Alton Sterling

2 Louisiana police officers are under fire for shooting and killing an unarmed black man in Baton Rouge.

Alton Sterling, 37, was selling music CDs in front of a Baton Rouge convenience store early Tuesday when he was approached by 2 cops.

A witness sitting in a car parked nearby filmed the confrontation and takedown as it unfolded.

In the video, Sterling has his arms up in a universal sign of surrender. One of the officers tased him while the other cop tackled him to the ground and restrained him.

Sterling is lying face up on the ground with his left arm pinned to the ground by a cop. He briefly struggles with the other cop who shouts, “He’s got a gun!”

The cop who was kneeling on Sterling’s left arm drew his service weapon and pointed it at Sterling’s head.

Suddenly a gunshot rang out, then several more gunshots are heard as the video goes dark and the woman who was filming screams.

A few seconds later a male voice is heard saying, “They shot him? Oh my f___ing goodness.”

“They killed him! Oh my god!” said the woman.

Alton Sterling

According to East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. William Clark, Sterling died of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back.

Baton Rouge police spokesman Cpl. L’Jean McKneely told The Advocate the 2 cops responded to the store at 12:35 a.m after a 911 caller reported a man fitting Sterling’s description — selling CDs and wearing a red shirt — threatened him with a gun.

Abdul Muflahi, owner of the Triple S Food store where the shooting took place, told WAFB-TV that Sterling struggled to get the officer off of him but he did not have a gun in his hand during the struggle.

Muflahi said that after Sterling was shot “four to six times” he saw a cop remove a gun from one of Sterling’s pockets.

Muflahi told the NY Daily News that he and Sterling had been friends for 6 years. He said Sterling purchased a handgun for his own personal protection after hearing about other street vendors being robbed in the area.

“His hand was not in his pocket, nor did he have the gun in his hand,” said Muflahi.

Cpl. McKneely told The Advocate that the body cameras the two cops were wearing somehow managed to come loose during the struggle.

Within hours, social media activists Black Lives Matter launched protests in Baton Rouge and across the country. Sterling’s name was a trending topic on Twitter.com all day Tuesday.

Hundreds gathered outside the Triple S store to pray and protest peacefully Tuesday afternoon.

As usual, the leftwing media attempted to justify the murder of an unarmed black man by dutifully reporting Sterling’s criminal record.

Angry citizens vented their frustration on Twitter.com.

“Now his jail records are being brought up. They’re probably looking for a picture of him with a gun before they go on CNN,” wrote one Twitter user.

Another user tweeted, “You can safely arrest a white kid shooting up a church but kill an unarmed black man selling CD’s. The system is broken! #AltonSterling.”