BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) -- Baton Rouge's top prosecutor says his office hasn't made any decisions on charges against protesters who were arrested over the weekend in demonstrations against killings by police.
East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar C. Moore III said Monday at a news conference that those decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis. Police made nearly 200 arrests over the weekend in Baton Rouge.
Moore also said that he's recusing himself from any state criminal investigation into the shooting death of Alton Sterling, a black man, at the hands of two white police officers.
He cited his professional relationship with the parents of one of the officers, Blane Salamoni. Salamoni's parents have both worked for Baton Rouge police, and Moore says they've interacted directly and worked on hundreds of cases in common.
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