On the video, Mckesson can be heard talking with fellow protesters and describing what he said was provocative police behavior against protesters.
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The protesters chanted, “No justice, no peace!” and “Y’all have guns”.
Brittany Packett, an activist who was with him Saturday night, said Mckesson was arrested while marching for Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who was killed after two white officers tackled him outside a convenience store.
“Black boys are being killed and this is just the culmination of what has been going on for decades”, she said.
“Now, I’m walking a mile with them”. We have been suffering police brutality for a long time. “They are telling us not to be violent, but they are being violent against us”.
“I’m not going to submit me and my family to abuse and ridicule”, the mayor said. But Montgomery said he also doesn’t want anyone to get hurt in the protests.
Quinyetta McMillon, the mother of Alton Sterling’s 15-year-old son, Cameron Sterling, speaks during an interview in Baton Rouge, La., Friday, July 8, 2016.
Kira Marrero, a 22-year-old resident of New Orleans who graduated last year from Williams College in MA, was the first protester freed from Baton Rouge’s jail on Sunday. At least one person was arrested.
The demonstrations in Baton Rouge following Tuesday’s shooting of Alton Sterling had been largely peaceful, but there were some tense moments Friday night and early Saturday.
Jade Flint was one of the protesters out on the street late Saturday.
They declared that black lives matter and Sterling’s did, too.
“At this time, there are no specific or credible threats to the state of Louisiana”.
Overall, things were calm and peaceful, but the presence from law enforcement grew as the number of protestors continued to climb.
Earlier Friday, Cornell W. Brooks, the NAACP president and CEO, who traveled from Baltimore to Baton Rouge on Friday, commended the toned-down police presence while he visited the store where Sterling was killed in the parking lot, a few miles away from the Police Department. “We are working to identify this officer so we can better understand the reason he might have done this”, Dunnam said. Police have arrested 200 demonstrators over a three-day period and taken to the streets in riot gear, carrying rifles and driving armored vehicles.
Tensions between black citizens and police have risen over the past week amid police shootings of African-American men in Minnesota and Louisiana and the gunning down of five white police officers by a black suspect in Dallas in apparent retaliation.
“The police in Baton Rouge have been truly bad tonight”, McKesson said on the video.
“Protesters were attempting to get onto and block the interstate”, Baton Rouge police Cpl. He said undercover officers have been at the Triple S protests all week, and other officers have been on standby for any emergencies. “That’s why I don’t want them to go to the police station”, he said.
“I really wanna know more about what happened, about the whole situation, because my brother didn’t deserve it”, Sterling’s sister, Mignon Chambers told WABF-TV. “You want to have every precautionary means that you may need.to disperse these crowds”.
Regina Barrow, D-Baton Rouge, urged protesters to leave the area and participate in a later march to the state Capitol.
The call that was made to police said that “a man” was threatening people with a gun outside the Triple S Food Mart.
Salamoni’s complaints involved punching a black man on August 5, 2015, when he tried to grab the officer’s stun gun and a vehicle pursuit on June 17, 2015, in which a black man was injured when he crashed into a retaining wall. The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into his death, which has angered many in the black community. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said in a statement that he won’t have access to the federal investigation on the shooting until it’s completed and a decision has been made on potential federal charges.
“It’s better that DOJ do their work”. Elected officials such as state Sen.
The officers in the shooting were Blane Salamoni, a four-year member of the department, and Howie Lake II, who has been on the force for three years.
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Sterling’s funeral will be held Friday in Baton Rouge. Services will be at the Southern University F.G. Clark Activity Center.
