He cited his professional relationship with the parents of one of the officers involved in the shooting, Blane Salamoni.
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Recently hired by city schools as the new Chief Human Capital Officer, McKesson was arrested early Sunday morning during a protest in Baton Rouge.
Moore said those decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Baton Rouge has become a flashpoint for protesters after Alton Sterling, 37, was shot and killed last week by city police who were responding to a call that he had threatened someone with a gun outside a convenience store where he was selling CDs.
Sterling’s death, followed by the fatal shooting of another black man, Philando Castile, 32, near St. Paul, Minnesota, revived a wave of protests in recent years over police treatment of minorities that has given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. “They have provoked people, they chase people just for kicks”.
According to his live Periscope video, Mckesson was arrested when a police officer approached him from behind and said he was under arrest after he and other protesters were walking on the side of the street.
She was one of 102 protesters arrested on Saturday night outside the police station on Airline Highway.
According to The Daily Mail, Ieshia is originally from NY where she works as a nurse, and came to protest in Baton Rouge. Focusing only on the latter, it seems inconceivable that the woman in the photo is about to be taken to jail, but moments after the picture was taken, the officers indeed placed her in handcuffs.
This protest comes one day after a peaceful march to the State Capitol was eclipsed by an unscheduled protest that happened at the conclusion of the program.
A Baton Rouge police spokesman, Sgt Don Coppola, had blamed the large number of arrests on outside agitators. “They actually swept the yard, came onto the porch, and I said, “This is my home; I don’t want you here”.
The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation. Just a few days ago, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards commended the protesters for exercising their rights to peacefully protest.
“They don’t mean ‘black lives matter, ‘” Giuliani said in a Fox News interview on Monday.
Sterling’s public funeral is scheduled for Friday at Southern University, the Advocate reported.
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A list released Monday by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sherriff’s office shows that 38 of the 50 people arrested at protests that began Sunday are from Louisiana. Mckesson said he hopes the Justice Department, which already is investigating Sterling’s death, also reviews how Baton Rouge police have treated protesters.
