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Lawsuit against city of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Police Department and officers [3] settled for $4.5 million [4] 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, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The officers, who were attempting to control ...
On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an ambush attack, 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 for ...
Five police officers killed in Dallas, Texas during sniper attack. On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghan War veteran, was angry over police shootings of black men.
A white Louisiana police officer was fired on Friday and a second suspended for the killing of Alton Sterling, a black man shot in a 2016 incident that inflamed the U.S. debate on racial bias in ...
As heavy rain fell outside, a steady stream of people filed in the funeral for 37-year-old Alton Sterling who was shot by police last week. Black man shot by Louisiana police mourned in Baton ...
July 17, 2016 at 5:36 PM. At Least 3 Officers Are Dead After a Shooting in Baton Rouge. A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana's capital on Sunday, just days ...
The BRPD has a history of police brutality against Blacks and strained relations with the black community in Baton Rouge. Most recently, in 2016, two BRPD officers shot and killed Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, while trying to detain him.
4. Leon Gary Plauché (November 10, 1945 – October 20, 2014) was an American man known for publicly killing Jeffrey Doucet, a child molester who had kidnapped and raped Plauché's son, Jody. The killing occurred on March 16, 1984 and was captured on camera by a local news crew. Plauché was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five ...