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Rosalyn Scott's odyssey in trying to file a complaint with internal affairs illustrates how often residents are too discouraged or too intimidated to bring their complaints forward for official review.
After the Alton Sterling protests, only one Baton Rouge Police officer was investigated. The complaint? The officer had questioned the legality of the police response at the protest that day.
The first modern Black political organizations in New Orleans were a product of the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1960s. Local Black civil rights attorneys had achieved a measure of success in fighting discrimination while litigating for enforcement of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.