Clarissa Sosin

Oct 19, 2023 | veritenews.org | Clarissa Sosin |Daryl Khan

Part 4 of 5The good Samaritans at Southdowns Lounge managed to break up the one-sided beatdown in the parking lot. The victim stumbled to his car and drove off, never to resurface or be named in any official records. But it wasn’t over. The men involved in the attack had moved to the nearby Sonic Drive-In that shared a parking lot with Southdowns when Round 2 played out. “That’s me,” a man looking over a police report on the encounter said decades later.

Oct 17, 2023 | veritenews.org | Clarissa Sosin |Daryl Khan

Part 3 of 5The fight started the way many fights do, with harsh – if a bit comical – words exchanged between men hopped up on alcohol and testosterone. On the early morning of March 9, 2003, in the parking lot of the now-shuttered Southdowns Lounge just after last call, those words had to do with someone’s “momma.”One man had suggested that the occupation of another man’s mother involved exchanging money for sexual services.

Oct 16, 2023 | lailluminator.com | Clarissa Sosin |Daryl Kahn

by Clarissa Sosin, Louisiana Illuminator October 16, 2023 The three-day statewide manhunt was over, and the young man accused of shooting at a Baton Rouge police officer after fleeing a traffic stop was being paraded before news cameras. Raheem Howard, 21, his wrists cuffed behind him and his ankles shackled, shuffled along between two BRPD officers as they made their way in the traditional “perp walk” to a patrol car.

Oct 11, 2023 | ktbs.com | Clarissa Sosin

The Triple S Mart convenience store on North Foster Drive in Baton Rouge where Alton Sterling was shot and killed by BRPD officers in July 2016 is seen here in late March 2019. (Clarissa Sosin/Verite)This article first appeared on Verite NewsA man sold CDs at a table outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge as customers ambled in and out of the convenience store. A few women showed up in the parking lot for a protest that never materialized.

Oct 11, 2023 | veritenews.org | Clarissa Sosin |Daryl Khan

Part 1 of 5A man sold CDs at a table outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge as customers ambled in and out of the convenience store. A few women showed up in the parking lot for a protest that never materialized. Passing cars occasionally gave an encouraging honk in support of those seeking justice for Alton Sterling. A 10-minute drive away, new Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul sat in his office at BRPD headquarters with a different scene of the Triple S on his mind.