BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Police made dozens of arrests in Louisiana's capital city during weekend protests around the country in which people angry over police killings of young black men sought to block some major interstates. Riot police in full gear stopped a group of protesters in Baton Rouge late Sunday in their attempt to walk onto
Tensions Rise As Protests Over Police Killings Sweep The Nation
Tensions between black citizens and police have risen since last week’s killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, and Philando Castile in Minnesota by white officers, and a retaliatory attack on white police by a black sniper in Dallas that killed five officers and wounded others.