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Read this account of the police illegally trespassing onto private property and violently beating and apprehending individuals who were protesting a recent poli
by soulofmischief 2y ago
Read this account of the police illegally trespassing onto private property and violently beating and apprehending individuals who were protesting a recent police killing of a black man named Alton Sterling.
It happened in my city and and several of my friends were there, beaten by police and arrested. I was not around at the time or I'd have been there as well, and likely shot and killed.
https://19thnews.org/2023/05/baton-rouge-police-violence-protesters-witnesses-settlement/ https://19thnews.org/2023/05/baton-rouge-police-violence-pro...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/IwK-E1iC2v8 https://www.youtube.com/embed/IwK-E1iC2v8 (footage of the assault)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alton_Sterling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alton_Sterling
> Police alleged that Sterling had reached for the loaded handgun in his pants pocket ... The owner of the store where the shooting occurred said that Sterling had started carrying a gun a few days prior to the event as other CD vendors had been robbed recently. He also said that Sterling was "not the one causing trouble" during the situation that led to the police being called.
I personally had an incident that led to almost a dozen police officers pointing their guns at me and detaining me just for visiting a convenience store that had recently been robbed. I shudder to think about what would have occurred if I were black.