McKesson, three journalists and more than 120 other people were taken into custody in Louisiana over the past two days, authorities said Sunday, after protests over the fatal shooting of an African-American man by two white police officers in Baton Rouge.
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Sterling was killed during an altercation outside the store where he was selling CDs.
Baton Rouge police chief Carl Dabadie said on Friday that his department was striving to avoid a “military-style response” to the protests.
Police began releasing those who were arrested on Sunday afternoon.
Around 12:35 a.m., Baton Rouge police responded to the Triple S Food Mart at 2112 N. Foster Drive after an anonymous caller indicated that a man in a red shirt who was selling CDs outside the store pointed a gun at someone, telling them to leave the property, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Cpl.
Police made about five arrests during the Baton Rouge Police Department protest that was led by the New Black Panthers Party, who arrived near the police department in a white bus.
According to internal affairs documents released Thursday, the two police officers involved in Sterling’s death had four previous “use of force” complaints lodged against them and were cleared in all of them.
After meeting with the USA attorney’s office to get an update on the probe, the Democrat put out a statement saying: “The people of Baton Rouge and across Louisiana should have no doubt that a thorough and impartial investigation is taking place as we speak”.
“We’re going to do as good job as we can, as quickly as we can, to try to go through the (police) reports as they come in”, he said.
Police did not say how many shots were fired and declined to say whether a stun gun was used on Mr.
Helmeted police moved in and kept a group of protesters late Sunday in Baton Rouge from entering a major artery, Interstate 110 in Baton Rouge, thwarting a tactic that social justice activists have increasingly tried in some major cities to protest the deaths. A clearly distraught person who appears to be a police officer stands at the car’s window, tells her to keep her hands up and says: “I told him not to reach for it”.
Sterling’s death prompted pain and anger among protesters who flooded the streets on Tuesday night to demand “no justice, no peace”.
Police march toward protesters in a residential neighborhood in Baton Rouge, La. on Sunday, July 10, 2016. 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.
In New Orleans, more than two dozen protesters briefly lay down in front of the police headquarters in a symbolic die-in.
The 48-second video, which was recorded by a witness inside a auto, shows two cops struggling with Sterling before one of them takes him down to the ground and both of them end up on top of him. When pulled over for a broken tail light, she says, Castile told the officer he had a gun and was licensed to carry it. She said several officers then tackled him, even though he wasn’t in the street.
Alton Sterling was a son, a brother and a father of five adorable children.
Lael Montgomery of Baton Rouge was at the convenience store where Sterling was shot.
The national head of the NAACP said he is exhausted of victims of police shootings being treated as “hashtag tragedies” instead of human beings mourned by their families.
The death of Alton Sterling has sent shock waves through not just the state of Louisiana but also the entire nation and the world.
Local officials rushed to defuse tensions on Wednesday, saying there would be an independent investigation after media showed a separate graphic video of the shooting recorded by a bystander.
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At a vigil earlier, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards thanked the people of Baton Rouge for their peaceful demonstrations and promised to focus on improving law enforcement.
