In a video from Louisiana, where Alton Sterling was killed during an arrest, Mckesson is walking on the side of the road and noting the lack of a sidewalk.
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Moore also said he’s recusing himself from any state criminal investigation into the shooting death of Sterling.
Police say they have dashcam footage, body cam footage and store surveillance footage that will be turned over to the Justice Department, CBS News reported. Bachman told The Atlantic that Evans did not resist and that the police did not “drag her off”.
The officer who shot Sterling has not been specified.
Further protests are expected throughout Monday.
The majority of protesters who have taken to the streets in the past week have done so peacefully, though violence did mar some events.
Sterling’s funeral will be held Friday in Baton Rouge. These assertions recall the claims of late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that “outside agitators” were responsible for stirring up civil rights protests in the 1960s.
The woman was among the few hundred protesters who gathered Saturday outside the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Amnesty International questioned the high number of arrests during Saturday’s protests and whether it was a “proportionate response to peaceful protests”.
At times police have used riot gear and military-style vehicles in demonstrations.
Authorities have not discussed what occurred that night, saying they can not speak about ongoing investigations.
Today, Moore handed off that ball to Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who will either appoint a District Attorney from another jurisdiction or someone from his own staff.
“The arrests will not make any of us afraid to tell the truth”, McKesson said.
Protestors in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 10.
Although the U.S. Justice Department is conducting the investigation into the Local, Parish and State officials, along with law enforcement made the decision that the U.S. Justice Department should take the lead in the investigation, once it’s complete, it will go back to the local district attorney to determine whether to prosecute. He cited his professional relationship with the parents of one of the officers, Blane Salamoni. Louisiana State Police will assist, Gov. John Bel Edwards has said.
Black neighborhoods have been “willfully neglected” by city government, said Mike McClanahan, president of the NAACP branch in Baton Rouge, where 54 percent of 229,000 residents are black. A Sheriff’s Office jail log showed a 35-year-old woman with that name was booked on a charge of simple obstruction of a highway and had been released from custody. Seven officers and two civilians were wounded in the attack. Organizers said many protesters put tape over their mouths to symbolize the way police brutality silences African Americans.
The photograph was taken outside the Baton Rouge police headquarters, where there were widespread protests at the weekend.
Most of the city’s black population lives in the north whereas the white population lives in the south part.
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In recent days, demonstrators also tried but failed to block highways in Atlanta and Columbia, South Carolina, while in San Francisco, police managed to keep them off the Bay Bridge.
