The Latest: Black Lives Matter activist McKesson arrested
The Advocate says Mckesson was filming live video of the protest and walking alongside Airline Highway when he was arrested.
Riot police at one point came out in the evening and faced off against the protesters as more than 20 police cars, blue lights flashing were on the other side of the street.
The demonstrators were angry over the death of Alton Sterling, who was shot and killed during a videotaped altercation with two white police officers in a convenience store parking lot.
The demonstrators gathered Saturday to protest the shooting death of a black man, Alton Sterling, by two white police officers at a convenience store parking lot last week.
Hundreds of people are gathered at a Baton Rouge convenience store for another day of protest at the site where a black man, Alton Sterling, died at the hands of two white police officers.
Protests were set to resume in Baton Rouge on Saturday, hours after demonstrations over a video-recorded police shooting produced tense moments resulting in 30 arrests.
Baton Rouge police have issued a statement saying they are investigating a newspaper website's video that appears to show an officer with his weapon temporarily drawn at one point early Saturday morning as angry protesters confronted police.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office released a list of 30 people arrested in the demonstrations — most for obstructing a highway, but three for inciting to riot.