Baton Rouge Settles Civil Suit Over 2016 Protest Crackdown

By Marco Poggio (February 16, 2023, 6:38 PM EST) -- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will pay $1.17 million to two reporters and 12 protesters who alleged they were brutally arrested during a 2016 crackdown on Black Lives Matter demonstrations by the Baton Rouge Police Department in the wake of the police killing of Alton Sterling, their lawyer said Thursday....

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