Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie is pushing back a request by Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome to fire an officer involved in the deadly shooting of Alton Sterling.
Dabadie responded in a letter to the mayor, saying it'd be improper and premature to do so while the criminal investigation is ongoing.
Broome had written a letter to Dabadie, asking him to fire Officer Blane Salamoni. Sterling was shot several times at close range while held down on the ground back in July of last year.
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