Protests break out after Baton Rouge police fatally shoot man

Protesters called for more demonstrations Wednesday following a night of unrest over the fatal shooting — caught on video — of a black man by police officers as they were spinning him to ground outside a Baton Rouge convenience store.

The two officers have been placed on administrative following the incident early Tuesday.

Officers responded to the store about 12:35 a.m. Tuesday after an anonymous caller indicated a man, later identified as  Alton Sterling, 37, selling music CDs and wearing a red shirt threatened him with a gun, Cpl. L’Jean McKneely said.

Two officers responded and had some type of altercation with the man  and one officer fatally shot the suspect, McKneely said. Both officers have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard department policy, he said.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., who called for the Department of Justice to investigate  the killing, said officials claimed that both officers had body cameras "but they fell off during the struggle and do not show the shooting."

 The store’s owner, Abdul Muflahi, told WAFB-TV that the first officer used a stun gun on Sterling and the second officer tackled the man. Muflahi said as Sterling fought to get the officer off of him, the first officer shot him “four to six times.”