Discussing the difficulties of being a police officer and a black man in America now, he said he was “disappointed in some family, friends and officers for some reckless comments”.
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The three police officers who were killed in a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sunday, July 17, have been identified as Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola.
But a USA government official told Reuters the gunman had been identified as Gavin Long, of Kansas City, Missouri, and was black. “His movements, his direction, his attention was on police officers”, Edmonson said.
Calling the slaying of three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge and the wounding of others “a diabolical attack”, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared Monday, “There is no division in Louisiana and we support our law enforcement officers”. Days before the shooting, Jackson posted a comment on Facebook discussing how he, as an officer in uniform, was getting nasty looks.
“It’s coming to the point where no lives matter”, she told The Washington Post on Sunday, “whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or whatever”. Long, dressed in black and armed with a rifle, was shot dead on Sunday morning in a gunfight with police. “Please don’t let hate infect your heart”, Jackson wrote. “Yeah. And I’d like you to do a letter of recommendation.’ So I wrote it and a few weeks or so later, he got hired”, said Cavalier. He loved Baton Rouge.
Officer Jackson had written a Facebook post expressing how hard it was for him to be both a black man and a police officer. “The city MUST and will get better”. He served in the military for five years as a data network specialist.
A GoFundMe page was started in honor of 32-year-old BRPD officer Montrell Jackson who leaves behind a wife and infant son, according to the page.
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Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie, Jr. also defended law enforcement amid criticism of so-called “militarized tactics” by police in response to violent protests in cities such as Ferguson, Missouri. “Donna and I ask everyone to continue praying for the victims, their families, our communities, and law enforcement officers around this state and country”.
