The impromptu shrines in Louisiana’s state capital illustrate the heartache on both sides of a confrontation over police use of lethal force against mostly black men and targeted killings in Dallas and Baton Rouge by black gunmen bearing racial grievances against white officers.
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The three who died near a convenience store in the Louisiana capital are among 10 law enforcement officers killed in 10 days around the United States by attackers, including at a protest march in Dallas and a courthouse in MI.
Wesley acknowledged that myriad systems in Baton Rouge, including the Police Department, have been or are operating under consent decrees or other orders from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Orlando police, for instance, received about a $1 million in federal funds to cover emergency expenses related to the handling of the terrorist attack on a gay nightclub that killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in mid June, and its aftermath, Richmond said.
The third was a deputy with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, 45-year-old Brad Garafola. This year alone, 31 officers have been killed by gunfire in the line of duty.
On Tuesday, members of the public mourned the slain officers, and makeshift memorials sprang up across the city, including at the B-Quick convenience store where Long ambushed the police officers and sheriff’s deputies near a busy intersection.
Authorities say three law enforcement officers have been killed and three have been injured in a shooting in Louisiana. He also said: “I AM restored to my own aboriginal-indigenous appellation … without colorable law (legal) contract from GAVIN EUGENE LONG to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra in accord with the laws, customs, religious practices, traditions, distinct identities, characteristics and divine principles and language (s) of my Ancestors …” “They want to see progress, change”, Breaux said. “It is just an injustice in and of itself”, he told reporters in Baton Rouge.
Military officials identified the masked gunmen who shot the officers Sunday as Gavin Long of Kansas City, Missouri.
Services for Jackson, 32, are set for Monday. “I didn’t know where the gunfire was coming from”.
“It’s like all the ills of society, we wind up somehow being looked at as the people that need to solve them”, he says.
Seconds later, the killer spotted the wounded officer on the ground and executed him.
One of the people paying his respects Tuesday to law enforcement officers was LSU football coach Les Miles, a prominent figure in a city where the Tigers’ purple and gold colors can be seen flying everywhere. The hope is that Baton Rouge can learn from other communities who have faced, and solved, similar problems. He names Nakia Jones, Joe Crystal, Michael Wood, Ray Lewis and even Frank Serpico, an NYPD officer who acted as a whistleblower in the late ’60s and early ’70s who had an award-winning movie made about him. The Louisiana State Police also posted, “We do believe the suspect had been in our community for at least several days”. “We’ve been questioned for the last (two) weeks about our militarized tactics and our militarized law enforcement”. The driver was shot to death by police. Authorities said they’re investigating whether Johnson was directed or emboldened by black militant groups who called for retaliation against officers after this month’s police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
“We can and do provide the best quality law enforcement that we can but we cannot be held responsible for the social issues such as poverty, lack of mental health services, unemployment, and abject poverty”. In it, Jackson described himself as “tired physically and emotionally”.
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“I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me”.
