Long, who served in the military, was deployed to Iraq for less than a year between 2008 and 2009, according to military records.
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His postings sometimes described violence as an answer to what he viewed as oppression of African Americans.
Sterling’s shooting and another killing of a black man by a white officer in a Minnesota traffic stop have revived national protests and marches under the Black Lives Matter banner, including demonstrations in San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland.
In his rambling videos and written posts, Long discussed topics ranging from what he considered the extermination of Native Americans to the United States’ fight for independence. His website ConvosWithCosmos.com features his blog and podcasts about nutrition, fitness and personal transformation, as well as information about his personal coaching fees and links to his “self-actualization” books sold on Amazon.
During the news conference, officials offered a remarkably detailed and chilling narrative of the shooting, much of it drawn from video recordings Edmonson said captured “the sheer brutality of the shooting”.
“At end of the day, it’s still Baton Rouge”, Spaulding told Local 10 News reporter Terrell Forney.
The gunman who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday was specifically seeking out law enforcement officers, authorities said Monday.
Police have declined to say what role race might have played in Sunday’s shooting rampage, which left two white officers and one black officer dead, and three more lawmen wounded, one of them critically.
One of the officers, Nicholas Tullier, is clinging to life with gunshots to his head and stomach.
“Public safety is our most vital public service and at every arena of public life, it is important to implement measures to ensure public security so that health and normal life is always maintained”.
Earlier this month, protests erupted over the killings of two black men at the hands of police: Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge on July 5, and Philando Castile a day later in Falcon Heights, Minn. Long, Sunday’s shooter, was black.
Officer Matthew Gerald, 41, was also killed by Long. “Police officers need to get out of their cars and have one-on-one conversations with people in their community”, said the Rev. Lee Wesley, who is black.
“So we’re finding out somebody that was methodical and planning and really an outright murderer”, Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden told CNN in an interview on Monday morning.
“Deputy Garafola died as a hero, ” East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux III said. Long had been eyeing locations to specifically injure police officers and completely dismissed civilians passing by, Edmonson said, citing surveillance footage.
“We as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies attacks on law enforcement”, Obama said.
He said the conventions can involve rhetoric that “tends to get hotter than usual”. “Now we continue to speak out about the issues that have helped create disconnects with members of the communities to work so hard to protect”, the Fraternal Order wrote on its Facebook page.
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Seven children lost their dads Sunday in Baton Rouge.
