He also cancelled his planned trip to Bristol, Conn., for ESPN’s annual “car wash”.
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“I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me.” he wrote.
(AP Photo/Max Becherer). Mother, Crystal Rende, center, and her family, including from left to right, Lara Rende, 15, Aydin Rende, 4, Noah Rende, 6, and Hannah Enamorado, 13, pray in front of a memorial of flowers and mementos in front of the B-Quick c.
By afternoon, the spot had accumulated an assortment of red, white and blue balloons, plus stuffed animals and a statue in the shape of a police badge inscribed with a prayer. “So they’re taking a really clear stand for this group, against the police”. In this document, filed with the Jackson County recorder of deeds and first reported by the Kansas City Star, Long claimed his nationality was “Washitaw”.
“Every time my husband left the house, I prayed the whole sixteen days ‘God, keep him safe”.
“Watching the news from Baton Rouge yesterday, my heart broke”.
President Obama on Monday penned an open letter to law enforcement in the wake of ambush attacks against police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La.
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”.
I spoke to a woman whose father is in ICU, she says there are a lot of people inside the hospital crying and praying.
Video evidence suggests Long came heavily armed and well prepared for his assault on officers. “He always said, “I will see if I can help you”, said Cavalier.
“The violence, the hatred, just has to stop”, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, D, said at a news conference hours after Sunday’s attack, in which three other officers were wounded.
He said the change wouldn’t alter the number of officers on patrol at any given time.
Landry, who is white, served as a Donaldsonville police officer and an Ascension Parish sheriff’s deputy in the 1980s and ’90s. Surveillance video shows the suspect was dressed in black, wearing a short-sleeve shirt, mask, and military-style trousers and exiting his auto with a semi-automatic 5.56 caliber rifle and a 9 mm pistol. Gerald, 41, was killed by a gunman in Baton Rouge, LA., Sunday, July 17, 2016.
Services will follow the Friday viewing, with burial to occur at Louisiana National Cemetery.
East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputies release balloons at a noon vigil organized by municipal court workers in downtown Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, July 20, 2106, in honor of recent slain and injured sheriff deputies and police.
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Killed in the shootout were Baton Rouge officers Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald. The killing was captured on cellphone video, sparking widespread protests against police treatment of the African-American community. Earlier this month, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who sold CDs outside a convenience store in the city, was shot to death by officers of the Baton Rouge Police Department, triggering widespread protests against the perceived institutionalized racism that exists within law enforcement agencies in the country.
