The third was a deputy with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, 45-year-old Brad Garafola.
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The single gunshot that killed Long, 29, was sacked by an officer from about a hundred yards away, police officials said on Monday as they deepened their investigation into the second racially charged armed assault on US law enforcement this month.
The July 17 attack came days after the controversial shooting death of Alton Sterling by Baton Rouge cops and snipers killing five officers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas.
The Baton Rouge police department faces a federal investigation over Sterling’s death, and is still operating under a decades-old agreement with the US government to hire more black officers.
“Y’all realize what this means to us?” “These officers were intentionally targeted and assassinated”. Jose Jackson, the father of 10-year police veteran Montrell Jackson, and Sandra Sterling, aunt of Alton Sterling, joined together Tuesday evening to share their grief and pray for the future of their beloved city, according to local news broadcaster WWLTV.
“It’s protest with a objective”, Norman said.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The man who ambushed and killed three law enforcement officers in Louisiana purportedly described his actions as a “necessary evil” in a self-described, handwritten manifesto that an OH man says was emailed to him by the gunman less than an hour before the shootings.
Edwards, in a news release, said the drive will be held Thursday in conjunction with LifeShare Blood Centers and is open to all state employees and members of the public.
Families with children, drivers passing through and law enforcement officers from outside the area have been laying flowers and balloons or hanging crosses at a makeshift memorial in front of the B-Quick convenience store near where the officers were killed Sunday.
Experts say that social media can create an echo chamber where radical ideas are reinforced, which may in turn result in users escalating from anger to violence. Lee Wesley, who is black.
Authorities also addressed the use of the SWAT team and other militarization tactics used by police forces.
Gavin Eugene Long, the gunman who shot dead three law enforcement officials and injured three others in Baton Rouge Sunday, had pledged allegiance to an African-American offshoot of the anti-government Sovereign Citizen Movement past year, documents revealed.
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. The meetings, which were unannounced, lasted more than an hour.
Obama has said nothing justifies attacks on law enforcement, a sentiment he reiterated in the two-page letter.
He was to be briefed Tuesday afternoon by Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey.
He says what happened in Baton Rouge is a reminder of the extraordinary risks and dangers that law enforcement officers take every day “to protect us and our way of life”.
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Officials say Long deliberately sought out officers. Three more officers were wounded, one of them critically. In his post, Jackson talks about the difficulty of being both a black man and a police officer in the city of Baton Rouge. Gerald’s funeral is set for Friday morning.
