Louisiana will not charge two police officers for the fatal 2016 shooting of a black man, which was caught on video and sparked protests, because evidence showed the officers acted properly in subduing a person resisting arrest, the attorney general said on Tuesday.
The death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge was one of a number of killings of black men by white officers that helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement and raised the question of racial bias in U.S. policing.
Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama
