A former US Marine sergeant who served in Iraq has been identified as the gunman who killed three police officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday, according to a government source with knowledge of the investigation. University police had no interaction with Long during that time, Bryant said.
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It was the fourth high-profile deadly encounter in the United States involving police over the past two weeks.
Almost 2½ minutes after the first report of an officer getting shot, an officer on the scene is heard saying police do not know the shooter’s location.
Later he gathered law enforcement professionals at the White House for talks on how to improve relations between officers and citizens.
“Around the clock news cycles and social media sometimes amplify these divisions”, Obama said. 3 officers killed in Baton Rouge attack; suspect identifiedTo ensure the protection of officers with the LAPD, Beck has ordered the following to be done within the department: – Metropolitan officers will assist and provide protection to officers responding to calls.
Oren Segal, director of the Center on Extremism for the Anti-Defamation League, said there was no information linking Long, who was black, to any known extremist group or movement, but the ADL and others were investigating Long’s possible use of aliases.
“The killings of these police officers, just like those in Dallas, are just as reprehensible and unconscionable as the murders of black and brown people by police officers throughout this country that have been taking place for hundreds of years”, said Walter Wilson, a member of the board of directors for the African-American Community Services Agency. “Our goal is to have zero deaths”. He drove his mother to the hospital and it was there that they discovered that Jackson had been shot.
Montrell Jackson, 32, was a 10-year-veteran of the Baton Rouge Police Department and had a 4-month-old son, friends said. The OPOA’s Donelan was that organization’s vice president when it happened.
“No matter what the issue is, violence is never the answer”, he said. “We know it”, the president continued.
Louisiana Representative and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise released a statement condemning the attack and calling for peace in all communities.
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“If I could say anything to anyone, it is to get their lives right with God”, she said.
