said today that about 20 of those people are still in custody and being processed. For their demonstration, the protestors blocked traffic on a highway near the city’s police department until the authorities showed up equipped in riot gear and demanded they move to the sidewalk, Bachman told Buzzfeed.
