Gavin Long, who shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing three and wounding three others, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Three other officers were wounded. On July 7, another former USA serviceman espousing militant black nationalist views killed five Dallas officers.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). Millville, N.J. police chaplain Robert Ossler prays Monday, July 18, 2016, at a makeshift memorial at the fatal shooting scene in Baton Rouge, La., where several law enforcement officers were killed on Sunday.
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 USA law enforcement this month.
Two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy were killed Sunday after they were ambushed by a lone gunman.
In the self-described manifesto, which was started off with the words “Peace Family”, Long wrote about a “concealed war” between “good cops” and “bad cops”, and said he felt obligated to “bring the same destruction that bad cops continue to inflict upon my people”.
In the manifesto, Long said he expected people who knew him wouldn’t believe he would commit “such horrendous acts of violence”. “I see my actions as a necessary evil that I do not wish to partake in, nor do I enjoy partaking in, but must partake in, in order to create substantial change within America’s police force, and judicial system”.
LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette confirmed the visits with authorities after the coach was seen entering police headquarters, where he spent more than an hour, by The Associated Press.
Karama, who described himself as a hip-hop artist and community activist, said he provided other information about Long’s emails to various news outlets.
((Left to right) Baton Rouge cops Matthew Gerald and Montrell Jackson and Baton Rouge Parish Deputy Brad Garafalo died in the attack.. Visitation will begin at noon Saturday at the Istrouma Baptist Church, the sheriff’s office said. Protests rocked the city following the July 5 death of a black man during a confrontation with two white police officers.
Hundreds attended a rally Tuesday night supporting law-enforcement officers at police headquarters, about a mile from where the officers were shot to death Sunday morning.
Jackson had written on Facebook days before the shooting about the pressures he faced as a black man and a police officer.
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Faith and community leaders, black and white, gathered at a Baton Rouge church to discuss ways to improve police relations with local black residents after two weeks of violence in the city. He said after the meeting that what happened in Baton Rouge is a reminder of the extraordinary risks and dangers that law enforcement officers take every day “to protect us and our way of life”.
