A prominent Black Lives Matter activist and 100 other people were taken into custody, authorities said Sunday, after protesters took to the streets to call for justice and voice anger over the fatal shooting of an African-American man by two white police officers.
Spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office told The Associated Press that 101 people were taken to the parish jail in connection with the protests that began Saturday. No information was immediately available on what charges they faced or whether some people were later released.
Among those arrested was DeRay Mckesson, according to an Associated Press reporter who was at the scene. Mckesson is a leading figure in the Black Lives Matter movement that blossomed in the wake of the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri at the hands of police.
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