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Four other civilians were wounded. All of the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison, a mentally disabled man, was shot in the back. The shootings caused public anger and further eroded the community's trust in the NOPD and the federal response to Hurricane Katrina overall. [2]
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 ]
The owner of the store where the shooting occurred said that Sterling was "not the one causing trouble" during the situation that led to the police being called. [8] [9] The shooting was recorded by multiple bystanders. The shooting led to protests in Baton Rouge and a request for a civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice ...
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 ...
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.
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — State prosecutors have added a second felony charge against a former Louisiana police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed Black man earlier this year.. The ...
Officer Marcus Giardino shot Carpenter in the back as he ran away. Giardino pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in 1978, the second time in Philadelphia history an officer was convicted for killing a Black man. [30] June 14, 1978 Arthur Miller Jr. 34–35 New York City, New York: Miller died after being put in a chokehold by NYPD ...
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 ...