Ceaser Rivera

Ceaser Rivera was a 27-year-old Hispanic man from New Orleans whose life was cut short after a brutal early-morning attack on the city’s streets. In the predawn stillness of Independence Day weekend, while most people were asleep or celebrating somewhere far away, he found himself at the center of a violent encounter that would leave him fighting for breath, and then fighting for his life.

It was around 4:30 a.m. on July 4, 2015, in the 4300 block of Washington Avenue, when a disturbanc ...