{"id":28093,"date":"2017-05-03T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=28093"},"modified":"2017-05-03T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T07:02:47","slug":"louisiana-officers-in-black-man-shooting-will-not-be-charged-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/louisiana-officers-in-black-man-shooting-will-not-be-charged-newspapers.html","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana officers in black man shooting will not be charged newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLouisiana officers in black man shooting will not be charged newspapers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
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\n\tThe U.S. Justice Department will not charge two white police officers who fatally shot a black man at close range in Louisiana last year, sparking nationwide protests, the New York Times and Washington Post reported on Tuesday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tDepartment of Justice officials were not immediately available for comment.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe decision is set to focus attention on new U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his approach to civil rights after a series of deadly encounters across the nation in recent years have stoked debate over policing and minorities.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Justice Department has not communicated to anyone a decision regarding the officers involved in the case, spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told CNN.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAlton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was killed after being confronted by Baton Rouge officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake on July 5, 2016, outside a convenience store where he sold CDs. The incident was caught on video.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was unclear how and when the Justice Department would announce its findings, the Washington Post reported, citing four people familiar with the matter.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLawyers for the Sterling family said they had not been informed of a decision.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a vigil on Tuesday night outside the convenience where Sterling was killed, dozens of people joined hands and united in prayers.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"It's been almost a year and we're still suffering like it was yesterday," the victim's aunt, Sandra Sterling, said in a rousing and tearful speech to the crowd. "We need closure. We need conviction. We need justice."<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOutrage over the shooting last summer was stoked by cellphone video footage, captured by bystanders. Protests escalated a day after the Louisiana shooting when a Minnesota police officer fatally shot another black man at a traffic stop, and his girlfriend streamed video on social media.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTensions escalated as demonstrations were organized nationally. At a protest on July 7 in Dallas, five law enforcement officers were fatally shot by an African-American former U.S. serviceman.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThree Baton Rouge police officers died on July 17 in what officials called a calculated attack by a black former Marine, killed in an exchange of gunfire with police.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"I am appalled that this news, whether true or false, has been disseminated without a formal decision being relayed to the Sterling family first," Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome said in a statement on social media.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tsource:-http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-louisiana-police-idUSKBN17Y2LJ<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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