In a statement on the Baton Rouge police shootings, President Obama had a message for all Americans about rhetoric that divides, but without mentioning his name, Obama also appeared to be talking about Donald Trump.
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Five of the officers were transported to Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. “Agents from the FBI and ATF are on the scene, and the Department of Justice will make available victim services and federal funding support, and will provide investigative assistance to the fullest extent possible”. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us, and the people who carried out this act, the individuals, they do not represent the people of Baton Rouge or the estate of Louisiana or what’s best about our country they don’t represent the values we stand for”.
Another law enforcement official described Long as a “black separatist”.
Brady Vancel said the man looked like a pedestrian running with a rifle in his hand, rather than someone trained to move with a rifle. He said he heard semi-automatic fire and perhaps a handgun.
8:45 a.m. reports received of more shots being fired.
As the all-too-familiar scene unfolded in Baton Rouge, Dallas Police chief David Brown tweeted, “Our thoughts and prayers are with Baton Rouge police”. Officials say a 41-year-old deputy is in critical condition and the other is in fair condition. “We demand law and order”. On July 7, gunman Micah Johnson killed five police officers during a protest in Dallas.
On Sunday morning, three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana were shot and killed by a gunman who was reportedly armed with a rifle. Terrance Carter spoke Sunday to The Associated Press by telephone, saying the family just wants peace. The National Association of Police Organizations said after the Dallas shooting that America was in the midst of a war on law enforcement officers. Three others were wounded. The races of the suspect and the officers were not immediately known. One suspect was also shot and killed.
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Around noon, L’Jean McKneely, a Baton Rouge police spokesman, said the shooting scene was near the B-Quick Convenience Store on Airline Highway.
Sterling’s nephew condemned the killing of the three officers.
“There is not an active shooter scenario in Baton Rouge”, he said.
“There simply is no place for more violence”, Gov. John Bel Edwards said.
The three officers, two from the city’s police department and one from the sheriff’s office, were ambushed while responding to reports of gunfire on Sunday morning.
The shootings of the law enforcement officers Sunday came after a night in which there were no large protest gatherings in Baton Rouge of the type that had been mounted in the days after Alton Sterling was shot by a Baton Rouge police officer outside a North Foster Drive convenience store on July 5. The two men stopped in West Baton Rouge Parish and taken into custody were initially spotted at the Wal-Mart in Port Allen wearing black t-shirts and camouflage trousers, a source said. As of June this year, 201 of 657 officers are black, or 30 percent, according to numbers provided by the police department. L’Jean Mckneely Jr. says authorities do not have an immediate indication that explosives are present. “Two down back here”, a different officer says.
“These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one”.
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The shootings happened less than a mile from the state capital’s police headquarters.
