One suspect is dead and two others believed to be at large after a shooting Sunday morning that killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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“For the second time in two weeks, multiple law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty”, Lynch said in a statement.
Obama says the motives for the attack are unknown, but there is no justification for violence against law enforcement.
LOS ANGELES As Los Angeles police increase their resources, Mayor Eric Garcetti condemned the fatal shooting of three officers in Baton Rouge Sunday “in the strongest possible terms”, saying the incident has come to reflect “a horrifying trend”.
Two officers of the three police officers fatally shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana have been identified.
Rogers said an officer in the congregation hastily left the church near the end of the service, and a pastor announced that “something had happened”.
President Barack Obama is calling on Americans to lower avoid “overheated” rhetoric and focus on unifying words. Authorities were trying to ensure that there was no one in the house.
A person familiar with the investigation identifies one as 41-year-old Baton Rouge police officer Matthew Gerald.
“Even though it’s miles and miles away, we’re all family and it just saddens our heart to know somebody would do something like this”, said Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison. Another officer then says, “We do not have a 20 on the shooter; he is not in sight…” WBRZ reports from a witness on scene that a man was dressed in black with his face covered shooting indiscriminately.
But he also told local media the “rhetoric from some people” after the death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge may be connected to the shootings, without elaborating who. Absolutely insane that we have a president of the United States and a governor of Minnesota making the statements that they made less than one day after those police involved shootings. They are investigating. Right now we are trying to get our arms around everything. The scene is still active, Hicks told The Advocate.
“This is an unspeakable and unjustified attack on all of us at a time when we need unity and healing”, Edwards said Sunday in the hours after the Baton Rouge shooting.
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“The people who carried out this attack do not represent the people of Baton Rouge”.
