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Outrage after video captures white Baton Rouge police officer fatally shooting a black man
Officials in Baton Rouge moved quickly on Wednesday to quell national outrage at what is the latest in a string of fatal police encounters captured on video — the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man. By Wesley Lowery, Travis M. Andrews and Michael E. Miller.
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Baton Rouge police shooting leads to federal investigation
The U.S. Justice Department will lead the investigation into the killing of a black man shot to death by Baton Rouge police, Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards announced Wednesday.
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I hope that the video showing the murder will carry some weight, but the "justice" system seems keen to keep facts from interfering with whatever it is that we pay them for. I fear that I'm becoming more cynical by the day.
I predict this will be another in the long line of whitewashes when the grand jury will not indict.