Jackson, slain by a gunman who authorities said targeted law enforcement, is the last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in last week’s ambush to be buried. That’s when he found out that his cousin, a 10-year veteran of the Baton Rouge department, was dead.
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The drop may be the result of the short-term response of a police department whose capabilities were stretched thin by protests held in response to the Sterling shooting and was still reeling from the Dallas attack on police officers.
“We have to uproot hate and violence and replace it with peace and love. But once you find out that this person has a receipt, that he was 100 miles away, that he had no relation to the situation, that he identifies himself as having his father and several members of his family in law enforcement”, said attorney George Downing, Jr.
Attorney General Lynch will be in town for a little while after the memorial is over.
“We are not alone”, she said.
Dreckman said support from the community has been “overwhelming” after the Baton Rouge attack and a shooting in Dallas that claimed the lives of five officers.
Choking back tears, two of the officers’ wives recalled phone calls and door knocks on an initially normal Sunday morning that changed their lives forever.
“There’s no way for you to know this since you’ve been so preoccupied, but your sons, your husbands, your dads, their pictures have been on the front page of every paper in the United States of America”, he told the families.
It is the latest event created to ease tensions in the community, coming a day after the region’s Metropolitan Council blocked a proposal to require its police officers to live within Baton Rouge city limits, a measure sought by some black leaders. “Being a cop isn’t just what you do, it’s who you are”.
We are the embodiment of the world that Deputy Garafola, Officer Gerald and Officer Jackson sought to create through their devotion to public service. “I got that phone call, that dreaded phone call you all got”. AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information.
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“The only thing stronger for the red white and blue was his love for us”, said Deisha Gerald. Jackson and two fellow officers were shot down in the street by an another embittered gunman out to avenge the recent spate of police killings of black people. Cpl. Crime analyst Jeff Asher says they saw similar occurrences in other cities that had police shootings, like Ferguson, Chicago, and Baltimore. His 4-month-old child, Mason, will never know his father, but his final post on social media has become part of his legacy and was Jackson’s closing remark. She asked everyone to stand and repeat, “I will not let hate infect my heart”. Deputy Nicholas Tullier, 41, remains in critical condition at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. That may sound like a small change, but narcotics enforcement can be an important glimpse into how often officers are going out of their way to engage in police work.
