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The fatal shooting of a 31-year-old Black man by police in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Friday night has sparked a state probe. The Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations announced in a press ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A white Louisiana police officer was arrested Thursday for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man The post Louisiana officer arrested for killing fleeing Black man, police ...
A Shreveport, Louisiana, officer was arrested and charged with negligent homicide following the death of Alonzo Bagley, a Black man who was shot by police responding to a domestic disturbance call.
On July 17, Gavin Eugene Long shot and killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge. Long was killed at the scene during a shootout with responding officers. The shooting has been linked to the nationwide tension over race and policing, with the event happening days after Sterling's death in the same city. [47] [48]
On May 10, 2019, Ronald Hardin Greene, an unarmed 49-year-old Black man, was killed after being arrested by Louisiana State Police following a high-speed chase outside Monroe, Louisiana. During the arrest, he was stunned, punched, pepper sprayed and placed in a chokehold. [ 1 ]
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 ...
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Oakland Officer Hector Jimenez shot Woodfox in the back as he fled a traffic stop. No criminal charges were filled in Woodfox's death. Jimenez had shot and killed a man, Andrew Moppin-Buckskin, seven months prior to Woodfox's shooting under similar circumstances. [228] [229] August 4, 2008 Andre DeMon Thomas: 37 Swissvale, Pennsylvania