The teenage son of a black man killed by white police officers told a crowd of reporters gathered at the Triple S Food Mart where his father died that he wants everyone “to protest the right way, protest in peace.”
The Associated Press reports Cameron Sterling spoke to reporters this morning, calling his father, Alton Sterling, “a good man,” adding “and he will always be a good man.”
The 15-year-old, who a week ago had sobbed as his mother talked about Sterling’s death, stood composed, saying he wanted protesters angry about his father’s death to “protest in peace.”
There should be no violence, he said.
Cameron Sterling’s call for peace comes one day after police say they’ve arrested three suspects accused of stealing several handguns as part of an alleged plot to harm police officers in the Baton Rouge area.
Baton Rouge police Chief Carl Dabadie said at a news conference Tuesday that authorities discovered the plot while responding to a burglary at a pawn shop. They arrested one suspect on the scene and then tracked down two others. Authorities called on the fourth suspect to turn himself in.
State Police Col. Mike Edmonson called it a “substantial credible threat” to police. The arrests come after the deadly police shooting of a black man by police officers in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis and the killing of five police officers in Dallas last week.
