David Begnaud reports on the ambush that unfolded almost two weeks after police shot and killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge. Police said the gunman was killed at the scene. But Edmonson wouldn’t say how many or give details.
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The shooting added to the tensions across the country between the black community and police.
Sunday morning’s chaotic scene in Baton Rouge left many family and friends of those who wear the badge searching for information. We don’t need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or to advance an agenda.
Long, a black man from Kansas City, Missouri, was a Marine who was discharged as a sergeant in 2010.
The gunman in the Baton Rouge shooting has been identified as Gavin Long of Kansas City. He deployed to Iraq from June 2008 to January 2009, according to military records.
Although he was believed to be the only person who fired at officers, authorities were investigating whether he had some kind of help.
There is a growing national divide over policing in the US. It devastated him that his nephew will never get the chance to know the great man his father was, Pitts said.
In Kansas City, police converged on a small turquoise frame house listed under Long’s name.
It was the fourth high-profile deadly encounter in the United States involving police over the past two weeks.
A fourth policeman, aged 41, was fighting for his life on Monday, Gautreaux said, one of six in all shot by a attacker who officials named as decorated ex-U.S.
The shooting began at a gas station on Airline Highway. The Dallas shooting followed two widely publicized shootings of African-American men by police, in Baton Rouge and in a suburb of Minneapolis. For several long minutes, they did not know where it was coming from.
At a Sunday afternoon news conference, local and state authorities, including Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, said Long was thought to be the lone gunman. It doesn’t address any injustice perceived or real. The suspect was dressed all in black and, some reports said, wore a mask. Henrietta Wildsmith/The Times via AP.
“We need to find ways to see each other, to hear each other, to find common ground that we can stand on and have dialogue and not assassinations, not murders, not violence”, he said.
Of the two officers who survived the shooting, one was hospitalized in critical condition, and the other was in fair condition. Another wounded deputy and police officer have wounds not considered life-threatening, law officers said.
Garafola, 45, worked for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office for 24 years, according to Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office.
Several police officers have been shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with three confirmed dead.
In the Facebook posting Jackson said while in uniform he gets nasty looks and out of uniform some consider him a threat.
A Facebook page belonging to Matthew Gerald featured images of law enforcement badges, and friends and family posted condolences on a page that appeared to belong to his wife. The killing was captured on cellphone video.
In online posts, a man using an alias of the Baton Rouge shooter says protests alone don’t work, and people must fight back after the deaths of black men at the hands of police.
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KTLA in Louisiana reports the shooting comes just days after three people were arrested over an alleged plot to kill police officers.
