Long also discussed protests in Baton Rouge, which broke out after police fatally shot a black man in a confrontation in a convenience store parking lot July 5.
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Scouting the area in a rental auto, Gavin Long initially spotted the patrol vehicle at a convenience store Sunday morning and parked next door, only to find an empty squad auto, said Col. Michael D. Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police, who outlined the gunman’s movements Monday with Sheriff Sid Gautreaux. If the guys were detained in connection to the shooting, it is not understood.
A community in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana held a vigil Monday night honoring one of three police officers killed by a former U.S. Marine.
Wesley said the city needs to look at how potential law officers are vetted. “It was a calculated act”.
Jackson was a 10-year veteran of the Baton Rouge Police Department who “loved his job”, according to The Advocate. At 8:44 devices from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office exchanged and showed up fire with the suspect, eliminating him.
Officials provided the first detailed accounts of the shooting scene Monday, using a map to describe the chaotic shootout with Long.
Shortly before the ambush that killed three law enforcement officers in Louisiana, the gunman was stalking a Baton Rouge police auto with his rifle poised to shoot, police said.
He then drove north on Airline Highway and saw another patrol officer vacuuming his vehicle at a auto wash next to the convenience store and parked behind a fitness center next door. Republicans have pushed back, calling for support of the police.
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.
Undeterred, Long located another possible target at a nearby vehicle wash.
“Officer Jackson knew this”, he said, “when just days ago he asked us to keep hatred from our hearts”.
In one video, referring to Native Americans, he said: “When they were extincted by the same people that run this country, my question to you, just something you can think about: At what point should they have stood up?” Three other officers were wounded in the attack.
He says what happened in Baton Rouge is a reminder of the extraordinary risks and dangers that law enforcement officers take every day “to protect us and our way of life”. “Shoots him right then”. “A part of us died with him”.
“My deputy went down fighting”.
“It has a very severe effect”, said Williams.
Long had parked and looked inside an empty police vehicle parked at a convenience store, and then walked around the building, where he was confronted by the three officers who were slain, Edmonson said. “His prey was those police officers”.
Garafola who was farther behind the building, heard the shots and took cover behind a dumpster.
His colleague, Deputy Nicholas Tullier, a father of two teenage sons, is surrounded by family at the hospital.
In an open letter to the nation’s law enforcement officers, Obama said overcoming will also require resilience, the grace of loved ones and the good will of activists.
The status of the third injured officer is unclear at this time, but he sustained non-life threatening injuries.
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The context makes it even worse.
