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Louisiana U.S. Representative Cedric Richmond said that the footage of Sterling's shooting is "deeply troubling" and called for a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the man's death. [49] Governor John Bel Edwards announced on July 6, that the Department of Justice would launch an investigation.
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
Dozens of protesters in Louisiana on Tuesday demanded justice for a black man fatally shot in an altercation with two police officers hours earlier. Dozens of protesters in Louisiana on Tuesday ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.