Long was black, as was one of the slain officers, Jackson.
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(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). Former NFL running back Warrick Dunn speaks at a noon vigil organized by municipal court workers in downtown Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, July 20, 2016, in honor of recent slain and injured sheriff deputies and police His mot.
Even as Baton Rouge was mourning the three officers, news came Tuesday that a police in Kansas City was shot and killed while sitting in his patrol vehicle.
Yarima Karama, of Columbus, Ohio, said he received an email containing Long’s manifesto..
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.
Obama telephoned the families of the Baton Rouge officers on Monday to offer his and the first lady’s condolences.
The man who killed three Louisiana law enforcement officers purportedly described his actions as a “necessary evil” in a self-described manifesto that an OH man says was emailed to him by the gunman less than an hour before the shootings.
“I’ve experienced so much in my short life and these last 3 days have tested me to the core”, he wrote the morning after a sniper in Dallas gunned down five fellow officers in Dallas, and just days after police shot and killed Alton Sterling in his city, resulting in protests where Jackson worked to keep the peace.
Holden said he was working with the Justice Department to develop new tools to improve relations between the police and the community.
Baton Rouge has been the scene of turmoil since was Sterling was shot and killed by a Baton Rouge Police officer during an altercation outside of a convenience store on July 5. The district is Louisiana’s only majority black district, representing New Orleans up the Mississippi River to part of Baton Rouge.
Funeral arrangements are set for three Baton Rouge police officers shot to death in an ambush by a lone gunman. Services will start at 2 p.m.
President Barack Obama says Sunday’s killing of three Louisiana law enforcement officers underscores the degree to which Washington must do everything possible to help police officers return home safe at night.
((Left to right) Baton Rouge cops Matthew Gerald and Montrell Jackson and Baton Rouge Parish Deputy Brad Garafalo died in the attack..
During the service the pastor took a moment to single out grieving officers.
Baton Rouge resident Javier Spaulding said many in the city are scared since the shootings.
Together Baton Rouge – whose leadership includes several pastors – and the justice department official met prior to the shooting of six police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday (July 17).
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The group condemned recent violence but also called for more community policing tactics.
