While police officers were again left on edge this week, activists strongly decried the shooting in Baton Rouge, which left people in Louisiana’s capital city feeling shaken and uneasy.
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He died in a firefight on Sunday night along with another Baton Rouge officer and an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy. “I’m not begging but simply asking for your support for my cousin and his family anything you can donate would help”.
“I’m about building my own brand at this point”, he said.
“Clearly the landscape has changed since Dallas”, he added.
“It is so important that everyone regardless of race or political party or profession, regardless of what organisations you are a part of, everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further”, Obama said in an address to the nation from White House after the shooting.
Mr Obama telephoned the families of the Baton Rouge officers on Monday to offer his and the first lady’s condolences.
He also confirmed that investigators have interviewed people with whom the shooter had contact with in Baton Rouge.
The killing was captured on cellphone video and widely circulated online.
Long also sent an email to various individuals before the shooting spree, including black scholar Dr. Boyce Watkins.
Pierce said he was friends with Alton Sterling, the black man shot by white officers two weeks ago.
Services for Officer Matthew Gerald will be Friday at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge.
LSU football coach Les Miles has been visiting with law enforcement in Baton Rouge after an ambush by a lone gunman took the lives of three officers Sunday and wounded three others.
But Long, who was black, said in a series of social media messages posted in recent days, some from Dallas, that he was fed up with the mistreatment of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement, and praised the attack on Dallas police.
Long opened fire on the deputy immediately, shooting as he walked toward the patrol auto, Gautreaux said.
The carnage came to an abrupt end less than 10 minutes after it began when Long, affiliated with an African-American branch of the anti-government Sovereign Citizen movement, was shot dead by a police SWAT team marksman, firing from a position about 100 yards away. “It’s the chilling and the shear brutality of the shooting”, Col. Edmonson said. “This is why. Because we are up against a force that is not playing by the rules”, Dabadie told the news conference.
Todd Lindgren, a spokesman for the FBI office in Cincinnati, said he could not respond to any questions about the case “due to the Baton Rouge matter being an ongoing investigation”, and the FBI’s New Orleans office also declined comment.
Trump says in a statement posted on his Twitter and Facebook pages that “We grieve for the officers killed in Baton Rouge today”. He legally changed his name to Setepenra past year.
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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. The other two were identified as Gerald, and Brad Garafola. “I love him so much, and I miss him so much”.
