Across the U.S., protests over police killings aim at occupying interstate highways - News Summed Up

Across the U.S., protests over police killings aim at occupying interstate highways


By Sunday night, a few hundred people aimed for an on-ramp of Interstate 110 in Baton Rouge. BATON ROUGE, La. Some of the recent demonstrations in Baton Rouge began at the convenience store where 37-year-old Alton Sterling was killed while two police subdued him. RelatedBut most of those detained live in Louisiana — the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas mostly — and faced a single charge of obstructing a highway, the sheriff’s spokeswoman Hicks said. The arrests brought the count to more than 160 taken into custody in recent days in the Louisiana capital.


Source: National Post July 11, 2016 12:22 UTC



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