Nov. 16, 1972 Credit: Courtesy: LSU Manship School News Service A law enforcement officer shot and killed two students at Southern University in Baton Rouge after weeks of protests over inadequate services. When the students marched on University President Leon Netterville’s office, Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards sent scores of police officers in to break up the demonstrations. A still-unidentified officer shot and killed two 20-year-old students, Leonard Brown and Denver Smith, who weren’t among the protesters. No one was ever prosecuted in their slayings. They have since been awarded posthumous degrees, and the university’s Smith-Brown Memorial Union bears their names. St
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