Killing of Alton Sterling

On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by two Baton Rouge Police Department officers, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Police were responding to a report that Sterling was selling CDs and that he had used a gun to threaten a man outside a convenience store.