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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 ...
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 ...
79.1 sq mi (205 km 2 ). The Baton Rouge Police Department ( BRPD) (French: Département de Police de Bâton Rouge) is the primary law enforcement agency in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Chief of Police, as of March 8, 2018, was Murphy Paul. The BRPD was formally established in 1865, just after the end of the Civil War, with the ...
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council in Louisiana voted Wednesday night to offer a $4.5 million settlement for the family of Alton Sterling, a Black man shot and killed by police in 2016.
Sterling was shot by a Baton Rouge police officer on July 5, 2016, after a struggle outside a convenience store where he was selling homemade CDs. The death inflamed racial tensions in the city.
ASSOCIATED PRESS. More. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana's capital city have arrested two people for a mass shooting that left 12 others wounded at a nightclub in January. Two 19-year ...
On December 7, 1810, William C. C. Claiborne, governor of the Orleans Territory, annexed the short-lived Republic of West Florida to the United States and Louisiana as Feliciana County. On December 22, 1810, the county west of the Pearl River was organized in four civil parishes: East Baton Rouge, Feliciana, St. Helena, and St. Tammany.
Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge [1] is a photograph of Ieshia Evans, a nurse from Pennsylvania, being arrested by police officers dressed in riot gear during a protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 9 July 2016. The protest began in the aftermath of the shooting by police of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. The image, taken by Jonathan Bachman ...