“After he was finished here, I have no doubt he was headed to our headquarters, and he was going to take more lives”, Baton Rouge Mayor Carl Dabadie, Jr. said Monday.
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“It is so important that everyone regardless of race or political party or profession, regardless of what organisations you are a part of, everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further”, Obama said in an address to the nation from White House after the shooting.
Timothy Williams spoke highly of Baton Rouge law enforcement.
During the Monday news conference, which lasted for almost an hour, officials offered a remarkably detailed and chilling narrative of the shooting, much of it drawn from video recordings Col. Edmonson said captured “the sheer brutality of the shooting”. However, they said it also shows that the national issues can come very close to home and that law enforcement needs to be able to engage in discussions with groups in the community before the issues rise to the level of anger and protests. Johnson told negotiators he wanted to kill white cops – before he was killed by a police robot bomb. He showed bullet marks on his auto and said the city’s problems run deep. Long set up the latter rifle inside his Chevrolet Malibu rental auto for easy access during the shooting, Edmonson said.
The three are among 10 law enforcement officers killed over a span of 10 turbulent days around the country by attackers – at a protest march in Dallas, a courthouse in MI and now a convenience store in Baton Rouge. The 29-year-old black man was shot dead by police after the attack.
The Connecticut Police Chiefs Association extends its sincerest condolences to the people of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Police Department, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department and especially, the families, friends and fellow officers of the fallen and injured.
Based in Kansas City – more than 1,100 kilometres north of Baton Rouge – Long was a former Marine whose served a 2008-2009 tour of duty in Iraq.
Long was armed with these weapons when he ambushed police in Baton Rouge.
Long also left behind a social media trail showing he apparently believed that black people had to physically resist mistreatment from authorities, saying that sometimes it was necessary “to go to war”.
People hold hands in prayer at a candlelight vigil for Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson, outside Istrouma High School, where he graduated in 2001, in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, July 19, 2016.
The Baton Rouge ambush followed on the heels of the Dallas attack on officers, both cases involving skilled gunmen and multiple casualties. “Because we are up against a force that is not playing by the rules”. Doug Cain said authorities were trying to verify that Long wrote the letter.
“This guy was going to another location”, Dabadie said.
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Back at the fitness center, Deputy Nicholas Tullier, 41, had just got back in his patrol auto to run the tag of the Malibu when Long emerged in the parking lot, Gautreaux said. The attack came almost two weeks after Alton Sterling, a Baton Rouge resident, was fatally shot by police in an incident that was captured on video. Jackson had written on Facebook days before the shooting about the pressures he faced as a black man and a police officer.
