Body/surveillance footage released in Alton Sterling shooting
Baton Rouge Police released police body camera and surveillance videos Friday (March 30) depicting the death of Alton Sterling, who was shot and killed by a Baton Rouge police officer in 2016.
The videos were part of a set of documents and recordings released by Baton Rouge Police, after Chief Murphy Paul announced that the officer who fired the fatal shots, Blane Salamoni, had been fired. The other officer at the scene, who wrestled Sterling to the ground, Howie Lake II, was suspended for three days.
Sterling was killed on July 5, 2016 outside of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge.
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