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• Protesters march through downtown Baton Rouge: See video

  10-07-2016 23:21
  
  In the sixth day of protests following the police officer-involved shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, hundreds of people marched through downtown.
  
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• TIMELINE: Alton Sterling shooting and protests

  10-07-2016 21:05
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Protesters, police clash near downtown; SkyEye 2 above

  10-07-2016 18:56
  
  BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge Police closed streets near downtown and blocked interstate entrance ramps Sunday afternoon as a group of protesters gathered near the intersection of Government Street and East Boulevard.Following a peaceful march from Wesley United Methodist Church on Government Street to the State Capitol earlier, marchers returned to the area near the church and gathered around a house in the 500 block of East Boulevard. A large group flowed onto East Boulevard, bringing SWAT and an
  
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• 50 arrested on Sunday evening, 7 from Baton Rouge

  10-07-2016 18:56
  
  BATON ROUGE - 50 protesters have been booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Sunday evening.Among those arrested, seven of them were from Baton Rouge. Law enforcement arrested people outside of Baton Rouge as far north as New York and Minnesota. In a live interview on WBRZ.com, News 2 reporter Earl Phelps spoke with a protester who said the group was trying to get to I-110 to show passing drivers the magnitude of their message.  Phelps asked, "Don't you know th
  
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• Hungry viewers call for 'Tailgate for Peace' as protests continue

  10-07-2016 18:54
  
  BATON ROUGE – As protests continue across Baton Rouge Sunday afternoon, some WBRZ viewers are coming together to plan a "Tailgate for Peace."The idea for the peaceful potluck was cooked up in an unlikely place: the comments section of a Facebook Live stream. As hungry viewers waited for more than 30 minutes to hear Governor John Bel Edwards address the public at 2:30 p.m. concerning the growing protests, the conversation turned to food. As more than 2,000 people tuned
  
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• What about Philando Castile's Second Amendment rights?

  10-07-2016 14:55
  
  Twice within a 24-hour span this week police have shot and killed someone possessing a concealed weapon. On Tuesday (July 5), two Baton Rouge police officers, while on top of the suspect, ended the life of Alton Sterling after discovering a...
  
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• Video shows police making protest arrest at home

  10-07-2016 13:49
  
  BATON ROUGE - A woman who rents a home near Government Street yelled at police who went on private property to arrest protesters Sunday evening.Protesters and police clashed as protesters apparently tried to make their way to I-110 via Government Street and side streets in the Beauregard Town area. People held signs and yelled at police as passing cars' horns honked.The protests were related to on-going rallies concerning the shooting death of Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge Police Tuesday.&nb
  
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• Activist DeRay Mckesson live-streamed arrest in Baton Rouge

  10-07-2016 13:17
  
  BATON ROUGE - A prominent police reform advocate was booked into jail for obstructing either Airline Highway or Goodwood Boulevard overnight, authorities wrote in arrest documents obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit Sunday.     > Read the arrest document HERE.DeRay Mckesson of Campaign Zero was arrested after authorities said he stepping into the road after being warned not to step into traffic.  Mckesson and hundreds of others gathered out
  
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• Sunday night, protesters return to police headquarters

  10-07-2016 13:09
  
  BATON ROUGE - Protesters gathered again overnight Sunday outside of Baton Rouge Police Headquarters on Airline Highway near Goodwood.Sunday was the third night protesters have stood along the highway. Sunday's gathering was not as large as a protest there Saturday, which resulted in the arrest of 102 people. Protesters started chanting and holding signs against police Friday. They are angry over the shooting death of Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge Police Tuesday outside a North Baton Rouge conven
  
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• Church near Alton Sterling shooting prays for peace

  10-07-2016 12:50
  
  BATON ROUGE - Reverend Leo D. Cyrus, Sr. has been in the pulpit at New Hope Baptist Church for more than 40-years. Just one block away from his church is the Triple S Food Mart were Alton Sterling was killed."It was prayer and peaceful marches that brought us through the 60's and that is what's going to take us through these turbulent times," Rev. Cyrus said.The minister and other preachers have been meeting with law enforcement and Governor Edwards about the Sterling shooting.He wants
  
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• March to Capitol, other protests Sunday in Baton Rouge

  10-07-2016 12:20
  
  BATON ROUGE - A youth-led march took to the streets of Baton Rouge Sunday afternoon.Louisiana Progress Action marched with a group from Wesley United Methodist Church to the State Capitol at 4 p.m.  The group said it is demanding justice for Alton Sterling.  Sterling was shot and killed by Baton Rouge Police last week. Shot from #SkyEye2 of demonstrators on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol this afternoon. @WBRZ pic.twitter.com/UwMCt373Hv&m
  
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• Baton Rouge police skirmish with protesters as arrests spike

  10-07-2016 06:59
  
  Protesters were complained that police were making indiscriminate arrests.
  
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• Police make more arrests in Alton Sterling shooting protests in Baton Rouge

  10-07-2016 04:05
  
  The protests were held to call attention to the police-involved shooting death of Alton Sterling, who was killed during an arrest attempt early Tuesday.
  
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• Police make 5 arrests in Alton Sterling shooting protests in Baton Rouge

  10-07-2016 04:05
  
  The protests were held to call attention to the police-involved shooting death of Alton Sterling, who was killed during an arrest attempt early Tuesday.
  
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