Family of slain Louisiana man denounces Dallas police deaths

“In South Orange and Maplewood, dozens of area residents protested police brutality with a “‘My Life Matters” walk that began outside Maplewood Police Department headquarters Thursday evening.

A large presence of police officers stood guard on each street corner of the intersection where the protesters were. Join the protests for justice!

The police reacted calmly while protesters yelled and later the line of officers who confronted protesters moved back toward headquarters.

A man who didn’t report his toddler daughter’s death for about a month before a cable company worker found her decomposed body in a crib at their apartment was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after being…

Eye-witnesses say he was first hit with a taser by one officer, and then fatally shot “four or six times” by another as the father-of-five tried to break free. The white man was politely questioned by police.

The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile feel like a grotesque ritual at this point.

Since the two shootings, many celebrities have spoken out against what many see as two cases of police brutality and racial profiling. Officials said Officer Blane Salamoni and Officer Howie Lake II responded to the call.

The reality star, who is married to rapper Kanye West, has said that she doesn’t want to have to teach her son “to be scared of the police”. Nakia Jones says she was so upset after watching the video-recorded killing in Baton Rouge that she wanted to quit the police force in Warrensville Heights.

The black man was later identified as Alton Sterling also known as the “CD Man”. Video evidence of Alton Sterling’s execution can spread like wildfire in a way that network television would never allow, stoking passions and raising the call to action to a fever pitch. While African-Americans represent 13.2 per cent of the U.S. population, they accounted for 27.6 per cent of total deaths at the hands of police between 1999 and 2013, the study said, citing figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

The national head of the NAACP said he is exhausted of victims of police shootings being treated as “hashtag tragedies” instead of human beings mourned by their families.

These confrontations between law enforcement black men who are carrying weapons-or are perceived to be carrying them-in places where open carry is fully permitted, can end up becoming deadly, as was the case with 12-year-old Tamir Rice who was playing with a toy gun and was shot by Cleveland police, or with John Crawford, who picked up an unwrapped BB-gun at an Ohio Walmart and was subsequently killed by law enforcement.

However, the statement by Executive Director Sean Gormley of Law Enforcement Labor Services said, it is “important to remember, despite the graphic nature of the video, that there is still a great deal we don’t know about what happened in this incident and why”.

“This has been a sad week for our state and for our nation, Edwards said”. How many times have some of us, maybe many of us, felt uncomfortable – and soon looked away?

One Twitter user based in London, where 82 percent of the police said in a 2004 survey that they did not want to be armed, wrote that he was glad to not live in the United States at the moment.

Everything I’ve written so far is basically a list of things that would make discussing events like this, and the reactions to those events, less painful. They added an altercation ensued between the officers and Sterling, 37, who was allegedly outside the store selling CDs. Muflahi’s video shows one of the officers taking what appears to a gun from Sterling’s pocket an instant before the fatal shots were fired, and Sterling writhing on the ground after he was shot, a pool of blood accumulating on his chest. McMillon says she believes police said that “to cover up something”.