Louisiana investigators are now trying to determine why the shooter – identified by United States media as Gavin Long, 29 – opened fire on police on Sunday, in an attack that also injured three officers. He was a 24-year veteran of the sheriff’s office.
Advertisement
The video depicts Gavin Long in his element, promoting his self-help book and doling out unsolicited advice to flawless strangers – on the streets of north Baton Rouge.
Meghan Parrish, a spokeswoman for Baton Rouge General Medical Center, said about 300 hospital staff members and others lined up to applaud Simmons as he left. Genuine discussions about police can not be comprised exclusively of accusations against officers who are sworn to protect all citizens, not just a particular race or class of people.
What Casady wrote probably goes double for African American police officers.
By May 2015, back in the U.S., Long sought to legally change his name to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra in a non-binding document filed in Jackson County, Missouri, though he never followed through with an official request, county spokeswoman Brenda Hill said. The photographs appear to have been taken from inside a auto because a gearshift and a cup holder are visible. “You get what I’m saying?” he said in the video. Shots were fired and within four minutes, reports were received that there were officers down at the scene.
She hadn’t yet learned that her little brother Montrell Jackson was among the three officers killed in Baton Rouge when her pastor asked the congregation to send prayers to her family. It was his 29th birthday. Those included Abdullah Muflahi, the owner of the Triple S mart in North Baton Rouge where Sterling was slain, and his lawyer, Joel Porter, both of whom took part of the hours-long congregations outside of the store that stretched on for days after Sterling’s death.
That shooting, captured on cellphone video, provoked widespread protests about police treatment of the black community.
Karama said he provided a copy of the letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who interviewed him at his home Wednesday.
Police say these newly released images show Baton Rouge gunman Gavin Long carrying out his deadly attack against police officers. Edmonson said by the time the former Marine parked his auto, the officer there had driven away. “The Bible says that men’s hearts are evil and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9) and the only answer is the Lord Jesus Christ”.
Long joined the Marine Corps in 2005 and worked as a data network specialist, according to the USA military.
He was discharged at the rank of sergeant in 2010, after serving in Iraq.
Robert Muhammad, the southwest regional minister for the Nation of Islam who was in Baton Rouge for some of the events after Sterling’s death, did not respond to a request for comment.
He did not specifically mention Baton Rouge or detail his plans for an attack in the letter.
His sister Joycelyn said, “It’s coming to the point where no lives matter, whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or whatever”. Many of them are still posted on YouTube.
In what appeared to be Long’s last tweet, from the day of the shooting, he wrote, “Just [because] you wake up every morning doesn’t mean that you’re living”.
Advertisement
Karama, who described himself as a hip-hop artist and community activist, said he provided other information about Long’s emails to various news outlets.
