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A former Juvenile Justice Information Exchange reporter, Karen Savage, another journalist and five protesters won’t be charged by the district attorney's office in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, for their 2016 arrest.
The kids don’t have a name for the building at the corner of Gracie and Hurst streets. When they want to make the plans to hang out they just say, “let’s meet at that white house on the corner.”
A chilling email was leaked the day before Louisiana officials announced they would not file criminal charges against two white Baton Rouge police...
The 19-year-old young black woman born in a poor neighborhood called Dixie doesn’t just want to challenge the Good Old Boy network that runs things in this city.
It is easy to imagine that the scene Thursday afternoon in front of the Triple S Food Mart on North Foster Drive in Baton Rouge was similar to the way it was the evening of July 5, 2016, before Alton Sterling was shot to death.
When she was a young mother of two, Tammy Cheney worked double shifts six days a week in order to survive. When her younger children, including Alexus, now 17, and A.J., now 5, came along, she vowed to spend more time with them.
For a few seconds on July 10, the ear-splitting police noisemaker — referred to as an LRAD — and the chants demanding justice for Alton Sterling awkwardly paused at exactly the same moment.
Gavin Long was not among the peaceful crowds on July 10, the week before he savagely murdered three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers.
At least one officer aimed an automatic weapon at protesters Saturday night in Baton Rouge as police clad in riot gear advanced on a group marching toward the Interstate-12 onramp.
A JJIE reporter assigned to cover the protests in Baton Rouge has been arrested. The reporter, Karen Savage, 50, was arrested at approximately 8 p.m. Central Time Sunday.