In St. Paul, an overnight face-off on Interstate-94 resulted in more than 100 arrests, while in Baton Rouge, almost 200 people have been arrested since Friday. “They were ignored”, said Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola. The suit also alleges that officers illegally seized his cellphone and did not allow him to call his family or lawyer.
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Some say the police department in particular has made improvements.
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.
On July 5, police received a call claiming a man was threatening someone with a gun outside of the Triple S Food Mart on N. Foster Drive.
The surveillance video from the convenience store is going to be very interesting when it is made public.
The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing and at one point asking how many officers he had shot, the police chief said Sunday. “Gun!” and then one officer on top of the man can be seen pulling his weapon from his holster.
Minister Devante Hill, an organizer of a protest that blocked Interstate 40 on Sunday night, listed the group’s demands during a community meeting with Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and interim Police Director Michael Rallings at a church Monday.
At a West Coast protest, hundreds of people poured into the streets of in Southern California late Sunday night, blocking traffic for several minutes on the 405 Freeway. They fear it would promote the flight of more affluent white residents to the new St. George, where proponents say they’d establish an independent school system.
Police have increased security in cities across the country, and in a sign of the tense situation that continues in Dallas, police placed their headquarters on alert Saturday, while they searched for a suspicious person in a nearby parking garage.
Sterling’s funeral will be held Friday in Baton Rouge.
Carney and Mackey Funeral Home of Baton Rouge is coordinating arrangements.
After an organized protest in downtown Baton Rouge protesters wondered into residential neighborhoods and toward a major highway that caused the police to respond by arresting protesters that refused to disperse. Police have arrested 200 demonstrators over a three-day period and taken to the streets in riot gear, carrying rifles and driving armored vehicles. “Not to agitate us and pick and grab people”, she said. The U.S. Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation. But any decision on whether to pursue other charges such as murder or negligent homicide or assault would generally come from the state.
Baton Rouge’s top prosecutor is weighing whether to pursue charges against almost 200 demonstrators arrested in weekend protests over the killings of young black men as criticism mounts by protesters over the tactics officers used on the crowds.
The investigation was handed over to the FBI Wednesday, and East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore said on Thursday that the DA’s office would not make a move on the case until the federal investigators wrapped up their investigation.
Baton Rouge Police have identified the officers as as Salamoni, a four-year veteran, and three-year veteran Howie Lake II.
Moore said Salamoni’s parents are both high-ranking career police officers, and that he’s worked with them often during his 42-year career.
Among those arrested was DeRay Mckesson, according to an Associated Press reporter who was at the scene.
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New Orleans artist @augustalsina at Baton Rouge in support of Alton Sterling. Demonstrators have also tried but failed in recent days to block highways in Atlanta and Columbia, South Carolina.
