Alton Sterling's son spends 16th birthday with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West at Saint Pablo concert

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West at the MTV VMAs (PA)

The son of Alton Sterling, a black man fatally shot by a police officer, has spent his birthday with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West.

Sterling, who was fatally shot by a police officer while selling CDs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in July. His death was caught on camera and this, along with the fatal shooting of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota that same week, sparked a public outcry against the disproportionate levels of police killings against black men and protests across the country.

On Tuesday night, Sterling's eldest son Cameron attended West's Saint Pablo tour and was pictured in between the rapper and Kardashian West backstage.

Cameron’s lawyer Justin Bamberg shared a picture of the trio on his Twitter page, praising the married couple of two years for showing the young fan “birthday love”.

In the aftermath of Mr Sterling’s death, Cameron appeared alongside his mother at a press conference, visibly distressed and sobbing with grief.

A week later he later displayed courage and maturity far beyond his 15 years when he addressed a crowd and pleaded for peace following a protest in Dallas which took a violent turn when five police officers were killed.

“Protest with peace, not guns, alcohol and violence. Everyone needs to protest the right way. Not with violence,” he said. “I feel that people in general, no matter what their race is, should come together as one family.”

The photograph of Cameron and the Wests is one of the few instances Kardashian West has been spotted in public since she was the victim of an armed robbery in Paris on October 3.

In the wake of the deaths of Sterling and Castile, the 36-year-old pledged allegiance to the Black Lives Matter movement expressing fear that her mixed race children could be victims of police brutality due to the colour of their skin.

“I want my children to grow up knowing that their lives matter,” she wrote in a blog post. “I do not ever want to have to teach my son to be scared of the police or tell him that he has to watch his back because the people we are told to trust – the people who ‘protect and serve’ – may not be protecting and serving him because of the colour of his skin.”