Long joined the Marine Corps in 2005, worked as a data network specialist and served in Iraq before being discharged as a sergeant in 2010, according to the us military. Long also had prescriptions for Valium and the sleep drug Lunesta.
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Long clearly had at least medium-level military training; you don’t serve in the Marine Corps without receiving that. Under Defense Department rules, health records that might include any information on Long’s mental health are considered protected, even though he is dead.
Miles had unannounced, private meetings Tuesday with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, which lost a deputy in the fatal shootings, and Baton Rouge Police, which lost two officers. Metadata reviewed from the three photos indicates they were snapped shortly before 8 a.m. on the day of the shooting using a Motorola Android cellphone, but both photos and time stamps can be modified.
The letter comes as Obama remains under intense criticism from some police officials and others who accuse him of fostering a climate that has led to the intentional killing of law enforcement officers.
The single gunshot that killed Long, 29, was sacked by an officer from about 100 yards away, police have said as they deepened their investigation into the second racially charged armed assault on US law enforcement this month.
Louisiana State Police Col. Mike Edmonson said law enforcement officers found an array of hand-written documents in Long’s vehicle and a hotel where he was staying, but that he did not know if the material included the letter Karama shared.
Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Tullier was critically injured and is “fighting for his life”, Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said.
But Long, who was black, said in a series of social media messages posted in recent days, some from Dallas, that he was fed up with the mistreatment of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement, and praised the attack on Dallas police.
In the video, Long mentions the July Fourth holiday as a celebration of an uprising against oppressive forces.
“We also call on our officers to show respect for our citizens”, he said. “Through bloodshed”, he said in the video.
Photographs of the three-page letter show it was signed by “Cosmo”, the first name of an alias used by Baton Rouge gunman Gavin Long, and the pictures were attached to an email sent from a Google address that Long used. He legally changed his name to Setepenra a year ago.
Just as the city appeared to take a breath, the next blow hit Sunday, when a masked former Marine ambushed law enforcement along a busy highway, killing three officers and wounding three more before he was shot and killed.
Then, Dunn said, the attack on officers damaged those efforts. He said he was sorry about what happened to the officers and about losing his stepson.
“I’m about building my own brand at this point”, he said. “He wasn’t my biological son, but he was a son to me”. Lee Wesley, who is black. He was awarded several medals, including one for good conduct, and received an honorable discharge.
“Knowing these guys were out there to protect and serve, I want to do my part”, said Trey Ganem, a Texas-based maker of custom caskets who designed and donated the burial boxes for the services.
A research report on the department’s website says that “although PTSD is associated with a risk of violence, most people with PTSD have never engaged in violence”.
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Police gunned down Long, a 29-year-old black man from Kansas City, Missouri, after he shot and killed three officers and wounded three others during a shootout Sunday. His tenure included a deployment to Iraq. People need to show more respect for police officers, but police officers need to show more respect for residents, he said.
