“This week we watched Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two innocent black men, get senselessly murdered by police officers. A lot of racism has been going on here for a long time”, he said.
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“The answer to guns is not more guns”, said Deyvid Morales, who directed the protest Saturday, told the Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/29vvYAl.) “The answer to stop this violence is to peacefully talk things out, to come together as a community”. Protesters threw rocks at the police after officers used pepper spray on them. I don’t want the death penalty for them. Officers in riot gear blocked an on-ramp to keep the protesters from entering State Route 41.
Lael Montgomery from Baton Rouge said the black community is demanding an end to police brutality.
Pointing to the crowds shouting along a fence surrounding the police department she said: “To me, this is just a snapshot of north Baton Rouge and how frustrated they are”.
A few hundred protesters briefly faced off against police in riot gear outside the police department.
Vast crowds marched Friday in USA cities including Atlanta, Georgia; Houston, Texas; and San Francisco, while scores protested outside the White House.
“This is not a game out here, police have gotten away with shooting so many people and not being punished for it. People are fed up”, wrote 50 on IG.
A suburban St. Louis police chief says a motorist shot an officer three times as the officer walked back to his auto during a traffic stop.
“These robberies of lives make us feel helpless and hopeless but we have to believe that we are fighting for the rights of the next generation for the next young men and women who believe in good”.
“It’s an American value and a fundamental Constitutional right to freely express our views, to assemble, to speak, and that’s what’s been happening until last night when the inexplicable actions of a madman took the lives of five police officers and injured many others”.
Baton Rouge police have issued a statement saying they are investigating a newspaper website’s video that appears to show an officer with his weapon temporarily drawn at one point early Saturday morning as angry protesters confronted police.
“We are reviewing the video”.
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Police found bomb-making materials and a weapons cache at the home of 25-year-old Micah Johnson, a Dallas area resident who gunned down the officers before dying in a standoff with police. Protesters first gathered at Triple S, where leaders used a PA system to direct the protesters to the Baton Rouge Police Department and then to a march planned for 6 p.m. from City Hall to the Capitol.
