Alton Sterling: When a Sex Offender Gets a Candlelight Vigil
It takes the shock of an unjust death to remind us that sex offenders can be people who are good men
Only in death, it seems, can a person on the sex offender registry be considered a human worthy of love and sympathy.
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Alton Sterling, the 37-year-old Baton Rouge man who was peddling CDs when he was shot by two police officers on Tuesday, was described by his friends quoted in this Reuters report as “a fun-loving guy” who was also a hardworking dad “who scraped together a living selling music recorded on compact discs.”
“He was a very nice guy, always smiling and laughing,” said Abdullah Muflahi, the owner of the store Sterling worked in front of.
A woman at a vigil for Sterling called him a “good man,” who “never bothered anyone.”