There was very little violence by comparison in Baton Rouge. “I want them to be in prison”, McMillon said, calling the federal investigation a “very positive step”.
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More than two dozen protesters briefly lay down in front of the New Orleans Police Department headquarters in a symbolic die-in.
By Sunday morning, police arrested 50 people, the St. Paul police said. They were accompanied by state Rep. Denise Marcelle, a Democrat from Baton Rouge. He says association President Ben Crump asked him to get involved.
“I want to be clear that will not be tolerated”.
Houma Police Chief Dana Coleman: “When first hearing the news, I was shocked”. “He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm”, Reynolds said as she live-streamed the details of Wednesday evening’s shooting on Facebook.
Breitbart News reported that Lee Stranahan, one of its reporters, was arrested.
He told the crowd of more than 100 people that voting in November “as though our lives depend upon it” would be the best way to reform policing practices.
Three people – two from Baton Rouge and one from Humble, Texas – face a charge of inciting to riot, and four – all from the Baton Rouge area – face a charge of resisting arrest.
Eugene Puryear, the march organizer, said the shooting of five police officers in Dallas on Thursday was tragic but inevitable because of police violence against African-Americans.
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson walks out of the Baton Rouge jail yesterday.
An Associated Press reporter who was at the scene Saturday night confirmed Mckesson’s arrest. Mckesson livestreamed the protest and his arrest on Periscope.
Black Lives Matter is asking its supporters to join together at 6 p.m. ET at Make Shift Boston, “to mourn our lost, organize our people, and celebrate our resistance”. The former educator built a national following after he left his then-home and job in Minneapolis in August 2014 for Ferguson, Missouri, to document the rising anger over race relations after the police shooting of Michael Brown.
You’re under arrest. Don’t fight me.
Hundreds of people are demonstrating in the streets of Baton Rouge over the death of a black man earlier this week.
Demonstrators gathered at the convenience store where 37-year-old Alton Sterling was shot before fanning out to the Baton Rouge police department and the state Capitol for another day of demonstrations.
Shouting “No justice! No peace!” roughly 1000 protesters gathered outside the police department, waving homemade signs as passing cars honked their support.
Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson was released from jail Sunday after spending a night in lockup following his arrest in Baton Rouge while protesting the shooting death of a black man by police.
After a lengthy standoff, helmeted police in riot gear moved in, pinning some of the protesters as others fled. Police have confiscated three rifles, three shotguns and two pistols during that protest, he wrote in an email.
Police later went back inside their headquarters and traffic reopened.
Cornell William Brooks, the national head of the NAACP, said during a visit to Baton Rouge Friday that he’s exhausted of victims of police shootings being treated as “hashtag tragedies” instead of human beings.
The graphic video, which was shot from a much closer distance, shows the two Baton Rouge police officers struggling with Sterling.
As we’ve seen time and again, police officers are often not held accountable for the killings they commit.
Meanwhile, the White House said Barack Obama will meet relatives of the five police officers killed in Dallas when a gunman opened fire on a protest march.
The gathering at the Triple S convenience store came after overnight demonstrations produced tense moments resulting in 30 arrests.
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More demonstrations were expected Saturday afternoon. 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.
