*Obviously it was beyond difficult for Cameron Sterling to say goodbye to his father, Alton Sterling, the man who was killed on camera by Baton Rouge police outside a convenience store. The youngster broke down crying at his father’s open casket funeral on Friday.
The 15-year-old simply broke down in tears during the funeral as the Reverend Jesse Jackson attempted to console him.
Both Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton spoke at the funeral as well, praising Sterling’s family for remaining strong as they called for justice but also for peace.
“Despite the fact that a grave injustice has happened, you have held your heads high with great dignity and with a example of what this nation should be. But let us not beat around the bush. This is wrong,” Sharpton said.
“I don’t care how saved you are, how holy you are, wrong is wrong. And some of us are so busy (trying) to get past this (but) you can’t get past it until you deal with it. Wrong must be corrected and the wrong must be held accountable,” Sharpton added.
Sharpton also spoke on other recent shootings, saying that the deaths had to stop.
“We have got to stop going from funeral to funeral, and America needs to deal when wrong is wrong, and whoever does the wrong needs to pay the price for doing wrong,” he said.
Alton Sterling’s death heightened tensions in Baton Rouge, where about 200 protesters were arrested over the weekend, and police said they had foiled a credible threat to attack officers. Authorities said they discovered the plot after a pawn shop burglary, and one of the suspects was to appear in court Friday.
Meanwhile, authorities said they discovered the alleged plot against them after four suspects broke into a pawn shop and stole guns. One of the suspects said they did so to harm officers; another one said he did it to sell the guns, authorities said.
Malik Bridgewater, 20, is scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal court on Friday. Police arrested Bridgewater and two other suspects on theft and burglary charges after eight handguns were stolen.
Bridgewater told investigators his motivation was to sell stolen items for cash, an agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wrote in an affidavit filed Thursday in federal court.
State and local law enforcement officials said during a news conference Tuesday that the stolen guns were part of a credible threat to harm police officers.
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