The Baton Rouge Police Department handed over the investigation into the shooting to the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation a day after the shooting.

In the aftermath of the incident, Moore defended the officers, saying that the shooting was “potentially a state authorized killing.”  He said that “gives law enforcement officers the authority and mandates them to kill when in defense of themselves or others.”

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