A professional relationship is too close to one of the officers, the East Baton Rouge, La., D.A. said.
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Sterling’s death, and the fatal shooting of another black man, Philando Castile, near St Paul, Minnesota, revived a wave of protests over police treatment of minorities that has swirled for two years and has given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bachman, 31, told BuzzFeed News that between 100-200 protesters were blocking traffic on a highway when law enforcement officers dressed in full riot gear showed up and told the demonstrators to move to the sidewalk.
I’m very upset. I’m stunned at the behavior of police officers that utilized, from what I understand, the ability to chase someone that they targeted that was actually on the street, to bombard my yard and bombard my house. They were in the street.
They were pushing people, we were smushed. “I understand that officers have been hurt in other cities, but down here it’s remained peaceful”.
Muflahi said in the lawsuit that officers also took his cell phone, preventing him from calling his family or lawyer to secure his release.
“A group of demonstrators had formed a blockade – blocked Airline Highway, which runs in front of Baton Rouge Police headquarters”, Jonathan Bachman, a New Orleans-based photographer who was on assignment for Reuters, told the Atlantic.
Many celebrities have taken to social media to express their sadness and to call for change after two African-African men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were killed by police in separate incidents in Louisiana and Minnesota last week (ends08Jul16), and Nick Cannon, The Game and Snoop Dogg hit the streets of NY and Los Angeles to join marches. Her face bore no expression and she did not speak, he said. Police hadn’t been violent with her. “We depend on the police to protect and serve everyone in our communities, to treat people fairly, to use violence only as the very last resort”.
Because of these deaths, protests against police brutality occurred in many cities around the United States.
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. But the Baton Rouge police have failed us.
Police and protesters with signs in a residential neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 10.
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Then, by Sunday night, a few hundred people aimed for an on-ramp of Interstate 110 in Baton Rouge. Police also confiscated three rifles, three shotguns and two pistols during that protest, he wrote in an email.
