Brunswick Chief Richard Rizzo said his community is safe and supports local police, but there, too, officers are more wary because of the attacks in Texas and Louisiana.
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Col. Edmonson declined to comment about Long’s affiliations or claims that he was in Dallas in the days after another lone gunman killed five officers in a targeted attack, saying authorities are still examining all evidence.
In Kansas City, police officers, some with guns drawn, converged on a house listed as Long’s.
The single gunshot that killed Long, 29, was sacked by an officer from about 100 yards away, police have said as they deepened their investigation into the second racially charged armed assault on US law enforcement this month.
Underneath the entrance sign for his alma mater, Istrouma High School, classmates, friends and family of Baton Rouge Police Officer Montrell Jackson gathered Tuesday evening (July 19) to remember a man they described as always smiling. “I was simply trying to bring attention to unnecessary violence and bloodshed, as I continued to do on yesterday when I wore a similar t-shirt with all of the fallen officers names on it who died in unnecessary bloodshed”. Two are still being treated.
A NATION desperately in need of healing instead has more lives to grieve after a shooting Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., left three law enforcement officers dead and three wounded.
Gautreaux says that if Long hadn’t been killed at the scene, “we would have had two other slain deputies and that individual would have had the opportunity to get into his vehicle and go after other targets”. “It just doesn’t happen in this country”, said Rizzo.
Col. Robert Williams, Chief of the Maine State Police, said Monday that troopers are being more careful because they’re more anxious. “You couldn’t help but like him if you knew him”, Cavalier said.
Rev. Lee Wesley says the city needs to look at how potential law officers are vetted.
Garafola came from a law enforcement background.
The aunt of Alton Sterling and the father of a slain Baton Rouge police officer met, embraced and prayed together at a growing makeshift memorial in the city on Monday evening – a powerful scene that was caught on video by ABC News. African-Americans in too many communities distrust the police who are hired to protect them.
Another black man was shot and killed by police the next day in Minnesota, with his girlfriend livestreaming the aftermath on Facebook.
According to the Cosmo writings, Long espoused a long list of beliefs that do not fit cleanly into only the sovereign citizens viewpoint, Mr. Pitcavage said, noting Long’s claims to have lived in Africa for several years and having worked as a nutritionist and spiritual adviser.
“This is not about she or I, this is about the people who are hurting and the officers who gave their life for this city”, Taylor said.
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The back-to-back killings reignited nationwide protests over the use of force by police against minorities, including the fateful rally in Dallas on July 7.
