Police officials in Baton Rouge, La., fired one of the officers involved in the 2016 fatal shooting of an African-American man and released long-awaited body camera footage that helps explain the decision. Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul said he fired Officer Blane Salamoni for violating department policies on use of force and “command of temper.” Both federal and state prosecutors declined to press criminal charges against Salamoni and Officer Howie Lake II for their role in the shooting death of Alton Sterling outside the Triple S Food Mart, where he was selling homemade CDs.

Saturday protests drew hundreds to downtown Sacramento, where the family of Stephon Clark, who was killed by police on March 18, called for police reforms. The 22-year-old’s family spoke at a rally Saturday afternoon organized by Matt Barnes, a Sacramento native and former NBA player. Clark’s fiancée, Salena Manni, appeared on stage with his two young sons. “All he wanted to do was go see his sons again, and unfortunately he can’t,” Clark’s uncle, Curtis Gordon, said at the rally.

UPDATE: An autopsy commissioned by the family of Stephon Clark, who was shot and killed March 18 by police in Sacramento, Calif., showed he had five gunshot wounds in his back, one in the back of his neck, and one in his side. Pathologist Bennet Omalu said at a news conference Friday that any one of those wounds would have been fatal, and death would have taken three to 10 minutes. Clark also had a gunshot wound to the thigh that Omalu said occurred as he fell or lay on the ground.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Tuesday he will not file criminal charges against two white Baton Rouge police officers in the 2016 shooting death of a black man outside a convenience store. Officer Blane Salamoni shot and killed 37-year-old Alton Sterling when he refused to cooperate during their attempt to arrest him for selling homemade CDs. Officer Howie Lake II helped wrestle Sterling to the ground but did not fire his gun.

Sequita Thompson, the grandmother of a man killed last week by Sacramento, Calif., police, lamented her loss and called for police reforms Monday. Stephon Clark, 22, was unarmed in Thompson’s backyard on March 18 when police in pursuit of a fleeing vandalism suspect came upon him. Thinking he had a gun, they shot at him 20 times. He had only a cellphone in his possession. Members of the Sacramento Kings and Boston Celtics on Sunday wore black warmup shirts with Clark’s name on them before their NBA game in Sacramento.

Linda Brown, the child at the center of the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case to desegregate public schools, died Sunday. She was 75. Her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in a nearby public school in Topeka, Kansas, but was told Linda had to attend a school miles away. The NAACP sued on the family’s behalf, and the case joined with others from Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia for a hearing before the high court.

Booker T. Washington died in 1915, and for several decades afterward he was the most-quoted African-American leader. His autobiography, Up From Slavery, is still worth reading. I’ve referred to it 10 times in WORLD Magazine over the years, and we’ve listed it as one of the top 40 books of the 20th century.