NAACP Calls on Louisiana to Charge Police Officers Who Shot & Killed Alton Sterling in Viral Video

The NAACP is calling for Louisiana to conduct a thorough investigation and vigorously pursue charges against the police officers who shot Alton Sterling, an African-American father of five who was gunned down by police in 2016. This comes after the Trump Justice Department declined to bring federal charges against officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake. "What's so frightening here is that these investigations, state and federal, are being conducted in an atmosphere of dangerous silence and dangerous presumption," says Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP. "This code of blue prevents people from coming forward. It inhibits a free and frank discussion and testimony with respect to what's happened in so many instances."