World & Nation
July 6, 2016
Sports
LSU informed its student-athletes Wednesday that they are free to publicly express their opinions on the Department of Justice’s decision not to bring federal charges against white police officers who were involved in the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a black man, last year in Baton Rouge, La.
May 4, 2017
Kept under wraps for nearly two years, body camera footage of a police officer killing Alton Sterling shows the officer threatening to shoot the man and screaming profanities before firing the fatal shots that stoked protests across the nation.
March 30, 2018
A steady stream of mourners filed past the casket of Alton Sterling, the 37-year-old black man who was shot to death by two white police officers as he was pinned to the pavement outside a convenience store.
July 15, 2016
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.
March 27, 2018
The fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling by two white police officers — as the black CD salesman was apparently pinned to the ground — quickly sent angry protesters into the streets of the Louisiana capital and prompted the U.S.
The Times’ Molly Hennessy-Fiske talks to people at the scene of a Baton Rouge convienience store where Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police on Tuesday.
Music
The superstar artist Beyoncé is the latest and most high-profile musician to issue a statement in response to the recent police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in the suburbs of St.
July 7, 2016
Louisiana’s attorney general has ruled out criminal charges against two white Baton Rouge police officers in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling.
The Department of Justice said Wednesday that it will not bring federal charges against white police officers involved in the high-profile shooting of a black man last year in Baton Rouge, La., that had ignited protests around the country over the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police officers.
May 3, 2017