Baton Rouge Remembers Police Shooting Victim

Mourners gathered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to memorialize Alton Sterling, a black man who was fatally shot last week by police officers. Family and friends of Sterling as well as high profile activists, including civil rights leaders Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton attended the service Friday at Southern University, a historically black college. Sharpton called for justice in Sterling's death, "Wrong must be corrected and the wrong must be held...

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