BATON ROUGE, La. But experts in police tactics think the bloodshed could have been avoided if the Baton Rouge officers had done more to defuse the encounter with Alton Sterling. They say poor police tactics and techniques may have aggravated the volatile confrontation, which lasted less than 90 seconds. “These cops in Baton Rouge, in Sacramento, everywhere, are doing what they’ve been taught to do. Federal authorities consulted two independent experts who concluded the Baton Rouge officers, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, employed poor tactics.

Source: National Post March 29, 2018 17:07 UTC