BATON ROUGE— Baton Rouge community leaders won a free speech lawsuit against the metro council on Monday after eight years. NAACP State President Michael McClanahan and Eugene Collins won but Gary Chambers did not.

During a Metro Council meeting in May 2017. Michael McClanahan said the city was moving along with regular business … but did not address the way the city was handling the Alton Sterling case at the time.

"They weren't getting to the root of the cause, which was Alton Sterling's death or about the police department that needs to be revamped," McClanahan said.

The meeting took place after Baton Rouge Police shot and killed Alton Sterling.

McClanahan took the chance during the public comment section of the meeting to express his opinion on how the case was being handled. That

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