By Dave Alsup, Joshua Berlinger and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Updated 1344 GMT (2144 HKT) July 6, 2016
(CNN)[Breaking news alert, posted at 9:43 a.m. ET Wednesday]
The president of the NAACP's branch in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, called for the city's police chief and chief executive to resign in the wake of the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man. "We're actually here today to speak to the culture of the Baton Rouge Police Department. This incident is only one incident in many," Michael McClanahan told reporters Wednesday. "What we're going to do is root out the 1% of bad police officers that go around being the judge, the jury and executioner of innocent people, period, but more specifically, innocent black lives."
[Previous story, posted at 9:08 a.m. ET Wednesday]
The graphic video shows a deadly encounter outside a convenience store.
Two police officers pin down Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, then shoot him as he lies on the ground.
The video, shared widely on social media, quickly sparked local protests and drew national attention. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police say they came to the scene early Tuesday after an anonymous 911 caller reported a man threatening him with a gun.
Accounts of what happened next depend on whom you ask.
Sterling is dead. Authorities are investigating. And many questions remain unanswered. Edmond Jordan, an attorney representing Sterling's family, said the video of the shooting raises troubling questions. "I think that the city is going to have to give us some good answers," Jordan, who is also a Louisiana state legislator, told CNN. "And I don't know if they'll be able to." Sterling's family, he said, has seen the video of the shooting.
"(They) are taking it hard right now ... overwhelmed with grief," he said.
The video
The video starts with the camera facing a car dashboard. A single pop is heard, and then someone yells, "Get on the ground."
Another pop follows.
The camera then pans up to two officers confronting a man in a red shirt, which Jordan says is Sterling. One officer brings Sterling to the ground. Once he's down, the officer begins to assist a second officer in restraining Sterling.
Still frames from the video that appears to show Alton Sterling being shot to death.
"He's got a gun," someone says seconds later.
An officer can be seen drawing something from his waist -- it's not clear what the object is.
More yelling ensues, after which two bangs can be heard. The video appears to have been recorded by a witness in a nearby car.
Those inside the car react. Three more bangs can be heard, and a woman in the car starts crying.
Police: Detectives reviewing video
Baton Rouge police told CNN that detectives will review the video.
They say the video was not sent to the department but was released to the media and posted online.
Police said the officers involved have been placed on administrative leave, a standard practice following an officer-involved shooting.
The owner of the convenience store where Sterling was killed said he's sure the shooting was caught on his store's surveillance cameras, though he hasn't seen it. Police took the video later Tuesday, he told CNN.
A preliminary autopsy found Sterling's cause of death was from "multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back," East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William "Beau" Clark told CNN on Wednesday. He declined to provide additional details about how many gunshot wounds Sterling sustained.
A full autopsy will be completed over the next 60 to 90 days, Clark said, pending toxicology results. The report then will be handed over to law enforcement, he said.
The 'CD man' Sterling was known as the "CD man," a laid-back guy who would sell tunes and DVDs outside the convenience store where he was shot, according to local media.
"Alton was a respected man. He was beloved in the community. He did not deserve the treatment and this excessive force that was exerted on him by the police department," Jordan, his attorney, told CNN. Now Sterling's family is "grieving and mourning for an unnecessary loss of life," the attorney said.
"Alton was out there selling CDs, trying to make a living. He was doing it with the permission of the store owner, so he wasn't trespassing or anything like that. He wasn't involved in any criminal conduct," Jordan said.
Abdullah Muflahi, the owner of the Triple S Food Mart, told CNN he's known Sterling for six years.
Muflahi let him sell CDs in front of the store. He said Sterling never got into fights.
Muflahi said he saw the officers slam Sterling on a car. "They told him not to move," he said. "He was asking them what he did wrong." He said the officers then used a stun gun on Sterling at least once before shooting. Both got on top of him, and one ordered him not to move. The one closest to Sterling's legs yelled "gun," and the shots followed. After the shooting, Muflahi said an officer reached into Sterling's pocket and pulled out a gun.
When it was over, Muflahi said he heard the officers talking on the scene, saying they had been called there due to a complaint that Sterling had pulled a gun on someone.
But Muflahi said he never saw a confrontation between Sterling and anyone. And he wasn't aware of any incident that someone would have called about.
"Just five minutes before," Muflahi said, "he walked into the store getting something to drink, joking around, (and we were) calling each other names."
Alton Sterling shooting: Video of deadly encounter with officers sparks outrage
By Dave Alsup, Joshua Berlinger and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Updated 1344 GMT (2144 HKT) July 6, 2016
Graphic video shows police shooting
Graphic video shows police shooting 01:53
Story highlights
Preliminary autopsy: "Multiple gunshot wounds" were cause of death
"The city is going to have to give us some good answers," attorney says
(CNN)[Breaking news alert, posted at 9:43 a.m. ET Wednesday]
The president of the NAACP's branch in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, called for the city's police chief and chief executive to resign in the wake of the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man. "We're actually here today to speak to the culture of the Baton Rouge Police Department. This incident is only one incident in many," Michael McClanahan told reporters Wednesday. "What we're going to do is root out the 1% of bad police officers that go around being the judge, the jury and executioner of innocent people, period, but more specifically, innocent black lives."
[Previous story, posted at 9:08 a.m. ET Wednesday]
The graphic video shows a deadly encounter outside a convenience store.
Two police officers pin down Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, then shoot him as he lies on the ground. The video, shared widely on social media, quickly sparked local protests and drew national attention.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police say they came to the scene early Tuesday after an anonymous 911 caller reported a man threatening him with a gun.
Accounts of what happened next depend on whom you ask.
Sterling is dead. Authorities are investigating. And many questions remain unanswered.
Edmond Jordan, an attorney representing Sterling's family, said the video of the shooting raises troubling questions.
"I think that the city is going to have to give us some good answers," Jordan, who is also a Louisiana state legislator, told CNN. "And I don't know if they'll be able to."
Sterling's family, he said, has seen the video of the shooting.
"(They) are taking it hard right now ... overwhelmed with grief," he said.
CNN Map
The video
The video starts with the camera facing a car dashboard. A single pop is heard, and then someone yells, "Get on the ground."
Another pop follows.
The camera then pans up to two officers confronting a man in a red shirt, which Jordan says is Sterling. One officer brings Sterling to the ground. Once he's down, the officer begins to assist a second officer in restraining Sterling.
Still frames from the video that appears to show Alton Sterling being shot to death.
"He's got a gun," someone says seconds later. An officer can be seen drawing something from his waist -- it's not clear what the object is.
More yelling ensues, after which two bangs can be heard. The video appears to have been recorded by a witness in a nearby car. Those inside the car react. Three more bangs can be heard, and a woman in the car starts crying.
Jordan told CNN there will be a news conference Wednesday morning at Baton Rouge City Hall to discuss the shooting.
The local chapter of the NAACP, Sterling's aunt, Sandra Sterling, and state Rep. C. Denise Marcelle are expected to be there.
Briefed by the police chief, Marcelle told CNN affiliate WAFB-TV that the officers were wearing body cameras but the cameras fell off during the struggle and did not capture the shooting.
Jordan, the family attorney, also told CNN he's heard the officers' body cameras fell off in the struggle. A local congressman, U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, said in a statement he will call on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate. "The video footage released today of the shooting of Alton Sterling by officers of the Baton Rouge Police Department was deeply troubling and has understandably evoked strong emotion and anger in our community," Richmond said. "I ask the leaders and citizens of Baton Rouge to join me in demonstrating our anger with dignity and demanding proper focus on our cause with perseverance. His family and the citizens of Baton Rouge -- especially the citizens of North Baton Rouge -- deserve answers and that is what we will seek in a fair, thorough, and transparent way."
Poll: 1 in 5 African-Americans report 'unfair' dealings with police in last month
Protesters took to the streets in Baton Rouge near where Sterling was killed after news of his death spread.
Members of Sterling's family were among them, Jordan told CNN. "Pretty much everybody who knows him knows he's a sweet person," his sister, Mignon Chambers, told CNN affiliate WVLA-TV. "It wasn't right, and something needs to be done." The protests were largely peaceful, according to local media. Some streets were shut down, a few individuals spoke and those on the scene mostly played music and chanted. "We ain't running from this," one man could be heard telling the crowd. "We gonna pray first, but we gonna stand tonight. We gonna stand tomorrow. And we gonna stand as a community."
CNN's Polo Sandoval, Chuck Johnston, Sheena Jones and Donie O'Sullivan contributed to this report.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/06/us/baton-rouge-shooting-alton-sterling/index.html
Updated 1344 GMT (2144 HKT) July 6, 2016
(CNN)[Breaking news alert, posted at 9:43 a.m. ET Wednesday]
The president of the NAACP's branch in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, called for the city's police chief and chief executive to resign in the wake of the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man. "We're actually here today to speak to the culture of the Baton Rouge Police Department. This incident is only one incident in many," Michael McClanahan told reporters Wednesday. "What we're going to do is root out the 1% of bad police officers that go around being the judge, the jury and executioner of innocent people, period, but more specifically, innocent black lives."
[Previous story, posted at 9:08 a.m. ET Wednesday]
The graphic video shows a deadly encounter outside a convenience store.
Two police officers pin down Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, then shoot him as he lies on the ground.
The video, shared widely on social media, quickly sparked local protests and drew national attention. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police say they came to the scene early Tuesday after an anonymous 911 caller reported a man threatening him with a gun.
Accounts of what happened next depend on whom you ask.
Sterling is dead. Authorities are investigating. And many questions remain unanswered. Edmond Jordan, an attorney representing Sterling's family, said the video of the shooting raises troubling questions. "I think that the city is going to have to give us some good answers," Jordan, who is also a Louisiana state legislator, told CNN. "And I don't know if they'll be able to." Sterling's family, he said, has seen the video of the shooting.
"(They) are taking it hard right now ... overwhelmed with grief," he said.
The video
The video starts with the camera facing a car dashboard. A single pop is heard, and then someone yells, "Get on the ground."
Another pop follows.
The camera then pans up to two officers confronting a man in a red shirt, which Jordan says is Sterling. One officer brings Sterling to the ground. Once he's down, the officer begins to assist a second officer in restraining Sterling.
Still frames from the video that appears to show Alton Sterling being shot to death.
"He's got a gun," someone says seconds later.
An officer can be seen drawing something from his waist -- it's not clear what the object is.
More yelling ensues, after which two bangs can be heard. The video appears to have been recorded by a witness in a nearby car.
Those inside the car react. Three more bangs can be heard, and a woman in the car starts crying.
Police: Detectives reviewing video
Baton Rouge police told CNN that detectives will review the video.
They say the video was not sent to the department but was released to the media and posted online.
Police said the officers involved have been placed on administrative leave, a standard practice following an officer-involved shooting.
The owner of the convenience store where Sterling was killed said he's sure the shooting was caught on his store's surveillance cameras, though he hasn't seen it. Police took the video later Tuesday, he told CNN.
A preliminary autopsy found Sterling's cause of death was from "multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back," East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William "Beau" Clark told CNN on Wednesday. He declined to provide additional details about how many gunshot wounds Sterling sustained.
A full autopsy will be completed over the next 60 to 90 days, Clark said, pending toxicology results. The report then will be handed over to law enforcement, he said.
The 'CD man' Sterling was known as the "CD man," a laid-back guy who would sell tunes and DVDs outside the convenience store where he was shot, according to local media.
"Alton was a respected man. He was beloved in the community. He did not deserve the treatment and this excessive force that was exerted on him by the police department," Jordan, his attorney, told CNN. Now Sterling's family is "grieving and mourning for an unnecessary loss of life," the attorney said.
"Alton was out there selling CDs, trying to make a living. He was doing it with the permission of the store owner, so he wasn't trespassing or anything like that. He wasn't involved in any criminal conduct," Jordan said.
Abdullah Muflahi, the owner of the Triple S Food Mart, told CNN he's known Sterling for six years.
Muflahi let him sell CDs in front of the store. He said Sterling never got into fights.
Muflahi said he saw the officers slam Sterling on a car. "They told him not to move," he said. "He was asking them what he did wrong." He said the officers then used a stun gun on Sterling at least once before shooting. Both got on top of him, and one ordered him not to move. The one closest to Sterling's legs yelled "gun," and the shots followed. After the shooting, Muflahi said an officer reached into Sterling's pocket and pulled out a gun.
When it was over, Muflahi said he heard the officers talking on the scene, saying they had been called there due to a complaint that Sterling had pulled a gun on someone.
But Muflahi said he never saw a confrontation between Sterling and anyone. And he wasn't aware of any incident that someone would have called about.
"Just five minutes before," Muflahi said, "he walked into the store getting something to drink, joking around, (and we were) calling each other names."
Alton Sterling shooting: Video of deadly encounter with officers sparks outrage
By Dave Alsup, Joshua Berlinger and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Updated 1344 GMT (2144 HKT) July 6, 2016
Graphic video shows police shooting
Graphic video shows police shooting 01:53
Story highlights
Preliminary autopsy: "Multiple gunshot wounds" were cause of death
"The city is going to have to give us some good answers," attorney says
(CNN)[Breaking news alert, posted at 9:43 a.m. ET Wednesday]
The president of the NAACP's branch in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, called for the city's police chief and chief executive to resign in the wake of the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man. "We're actually here today to speak to the culture of the Baton Rouge Police Department. This incident is only one incident in many," Michael McClanahan told reporters Wednesday. "What we're going to do is root out the 1% of bad police officers that go around being the judge, the jury and executioner of innocent people, period, but more specifically, innocent black lives."
[Previous story, posted at 9:08 a.m. ET Wednesday]
The graphic video shows a deadly encounter outside a convenience store.
Two police officers pin down Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, then shoot him as he lies on the ground. The video, shared widely on social media, quickly sparked local protests and drew national attention.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police say they came to the scene early Tuesday after an anonymous 911 caller reported a man threatening him with a gun.
Accounts of what happened next depend on whom you ask.
Sterling is dead. Authorities are investigating. And many questions remain unanswered.
Edmond Jordan, an attorney representing Sterling's family, said the video of the shooting raises troubling questions.
"I think that the city is going to have to give us some good answers," Jordan, who is also a Louisiana state legislator, told CNN. "And I don't know if they'll be able to."
Sterling's family, he said, has seen the video of the shooting.
"(They) are taking it hard right now ... overwhelmed with grief," he said.
CNN Map
The video
The video starts with the camera facing a car dashboard. A single pop is heard, and then someone yells, "Get on the ground."
Another pop follows.
The camera then pans up to two officers confronting a man in a red shirt, which Jordan says is Sterling. One officer brings Sterling to the ground. Once he's down, the officer begins to assist a second officer in restraining Sterling.
Still frames from the video that appears to show Alton Sterling being shot to death.
"He's got a gun," someone says seconds later. An officer can be seen drawing something from his waist -- it's not clear what the object is.
More yelling ensues, after which two bangs can be heard. The video appears to have been recorded by a witness in a nearby car. Those inside the car react. Three more bangs can be heard, and a woman in the car starts crying.
Jordan told CNN there will be a news conference Wednesday morning at Baton Rouge City Hall to discuss the shooting.
The local chapter of the NAACP, Sterling's aunt, Sandra Sterling, and state Rep. C. Denise Marcelle are expected to be there.
Briefed by the police chief, Marcelle told CNN affiliate WAFB-TV that the officers were wearing body cameras but the cameras fell off during the struggle and did not capture the shooting.
Jordan, the family attorney, also told CNN he's heard the officers' body cameras fell off in the struggle. A local congressman, U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, said in a statement he will call on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate. "The video footage released today of the shooting of Alton Sterling by officers of the Baton Rouge Police Department was deeply troubling and has understandably evoked strong emotion and anger in our community," Richmond said. "I ask the leaders and citizens of Baton Rouge to join me in demonstrating our anger with dignity and demanding proper focus on our cause with perseverance. His family and the citizens of Baton Rouge -- especially the citizens of North Baton Rouge -- deserve answers and that is what we will seek in a fair, thorough, and transparent way."
Poll: 1 in 5 African-Americans report 'unfair' dealings with police in last month
Protesters took to the streets in Baton Rouge near where Sterling was killed after news of his death spread.
Members of Sterling's family were among them, Jordan told CNN. "Pretty much everybody who knows him knows he's a sweet person," his sister, Mignon Chambers, told CNN affiliate WVLA-TV. "It wasn't right, and something needs to be done." The protests were largely peaceful, according to local media. Some streets were shut down, a few individuals spoke and those on the scene mostly played music and chanted. "We ain't running from this," one man could be heard telling the crowd. "We gonna pray first, but we gonna stand tonight. We gonna stand tomorrow. And we gonna stand as a community."
CNN's Polo Sandoval, Chuck Johnston, Sheena Jones and Donie O'Sullivan contributed to this report.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/06/us/baton-rouge-shooting-alton-sterling/index.html
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