He cited his professional relationship with the parents of one of the officers, Blane Salamoni. A protester who picked up Mckesson’s phone can be heard asking police taking him away.
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He referenced the shootings of police officers during a protest in Dallas on Thursday and said police officers need to be able to defend themselves.
Police made almost 200 arrests in Louisiana’s capital city during weekend protests, which are growing across the country as people express outrage over deaths at the hands of police.
Mayor Kasim Reed said earlier Monday that about 15,000 people attended various protests this weekend in Atlanta. In fact, Thomas said some officers were even “laughing at us while they pointed assault rifles” at the crowd of peaceful protesters.
A Baton Rouge police spokesman, Sgt. Don Coppola, has said that protests have become more violent as protesters from other cities arrived in Baton Rouge.
“The police continue to just provoke people”, Mckesson says after an officer yells to a group of people that if they step on the roadway, they will be arrested.McKesson responds: “I’m under arrest, y’all!” before the camera is knocked to the ground.
A prominent Black Lives Matter activist arrested in Louisiana while protesting the killing of a black man during a struggle with white police officers says he is returning to Baltimore. Salamoni’s parents have both worked for Baton Rouge police, and Moore says they’ve interacted directly and worked on hundreds of cases in common.
In the first few days following Mr Sterling’s death, police took a more reserved approach to enforcement, keeping a low profile as hundreds of people gathered outside the convenience store where he died. When they refused to leave, officers began to arrest protesters, despite the peaceful actions of the protest.
By Friday, tensions ratcheted up.
At a press conference before Sunday’s arrests near the interstate, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he was “very proud” of his state’s law enforcement response. The 28-year-old store owner filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Baton Rouge Police Department, City of Baton Rouge, Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr., and officers Timothy Ballard and Robert Cook.
During a confrontation Sunday evening near an interstate ramp, a police officer in an armored vehicle had warned protesters over a loudspeaker that they would be arrested if they didn’t leave the area.
The incident was also recorded on the shop’s surveillance camera, which was illegally seized by police said Muflahi.
“They had several opportunities to get out of the road, to disperse”.
New Orleans residents accounted for almost half of the people who were arrested at protests that started Sunday in Baton Rouge, according to a list provided by Hicks.
“Not only did Mr. Sterling lose his life, but my client also lost his liberty”, Muflahi’s lawyer, Joel Porter, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
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The suit says he was kept in the back of a police vehicle for four hours and detained at the Louisiana State Police headquarters for two hours while he was questioned.
