This post has been updated with a statement from president Barack Obama.
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“We don’t need inflammatory rhetoric”.
Calling on the people to stay united he said, “Only we can prove, through words and through deeds, that we will not be divide”. He served in Iraq from June 2008 to January 2009, and records show he received several medals during his military career, including one for good conduct.
“We demand law and order”, Trump said in a Facebook posting Sunday afternoon. Doug Cain said two “persons of interest” were detained in the nearby town of Addis.
Major Doug Cain notes that the investigation into whether the gunman had accomplices remains ongoing.
Setepenra’s Twitter feed, which was filled with posts targeting white people, said he had traveled to Dallas, and he posted videos of himself traveling there. “The university police had no interaction with him while he was a student”, she said in an email.
In parts of the U.S. it’s totally fine to walk round like this…
A reporter with Fox4KC in Kansas City tweeted that she went to the address listed for Gavin Long, and “a man answered the door with an AK-47”.
An update from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office at 11:15 p.m. said that one suspect is dead and others may be at large.
A suspect was shot dead and was later confirmed to be the lone gunman who attacked the policemen after they allegedly acted upon a 911 call, according to the local police.
Police officers react to a shooting of police in Baton Rouge, La.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said yesterday, “The violence, the hatred just has to stop”. That doesn’t help anyone, it doesn’t further the conversation, it doesn’t address any injustice, perceived or real. It is just an injustice in and of itself’. He said the gunman was dressed all in black. He appeared to be running “from an altercation”.
Now the board outside the FOP Lodge also displays a message of support for Baton Rouge, a city that lost three officers Sunday in an ambush on law enforcement. “In uniform I get nasty hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat”.
Police reopened the Baton Rouge crime scene area to the public early Monday.
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It was not immediately clear whether there was a link between the shootings and the recent unrest over the police killings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minnesota. On 7 July, five police officers were killed by sniper shots that were fired at them in Dallas, when a Black Lives Matter peaceful protest march took a violent turn.
