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Deep South Portfolio: Baton Rouge-A Turbulent Summer

  • A protester yells at police in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters after police arrived in riot gear to clear protesters from the street in Baton Rouge, La. USA, Saturday, July 09, 2016. The starting point of Saturday's demonstration was the convenience store where 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black CD seller, was captured on video being shot and killed by white police on July 5th. Protesters then fanned out to the Baton Rouge Police Department and the State Capitol. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • Ieshia Evans, 35, is grabbed by police officers in riot gear after she refused to leave the motor way in front of the the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters in Baton Rouge, La. USA, Saturday, July 09, 2016. Spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office said 101 people were taken to the parish jail in connection with the protests Saturday. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • Baton Rouge police officers arrest a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, DeRay Mckesson, for allegedly obstructing a highway during a protest in support of justice for Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La. Saturday, July 9, 2016. Video shot by Mckesson in the moments before his arrest show him walking alongside Airline Highway on his way back to the main area where the protests were going on when he was arrested. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • An armored police truck leads a troop of police through a residential neighborhood near a major highway after clearing protestors from the area in Baton Rouge, La. USA, on Sunday, July 10, 2016. Some 30 to 40 people were taken into custody for trying to block a highway, sheriff's spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks said. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he doesn't believe officers have been overly aggressive by using riot gear to push protesters off a highway. {quote}The police tactics in response have been very moderate. I'm very proud of that,{quote} said Edwards (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • Sandra Sterling, the aunt of Alton Sterling, a black CD seller captured on video being shot and killed by a white police officer on July 5th, cries out after viewing his body at the F.G. Clark Activity Center in Baton Rouge, La. USA, Friday, July 15, 2016. Rev. Al Sharpton, who spoke at the roughly three hour service, called for more accountability for police officers who kill African-Americans and reeled off a list of high-profile police shootings that have angered many in the black community: {quote}We have an inferior judicial system that does not protect all of its citizens equally.{quote} (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • Police stop a car and direct the driver to show his hands after coming from the direction of a police shooting on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, La. USA, on Sunday, July 17, 2016. The driver's car was searched, his identification checked, then he was allowed to continue. Three officers are confirmed dead and three others wounded after a shooting in Baton Rouge, Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office said. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • Hand written notes and mementos have been left at a makeshift memorial in front of the B-Quick convenience store after 3 law enforcement officers were killed by a gunman on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. USA, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. According to authorities from the East Baton Parish Sheriff's Office the three deceased officers were identified as Baton Rouge Police officers Matthew Gerald, 41, of Denham Springs and Montrell Jackson, 32, and Brad Garafola, 45, of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. (Max Becherer/Polaris)
  • Bloodstains remain behind the Hair Crown Beauty Supply business where police officers were shot and killed Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. USA, Monday, July 18, 2016. According to Col. Michael Edmonson, the superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, 29-year-old Gavin Eugene Long was wearing all black and carrying a rifle when officers first encountered him at about 8:40 a.m. Shots were reported fired two minutes later, and the first report of an officer down came in two minutes after that. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • East Baton Rouge Sheriff officer Eddie Guidry, left, is hugged by a teary Terri Carney, both members of The Rock Church on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, during a prayer vigil for the officers killed and wounded by a gunman on Sunday in Zachary, La. USA, Monday, July 18, 2016. About 100 people came to the special hour-long prayer vigil. Col. Michael Edmonson, superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, said at a news conference that day: “There is no doubt whatsoever that these officers were intentionally targeted and assassinated.{quote} (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • Trenisha Jackson, widow of slain Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson departs the Living Faith Christian Center as she watches her husband's coffin being loaded into a hearse at the conclusion of his funeral in Baton Rouge, La. USA, Monday, July 25, 2016. Multiple police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here, sparking nightly protests across the city. Speaking at the funeral of her fallen husband, Montrell Jackson, Trenisha Jackson said, {quote}I know that there is fear and unrest among those who feel like all police are bad, but please know and understand that not all police are bad. If you have been wronged by an officer, call them out by saying that particular officer's name.{quote} As for her husband she said, {quote}My husband deserved to wear his badge.{quote} (Max Becherer/Polaris)
  • East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and his wife are reflected in the glass of the horse-drawn carriage carrying the casket of East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Deputy Brad Garafola at the Istrouma Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La. USA, Saturday, July 23, 2016. Garafola is survived by a wife and four children; sons ages 21 and 12; and daughters ages 15 and 7. {quote}When that assassin's bullet targeted our heroes — and he was an assassin — he not only targeted them, he targeted the city. He targeted his country, and it touched the soul of the entire nation,{quote} Vice President of the United States Joe Biden said at a memorial for the three slain officers six days later. (Max Becherer/AP)
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