Esparza a former psychology professor was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for the 1995... Norma Patricia Esparza was a Southern California college student in 1995 when she says she was raped by a man she met at a bar. A black man killed by police in front of a convenience store was remembered as the "meaning of Southern hospitality" and a good man whose death at the hands of two white police officers "woke up Baton Rouge and... Grieving residents of Baton Rouge honored an appeal at the funeral of a black man killed by police to celebrate his life rather than demonstrate about his death.