BATON ROUGE, La. (The Daily Advertiser) – The public funeral for Alton Sterling, the man shot and killed by police last week, is set for 11 a.m. today at Southern University F. G. Clark Activity Center in Baton Rouge, with visitation from 8-10:30 a.m.

Civil rights activists the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-Louisiana, are confirmed speakers at the service. A White House representative also is expected to attend.

Sterling was shot and killed by police after a confrontation with officers at a convenience store, where he was apparently selling CDs outside.

The confrontation was caught on a couple of videos that show the officers wrestling Sterling to the ground, eventually signaling that he has a gun, and then shots being fired into Sterling’s chest from very close range.

The shooting sparked protests in Baton Rouge, and, coupled with the shooting death of a man in Minnesota, who was pulled over for a broken tail light and whose death was recorded by his girlfriend, sparked protests in several major cities around the country.

Protests in Dallas ended with the shooting death of five officers and the wounding of seven others.