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On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by two Baton Rouge Police Department officers, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, ...
On 8 December 1995, Alton Manning, a 33-year-old black man, was killed whilst being processed at HMP Blakenhurst in Worcestershire, England. [1] An inquest in March 1998 found that the killing was unlawful. [2] The Crown Prosecution Service refused to bring charges against any officers; consequently, no officers have been charged in the killing ...
Alton Coleman was born on November 6, 1955, in Waukegan, Illinois.His mother worked three jobs, and he lived with his 73-year-old grandmother. Coleman was well known to Illinois law enforcement, having been charged with sex crimes six times between 1973 and 1983.
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 ...
The Black Death, one of history’s deadliest pandemics, ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and primarily spread by fleas on rats, the plague also swept ...
[54] Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson said, "Philando Castile should be alive today". [9] On July 8, over 1,000 demonstrators shut down Interstate 880 in Oakland, California, for several hours to protest Castile's shooting death and that of Alton Sterling the day before. [55]
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Alton C. Parker was born in Windsor, Ontario, on July 3, 1907, where he remained for the rest of his life. [1] A mechanic by trade, he worked as a foreman at a used car dealership. [2] He was also president of the Central Citizens Association, a group organized to (among other things) employ black people in Windsor's public services.