After two weeks of unsettling and hard days and nights in Baton Rouge, residents are hoping for some calm. Multiple police officers were killed an…
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L never mentions Baton Rouge specifically in the letter but references the killings of black men at the hands of police.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputies release balloons at a noon vigil organized by municipal court workers in downtown Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, July 20, 2106, in honor of recent slain and injured sheriff deputies and poli…
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). Millville, N.J. police chaplain Robert Ossler prays Monday, July 18, 2016, at a makeshift memorial at the fatal shooting scene in Baton Rouge, La., where several law enforcement officers were killed on Sunday. “I know Gavin; I know he did it. He didn’t see any way out (from) the vicious killings from the police officers”.
President Barack Obama addresses the overnight shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas, in Warsaw, Poland Friday, July 8, 2016, before attending the NATO Summit.
The mayor says Tullier was taken off of life-support machines on Tuesday, but that he was still alive.
The man who killed three Louisiana law enforcement officers purportedly described his actions as a “necessary evil” in a self-described manifesto that an OH man says was emailed to him by the gunman less than an hour before the shootings. But he wrote that he viewed his actions as necessary to “create substantial change within America’s police force and judicial system”.
LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette confirmed the visits with authorities after the coach was seen entering police headquarters, where he spent more than an hour, by The Associated Press. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has traced the Israeli-made, military-style rifle Long used, as well as a semiautomatic handgun he carried and a M4-style carbine found in his rental vehicle, and forwarded its findings to the Louisiana State Police.
The specter of mental illness raised new questions about the firearms Long brought to Baton Rouge to carry out the deadly attack, including whether the weapons were obtained legally.
The Dallas shooting happened at the end of an otherwise peaceful protest denouncing the fatal police shootings of two black men days earlier, one of them in Baton Rouge. He said many police departments could also use more help purchasing bullet-proof vests.
Gavin Long’s mother, Corine Woodley, told PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley that her son would “pretty much lose it” and become furious every time he heard about a black man being shot by police in what he considered an unlawful manner.
Kip Holden, a Democrat who is term-limited as mayor, qualified Wednesday for the 2nd District congressional race, challenging Democratic incumbent Cedric Richmond.
The deaths of the three Baton Rouge officers came amid a spate of law enforcement officers killed, including five at a protest in Dallas, two at a courthouse in MI and a Kansas City, Kan., police captain shot and killed Tuesday while responding to a reported drive-by shooting.
Police have declined to say what role race might have played in Sunday’s rampage, which killed two white officers and one black officer.
Visitation and funeral services for East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Garafola, 45, follow on Saturday. The funeral will be held Friday.
The sheriff’s office says the family requests that any flowers or arrangements be delivered to the church Saturday as the facility will not be open prior to that day.
The group condemned recent violence and called for more community policing tactics.
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Since the Sunday morning shooting, Miles also has put out a statement and spoken in an interview with ESPN about the event.
