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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A former police officer whose fatal shooting of a black man set off protests in Baton Rouge nearly two years ago is accused of slapping a handcuffed man during an unrelated incident less than a month earlier.

Baton Rouge police detectives issued a court summons to Blane Salamoni for a misdemeanor charge of simple battery after reviewing body camera footage of the June 2016 incident, the police department said Monday.

Salamoni shot and killed Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, during a struggle outside a convenience store on July 5, 2016. State and federal authorit...