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Alton Sterling case: Baton Rouge nixes $5M settlement offer

by Associated Press
| September 10, 2020 6:30 PM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Attorneys representing the children of Alton Sterling, a Black man fatally shot by a Baton Rouge police officer in 2016, said Thursday that a decision by local officials against offering $5 million to settle a pending civil case showed they were uninformed about the matter.

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