On Wednesday, Louisiana Gov. John Bel-Edwards announced that the US Department of Justice will investigate the killing of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man shot to death by Baton Rouge police. Sterling is the 11th person to be killed by police in Louisiana in 2016, according to a database maintained by the Guardian. There have now been 38 people killed by Louisiana cops since January 2015, the data shows. Of those 38 killed, 21 were black. Louisiana ranked 10th in police-involved killings per capita in 2015, behind the District of Columbia, Wyoming, and New Mexico, which topped the list last year....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/38-police-shootings-louisiana-since-2015
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