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BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge Union of Police says a move to place a deputy chief on administrative leave was connected to a three-year-old lawsuit rather than a BRPD warehouse used for unofficial interrogations at the heart of an FBI probe.
Federal authorities are investigating the Baton Rouge Police Department following allegations that some officers "abused their authority," the FBI announced. The investigation comes as the police department faces several recent lawsuits over the treatment of detainees, including at a now-shuttered police warehouse that officers allegedly called the "brave cave," according to the complaints. The New Orleans FBI Field Office, the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle