Louisiana police shooting caught on video strains community

Two brutal police killings of black men on camera in less than 24 hours – Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in suburban Minneapolis – has shaken the soul of black America to its core.

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 man got three stitches to close a cut he received during the scuffle.

The two said they have handled other “high-profile tragedies at the hands of law enforcement”.

The Justice Department has said it opened a civil rights investigation.

“It bothers me when I hear people say, ‘Y’all police officers this, y’all police officers that”.

But it is the civil rights of police officers that Edwards was concerned about in May, as if theirs were being routinely violated. Salamoni was called to a residence where he could hear a man yelling inside, according to internal investigation documents, when the man came out and was “aggressive and combative”, screaming obscenities at police.

While most celebs immediately took to social media to voice their grief over the loss, Drake made a decision to take his time to pen a touching letter to Alton’s family on Wednesday.

The FBI has taken over the investigation of the Baton Rouge shooting.

What do we know so far about the victims and officers involved in the shootings?

A gun fell from Sterling’s waistband while the officer was “wrestling” with him. The man was wounded by police.

This is not a plea to all police officers but toward any human being who fails to value life.

The video-recorded killing sparked anger and protests among the black community.

Washington police learned of the posts and reported them to the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department.

As protests erupt in Baton Rouge and other cities over Sterling’s death, Lavish Reynolds is left to mourn her boyfriend, Castile, who was gunned down in the auto while their 4-year-old daughter was driving in the backseat. He says he doesn’t condone violence, but is exhausted of the lack of punishment for officers in police shootings. “We didn’t like what we saw, but we knew we couldn’t believe the police”, he says.

Brian Bakst, political reporter for Minnesota Public Radio, he is stationed at Governor Mark Dayton’s mansion in St. Paul, where protests for the Philando Castile shooting are taking place.

The governor of the northern U.S. state asked the White House to order a federal probe into Wednesday night’s shooting in Falcon Heights, near Minneapolis, as calls mounted for justice for the 32-year-old victim Philando Castile.

Sandra Augustus, an aunt who helped raise Sterling after his mother died, spoke to the crowds Wednesday night with a tearful, broken voice. She said a second video that emerged Wednesday showing the moments before her nephew was shot left her angry.

Still, she pleaded for protesters and those gathered not to allow the vigil to be marred by violence.