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Alton Sterling (June 14, 1979 – July 5, 2016) was known locally in Baton Rouge as "CD Man". [8] He had a criminal record that included violent offenses, and had been sentenced to serve 5 years following a 2009 incident that stated he had resisted arrest. During a struggle with the arresting officer in 2009, a "black semi auto gun fell from ...
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council in Louisiana voted Wednesday night to offer a $4.5 million settlement for the family of Alton Sterling, a Black man shot and killed by police in 2016.
Louisiana will not charge two police officers for the fatal 2016 shooting of Alton Sterling, which was caught on video and sparked protests.
Sterling was shot by a Baton Rouge police officer on July 5, 2016, after a struggle outside a convenience store where he was selling homemade CDs. The death inflamed racial tensions in the city.
On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an ambush attack, [9] in the wake of the shooting of Alton Sterling.Four died, including one who was critically wounded and died from complications in 2022, and two others were hospitalized; of the officers who initially died, two were members of the Baton Rouge Police Department, while the third worked ...
ANAHEIM, Calif. – In the sweltering days of July, tensions between police and civilians were running high. A cop fatally shot Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, setting off a week of protests. Another police officer fatally shot Philando Castile in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, while his fiance and her 4-year-old daughter watched.
Officially, no one killed Alton Sterling. On July 5, 2016, Baton Rouge, La., police officer Blane Salamoni pumped six shots into the back and chest of 37-year-old Sterling as Officer Howie Lake II ...
A protest was organized in Dallas by the Next Generation Action Network in response to the killings of two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota, respectively, days before. [20] The Dallas protest was one of several held across the United States on the night of July 7. [21]