Protests against police shooting resume in Baton Rouge

“Its presence in police culture, though often flatly denied by the many police apologists that appear in the media now, has been central to the breakdown in police-community relationships for decades in spite of good people doing police work”. The demonstration Saturday outside the Baton Rouge Police Department was at times tense again, as protesters faced off against police dressed in riot gear.

“The answer to guns is not more guns”, said Deyvid Morales, who directed the protest Saturday, told the Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/29vvYAl.) “The answer to stop this violence is to peacefully talk things out, to come together as a community”. As my train moved forward, I still sat on that Metro seat, feeling fragile and thin-skinned, overwhelmed by my powerlessness to protect my 2-year-old son, my husband and even myself from the dangers of being black in this country.

“This is not a game out here, police have gotten away with shooting so many people and not being punished for it. People are fed up”, wrote 50 on IG.

NY police said separately they arrested about a dozen protesters for shutting down a major city highway.

McMillon said she believes police said that “to cover up something”.

Cornell William Brooks, the national head of the NAACP, visited Baton Rouge on Friday and said he is exhausted of victims of police shootings being treated as “hashtag tragedies” instead of human beings mourned by their families. She says she doesn’t want anyone else to know that feeling. “And I just believe that we can not give them a pass on not making a comment”. What’s going on? What’d I do wrong?

‘Like a lot of you guys, I watched the videos, and was appalled and completely heartbroken.

After Alton Sterling was shot, Muflahi says that is when he saw police remove a weapon from his friend’s pocket, but it was not out.

“An average of 55 police officers are “feloniously killed” a year”, writes Lind, using Federal Bureau of Investigation data. The protests come just a day after Micah Johnson gunned down five police officers in Dallas.

President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in the 1970s that New York State governor Nelson Rockefeller attempted to win through draconian sentencing policies – including mandatory minimums – that would become national policy by the 1980s.

“Police understand the concerns about choices made about who gets stopped and what happens when they get stopped”, said Darrel Stephens, executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association.

Muflahi exited his store to let police know that there was no one who had been threatening and no one brandishing a gun.

Police later went back inside their headquarters and traffic reopened. Two young black men shot to death by policemen, one white, the other Asian, in episodes that seem, in early perceptions, to have been senseless.

Sterling had stood outside of the convenience store selling CDs for years, the store owner Abdullah Muflahi told The Advocate.

This led to the unnamed homeless man constantly asking for money which led to Sterling showing his gun to him.

Protesters blocked the intersection in front of the Triple S Food Mart, where the shooting took place, asking drivers to honk their horns.

Law officers transported Reynolds and her daughter to the Roseville Police Department, where Reynolds provided a statement to investigators about the incident. About the great power that police wield – as authority figures wielding powerful firearms – and how we send them out ill-equipped for that power.

Alton Sterling, 37, was shot by Baton Rouge police who were reportedly responding to call about an armed black man on Tuesday morning.