1 Baton Rouge officer fired in deadly shooting
A Louisiana police chief on Friday fired the white officer who fatally shot a black man during a struggle outside a convenience store nearly two years ago, a killing that set off widespread protests.
Slain black man’s family angry: White officers not charged
Nearly two years after a black man was shot and killed during a struggle with two white police officers, Louisiana’s attorney general isn’t pursuing charges against the officers in a decision that infuriated Alton Sterling’s family and frustrated residents in the neighborhood where he died.
Justice Dept.: No timetable for end of Alton Sterling shooting probe
The Justice Department doesn’t have a timetable for completing its investigation of a black man’s fatal shooting by police during an altercation with two white officers outside a Baton Rouge convenience store more than three months ago, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.