An Avoyelles Parish man was killed Saturday after he allegedly made bomb threats to his neighbors and destroyed property then barricaded himself in his Evergreen home. Master Trooper Casey Wallace says State Police negotiators and SWAT assisted the sheriff’s office and negotiated with 36-year-old Joshua Nugent for several hours before gunfire was exchanged.
Louisiana has not executed anyone since 2010 but Governor Jeff Landry will push for legislators to find new ways to carry out executions in next month’s special session. Landry says the session will focus on crime and highlight the suffering of victims’ families.
The state has had trouble obtaining the drugs to carry out executions.
To increase public awareness of police misconduct, The ACLU of Louisiana has launched a comprehensive dashboard of police killings and violence. Because there are no mandates for law enforcement to report misconduct, ACLU Data Analyst Elijah Appelson says policing data is difficult. They hope the public will gain a better understanding of the prevalence of police violence in Louisiana and that local agencies can do their own analysis with the data.
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Governor Landry’s K-12 Education Policy council has released its recommendations. Erin Bendily with the Pelican Institute for Public Policy who served on the council says they recommend bolstering teacher recruitment efforts and providing flexible state funding for teacher compensation that would school systems to meet their greatest local workforce needs…