Louisiana will not charge officers in Alton Sterling shooting death
by Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times
Mar 27, 2018
3 minutes
More than 20 months after the fatal police shooting of a black man outside a Baton Rouge mini-mart touched off protests nationwide over police treatment of African-Americans, the Louisiana attorney general said Tuesday that he would not charge two white officers in the death.
The decision from Attorney General Jeff Landry's office brought strong condemnation from Alton Sterling's family and civil rights activists, and closed the possibility of criminal charges in one of the most prominent police shootings in recent years.
Landry's announcement came close to 11 months after the U.S. Department of Justice similarly
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