Governor John Bel Edwards calls on federal agencies to investigate the fatal police shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling. Emelie Gunn has more…
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Meanwhile, the leader of the Baton Rouge chapter of NAACP, says Sterling’s family deserves justice as these two police officers did not act in accordance with the law….
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During a press conference earlier this morning, Baton Rouge NAACP president Mike McClanahan called for Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie to resign as a result of the shooting of Alton Sterling. Dabadie says he has worked with McClanahan for the past few years on resolving problems like this, and he believes McClanahan was speaking out of emotion.
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Dabadie says they have turned audio and video evidence of the incident to the US Justice Department so they can conduct a “transparent, neutral investigation.”

Most of Louisiana is under a heat advisory today. Kent Kuyper with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles says temperatures are in the mid to upper 90s this afternoon and we don’t see much of a cool down at night….
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