*Today on “News One Now,” Host and Managing Editor Roland S. Martin spoke with Baton Rouge activist Arthur Reed about his personal video of the police shooting of 37 year-old Alton Sterling. Reed spoke about the systemic racism and division that has always been present in the Baton Rouge community.
“There are a bunch of lies when it comes down to this being a close knit community, said Reed. “This has been a divided community ever since the Jim Crow era. It’s a community of two different types of Black folks; Black folks who will push the vote and black folks that will stand on the shore and tell us that the vote don’t need pushing. We have two different types of Black folks here in Louisiana and definitely in Baton Rouge.”
Reed also called out Baton Rouge’s Mayor Kip Holden for being supportive of the police and his lack of compassion towards Sterling’s family.
“The mayor has done a poor job of being a part of the Black community,” added Reed. This young man has been murdered, and the mayor has not shown his face at any of the vigils, he has not come out and talked to the family. The mayor is being pro-police knowing that the police have been the biggest agitators and oppressors of the community here in Baton Rouge.”
Also on NewsOne Now, Martin and panelists discussed the police shooting of Philando Castile and viewed a live stream of protestors surrounding the governor’s mansion in protest of the police murder.
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source: Courtney Reed- [email protected]
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