Alton Sterling

Tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch to bring charges against the police officers who shot and killed Alton Sterling now. Add your name.

Dear MoveOn member,

News just broke that the FBI and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division will lead an independent investigation into the murder of Alton Sterling—the 37-year-old Black father killed by Baton Rouge police officers.¹

We have to keep up the pressure until these agencies hold the police officers who shot and killed Alton Sterling accountable. Click here to sign and share the petition to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

The Department of Justice must bring charges against the Baton Rouge police officers who killed Alton Sterling. Over and over again, we have been forced to witness the killings of Black people on video without any accountability. Local prosecutors have proven to be almost completely opposed to bringing charges against police.

Now that the Department of Justice is leading the investigation, you have the authority to swiftly resolve this tragedy by prosecuting the officers who treated Alton Sterling's life with such disregard.

Alton Sterling was a 37-year-old Black father of five selling CDs outside of a local store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He did not deserve to die.

Yet here we are again. Another Black man slain by police. Another hashtag carrying the fury and pain of his community. And another family deep in mourning—in the same state that passed the "Blue Lives Matter" bill to silence protests against police violence.²

On Tuesday night, Alton Sterling was selling CDs outside a local store, as he always did, when police arrived on the scene. The police tasered him, held him down on the ground, and shot him in the chest and back. In the witness-recorded video, you can hear one of the officers shouting, "If you f---ing move, I swear to God!"³

These officers have no respect for Black lives and must be held accountable.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thank you.

—Rashad Robinson, ColorOfChange.org

Sources:

1. "Alton Sterling Shooting by Baton Rouge Police Sparks Outrage, DOJ to Investigate," NBC News, July 6, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/4554?t=5&akid=166497.10220574.srb2rX

2. "This law is why Louisiana cops who kill people can go 30 days without being questioned," Fusion, July 6, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/4557?t=7&akid=166497.10220574.srb2rX

3. "Protests erupt in Baton Rouge after black man killed by police," Washington Examiner, July 6, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/4559?t=9&akid=166497.10220574.srb2rX

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