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Baton Rouge police shootings

September 2023

  • Two people in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have filed detailed federal civil rights complaints alleging that police brutalized them in this warehouse building nicknamed “the Brave Cave”.

    Louisiana police accused of ‘unconscionable’ abuse in ‘Brave Cave’

    Baton Rouge officers allegedly brutalized and disrobed detainees in storage shed once used for anti-street crime unit

March 2018

  • Baton Rouge Police Chief Announces Disciplinary Decision On Officers Who Shot Alton Sterling<br>BATON ROUGE, LA - MARCH 30: Internal Investigator of the Baton Rouge Police Department Myron Daniels gives remarks at the Baton Rouge Police Station regarding the officers who shot Alton Sterling in 2016 on March 30, 2018 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)

    Police officer who killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge is fired

    Police chief says decision to remove Blake Salamoni over 2016 shooting is ‘based on the facts of the case’ not emotions or politics

31 July 2016

  • Police officers watch protesters gathering against another group of protesters in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday, July 10, 2016. Police officers responded to reports that protesters were en route to block Interstate 10 and prevent another group of protesters from marching. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP)

    Police officers most likely to die responding to domestic disputes

    DoJ report comes amid concerns about the safety of law enforcement officers as report issues recommendations for protective gear and protocol for backup

25 July 2016

  • Umar Shabazz Bey

    The Washitaw sovereign citizens: where the Baton Rouge gunman found a home

    Gavin Long killed three Louisiana police officers. He also claimed membership of a strange and increasingly African American extremist movement

23 July 2016

  • Baton Rouge funeral

    Hundreds gather in Baton Rouge for funeral of officer killed in shooting

    Fellow police officers and loved ones join memorial for Brad Garafola, an officer who ‘went down fighting’, sheriff says

22 July 2016

  • Baton Rouge police badge

    'My blue-eyed rock was a hero': Baton Rouge mourns officer killed in attack

  • ‘When the armored officers rushed at me, I had no fear. I wasn’t afraid.’ Ieshia Evans protesting in Baton Rouge.

    I wasn't afraid. I took a stand in Baton Rouge because enough is enough

    Ieshia Evans

21 July 2016

  • Verbal Judo: ‘A cop’s most dangerous weapon isn’t his 9mm, it’s his tongue’.

    ‘Verbal judo’: the police tactic that teaches cops to talk before they shoot

  • Detroit Chief of Police James Craig, center, greets Dallas Police officers following the funeral mass for Dallas Police officer Michael Krol at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 19, 2016 in Redford Township, Mich. Hundreds of officers from Texas and across Michigan gathered in suburban Detroit for a funeral for Krol, who was among five officers killed this month in Dallas. Krol, a Michigan native, moved to Dallas to become an officer. (Salwan Georges/Detroit Free Press via AP)

    Police departments across US on high alert for online threats against officers

20 July 2016

  • David Brown<br>Dallas Police Chief David Brown speaks during a funeral service for Dallas Police officer Patrick Zamarripa on Saturday, July 16, 2016, at Wilkerson-Greines Athletic Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Zamarripa was one of the five officers killed July 7 by a lone gunman during a march to protest recent fatal shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana by police. (Ashley Landis /The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool)

    It's hard to hear, but the families of shooters grieve too

    Candace Thompson
  • A woman approaches a Dallas police officer standing in front of a makeshift memorial in front of the headquarters of the police department.

    Racial tension, budget cuts and 'war on cops' could hinder police recruiting

19 July 2016

  • Melania Trump and Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention

    First Thing newsletter
    Melania Trump's speech is strikingly similar to Michelle Obama's 2008 address

  • Robert Ossler<br>Crosses hang at a makeshift memorial, Monday, July 18, 2016, at the fatal shooting scene in Baton Rouge, La., where several law enforcement officers were killed on Sunday. A former Marine set out to ambush police in Baton Rouge, authorities said Monday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

    My family was once decimated by a lone gunman. Now the horror is resurfacing

18 July 2016

  • Lauren Rose, Montrell Jackson's Sister-in-law

    'Killing is not going to solve this', says family of Baton Rouge officer fatally shot – video

  • *** BESTPIX *** Republican National Convention: Day One<br>CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 18: Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, takes part in the national anthem on stage before the start of the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicks off on July 18. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

    RNC begins with moment of silence for Baton Rouge police officers – video

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    The second amendment is a recipe for police killings

    Michael Wood
  • Roy Greenslade

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    Press freedom threats in the US prompt writers to sign petition

    Roy Greenslade

  • Baton Rouge police killer was former US marine – video

  • Baton Rouge shooting: dead policeman wrote emotional Facebook post about 'trying times'

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