Several officers have been shot in Baton Rouge Sunday morning while on duty less than a mile from police headquarters, police said.
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“You never saw him without at least one of his kids”, she said Sunday evening.
Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards rushed to the hospital where the officers who were shot during the attack were taken.
A senior law enforcement official said that suspect wore black fatigues and was armed with a rifle.
Investigators trying to figure out why a former Marine sergeant would eventually murder police in broad daylight will likely look to the writings and online footprint of Cosmo Setepenra, the name Long legally changed his name to. “We are devastated to lose one of our own, and another is now in a fight for his life. We must rise above the senseless violence that seeds hate at the very time we need to build unity”.
The coroner for Baton Rouge says his office will perform autopsies Monday on the three officers slain in an attack this weekend.
– 8:44 a.m. reports received of officers down on the scene. The Dallas gunman, Micah Johnson, 25, was killed by police deploying a bomb-carrying robot.
“Attacks on police are an attack on all of us and the rule of law that makes society possible”, he emphasised. “Officers were falling down and hiding”, he told NBC News.
Louisiana State Police have positively identified the shooter who killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge as Gavin Long.
A Baton Rouge police
officer killed yesterday by a gunman had voiced both frustration and hope in an emotional Facebook post
after the controversial killing of a black man at the hands of police earlier this month.
Since the shooting death of Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge police earlier this month, the department has anxious about credible threats against officers.
Jackson’s family was mourning the officer Sunday afternoon.
Pitts said he woke up Sunday to find his mother crying as news broke about the shooting involving police.
“I just wanted to let y’all know, don’t affiliate me with nothing”, he says. “I’m affiliated with the spirit of justice, nothing more nothing less”. He was divorced and living in a working-class neighborhood, and Missouri records show he had no criminal history.
“We as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies violence against law enforcement”, Obama said, speaking from the White House press briefing room.
She said she and the Garafolas were the first to build homes in 2007 in the subdivision where they live.
He added, “Regardless of race or political party or profession, regardless of what organizations you’re a part of, everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further”.
“It’s unspeakable that these men risking their lives to protect and serve this community were taken out the way that they were”, said Gov. Edwards. “And it’s in times like this, I wish the command of the English language that I have were adequate to the task to convey the full range of the emotions I am feeling”.
The suspect, identified by a United States official as Gavin Long of Kansas City, Missouri, was believed to have acted alone.
Police have not officially released the names of the victims but one was identified by family members as Officer Montrell Jackson.
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The police officers were targeted in an apparent ambush in the same city where Alton Sterling was controversially shot dead by white police 12 days ago.
