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FILE - In this July 5, 2016, file image taken from video, Alton Sterling is restrained by two Baton Rouge police officers, one holding a gun, outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La. The Baton Rouge police chief is apologizing to the city and to the family of a black man shot and killed by a former police officer in 2016. Chief Murphy Paul said at a Thursday, Aug. 1,2019, news conference that Officer Blane Salamoni should have never been hired. (Arthur Reed via AP, File)

Chief apologizes over hiring of officer who shot black man

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

FILE - In this still image taken from security camera video provided March 30, 2018, by the Baton Rouge Police Department, officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II confront Alton Sterling, left, during a struggle outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., in July 2016. An attorney for Salamoni, says he filed the appeal with a civil service board Thursday, April 12. Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul fired Salamoni on March 30, less than a week after Louisiana's attorney general ruled out state criminal charges in Alton Sterling's July 2016 shooting death.(Courtesy of Baton Rouge Police Department via AP)

Officer appeals firing in Alton Sterling’s fatal shooting

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 5, 2016 image made from video provided by Arthur Reed, Alton Sterling is restrained by two Baton Rouge police officers, one holding a gun, outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La. Moments later, one of the officers shot and killed Sterling, a black man who had been selling CDs outside the store, while he was on the ground. The investigation of the deadly police shooting that inflamed racial tensions in Louisiana’s capital city has ended without criminal charges against two white officers who confronted Sterling. . Experts in police tactics think the bloodshed could have been avoided if the Baton Rouge officers had done more to defuse the encounter with Sterling. .(Arthur Reed via AP, File

1 Baton Rouge officer fired, 1 suspended in deadly shooting

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press