They’ve been saying for 50 years that it’s all the fault of outside agitators.
Also wondering what the basis was for confiscating weapons.Louisiana appears to be an open carry state.
Baton Rouge police blamed violence and out-of-town agitators for the
large number of arrests, noting that an earlier march the same evening
was peaceful and nobody was arrested.
It’s always outside “agitators” who are the problem, isn’t it? That’s what slaveholders said of abolitionists in the 1850s, it’s what segregationists said of civil rights workers in the 1960s, and it’s what the police are saying about BLM protesters today.
Same as it ever damn was.
Louisiana’s parishional laws are somewhat archaic and unpredictable in how local LEOs apply certain tenets.
Not cutting anyone any slack here-- but LA is just a different kind of place legally speaking.
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Baton Rouge, 2016:
Photo: Johnathan Bachman, Reuters