By Cameron Jenkins - 02/23/21 10:12 AM EST
A video posted to social media showing a Louisiana police officer pinning a 13-year-old boy to the ground with his arm under his neck during an arrest has sparked an investigation.
In the video, which has been circulated on Twitter, an unidentified Baton Rouge, La., police officer is seen on the ground over a young boy with his arm around the boy s neck. In the background of the video onlookers can be heard saying He s a boy, get off of him! and You re choking him, according to CNN.
The clip also shows the officer then placing the teen in a sitting position and pulling his arms behind his back. The short video does not show what happened leading up to the arrest or after, CNN reported.
$4.5M Settlement Offered in Police Shooting of Alton Sterling in Louisiana February 17, 2021
After a $5 million proposed settlement fell through, officials in a Louisiana parish are now offering $4.5 million to settle the civil lawsuit brought by the family of Alton Sterling, a Black man who was killed in 2016 by police who approached him while he was selling homemade CDs in front of a convenience store.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council voted 7-4 in favor of offering the multimillion-dollar settlement to the family of Alton Sterling, news outlets reported.
Sterling’s death had inflamed racial tensions in Louisiana’s capital, cast a national spotlight on the history of strained relations between police and Black residents of Baton Rouge and sparked widespread protests.
Title: Victor Trammell for Your Black World | Photo credits: The Chicago Crusader/Family of Alton Sterling
Alton Sterling (pictured right) was brutally killed by Baton Rouge, Louisiana police over four years ago.
Not a single person was ever held legally accountable in court for killing Sterling, a 37-year-old father. Now the East Baton Rouge Metro Council in Louisiana has voted on a $4.5 million settlement for his family.
According to ABC, the city council voted 7-4 in favor of the settlement after Sterling’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the municipality and its Baton Rouge Police Department.
“I am pleased our metro council was able to find a consensus and approve an offer of settlement in the Alton Sterling civil case. After nearly five years, the people of Baton Rouge are finally one step closer to getting much-needed closure in this traumatic episode in our history,” Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome said in a statement,
Baton Rouge offers settlement to family of Alton Sterling five years after police fatally shot Black man KATE FELDMAN
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council in Louisiana voted Wednesday night to offer a $4.5 million settlement for the family of Alton Sterling, a Black man shot and killed by police in 2016.
The council voted 7-4 to approve the offer to settle the wrongful death lawsuit brought against the city and the Baton Rouge Police Department.
“I am pleased our metro council was able to find a consensus and approve an offer of settlement in the Alton Sterling civil case. After nearly five years, the people of Baton Rouge are finally one step closer to getting much needed closure in this traumatic episode in our history,” Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome said in a statement.