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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, July 7th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

This week Baton Rouge police shot and killed 37-year-old Alton Sterling

under suspicious circumstances. Body cameras police

were required to wear apparently caught none of the relevant events, but in

evaluating this killing, will police even ask the right questions?

Matthew Feeney policy analyst at the Cato Institute comments.

In the early hours of Tuesday, the 5th of July,

officers responded to a 911 call in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

They were responding to a call that said that there was a man threatening people at a convenience

store with a gun.

The incident resulted in the death of Alton Sterling, who was reportedly selling CDs outside

of this convenience store. The footage of the tussle that ensued between

Sterling and the officers shows two officers on top of Sterling. One of the officers then says he's got a gun.

It looks like the other officer then shoots Sterling.

And Sterling dies.

The frustrating thing about these kind of incidents is that it looks like it was a

legal shooting but also unnecessary better training could probably have prevented something like this from happening.

The Department of Justice is undertaking its own investigation.

And this relates to some of the work that I've done here at Cato because the two officers were wearing body cameras, but it looks like during the scuffle the cameras came uncoupled,

and the dash camera and body camera footage has not yet been released.

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