“That is certainly in the realm of possibility”, said Gov. John Bel Edwards during an appearance on the Eyewitness Morning News, “but I can not confirm that this morning”.
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Visitation for Gerald, 41, is Thursday evening, with a funeral service to follow on Friday.
Nationally in 2015, he said there were millions of police contacts with people. American flags dotted the area.
It was the second calculated attack on law enforcement in 10 days, after the slaying of five officers in Dallas – attacks that have kept the nation on edge.
Support for police does not mean turning a blind eye to issues in law enforcement that have adversely affected minority communities. In a city already tense after the high-prof.
“I’m just numb. You just don’t think it would happen in our hometown”, Parent said, dabbing at tears.
‘The world is insane right now. The church he attends brought out a flatbed trailer filled with water for the visitation.
They appear to be classic loners with deep problems and hatreds of their own – and, it must be said, easy access to AR-15 semi-automatic military-style weapons.
About 70 motorcyclists from the Louisiana Patriot Guard Riders showed up for Gerald.
Clinton gave a speech at the annual NAACP Convention and dedicated her first words to condemning the murders of police officers at Baton Rouge on Sunday and to insist that the country has some “difficult, painful, essential work ahead of us to fix the bonds between our police and communities”. “These three men have paid the ultimate sacrifice for their city and their country”.
On Monday, the families of Alton Sterling and Montrell Jackson, two people who experienced different sides of the law, but both were victims of the violence that has engulfed Baton Rouge lately.
Even as Baton Rouge was mourning the three officers, news came Tuesday that a police officer in Kansas City was shot and killed while sitting in his patrol auto. Three other officers were injured.
Gavin Long, a former Marine from Missouri dressed in black and carrying extra ammunition, opened fire on officers around 8:45 a.m. Sunday, police said. And just as your tight-knit law enforcement family feels the recent losses to your core, our Nation grieves alongside you.
He was a 24-year veteran of the sheriff’s office. The casket for the veteran who served three tours in Iraq will be customized to reflect that service.
“You gotta fight back – that’s the only way a bully knows to quit”, Long said in one of his videos, using the pseudonym of “Cosmos”.
“Cpl. Jackson’s wife thought of him as Superman”, Ganem said.
Garafola apparently had responded to reports of a “dude with a rifle going down Airline Highway”, Edmonson said.
But investigators are still looking into Long’s movements in the several days he spent in Baton Rouge and if he had help committing the acts.
Police say they believe that after the ambush, which came less than two weeks after five officers were killed in Dallas, the attacker could have gone on to continue the violent rampage elsewhere if a Baton Rouge officer had not taken him down with a shot fired from more than 100 yards away. The footage drew attention to strained race relations and longstanding inequities in a city with a 55 percent black population that is informally segregated.
With its outreach program, the police department has made connections “with the Boys & Girls Club, United Way, with the faith community, partnerships with civil rights groups and with other community outreach programs, ” Dekmar stated.
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Whether Long’s actions were in response to Sterling’s death remains unclear.
