A black veteran shot three police officers dead Sunday in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge, in a bloody act reminiscent of recent slayings in Dallas to avenge African Americans killed by law enforcement.
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A gunman who murdered three Louisiana police officers in an ambush “was seeking out police”, investigators have confirmed.
Since the shooting death of Sterling by Baton Rouge police, the department has anxious about threats against officers. After the shooting of five officers in Dallas on July 7, Chicago police ordered officers to work in pairs. The officer was seriously wounded, and the suspect fled and apparently killed himself, authorities said. He saw a man in a red shirt lying in an empty parking lot and “another gunman running away as more shots were being fired back and forth from several guns”.
– 8:46 a.m. reports received of the suspect, again wearing all black and standing near a auto wash located right next to the convenience store.
– 8:48 a.m. emergency EMS units starting arriving at the scene.
Erika Green told The Associated Press Sunday that she is friends with the family of Jackson, one of three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers who were killed Sunday morning.
“We are in perilous times-the country and the police profession”, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said in an interview with CBS Evening News. The shooting on Sunday killed three officers and left three others wounded, one critically.
Over the weekend, thousands of people took to the streets in Baton Rouge to condemn Sterling’s death, including hundreds of demonstrators who congregated outside the police station. Another officer was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, hospital officials said.
Jackson, 32, joined the police force in 2006; he came from a family that includes several members of police and sheriff’s department forces, Pitts told All Things Considered. L’Jean McKneely Jr. says the shooting took place outside and possibly inside the B-Quik convenience store on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge.
“Unknown where the subject’s shooting from!” one officer yells on the recording.
It is the fourth high-profile deadly encounter in the United States involving police over the past two weeks.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she condemns the attack in Baton Rouge “in the strongest terms possible” and says federal law enforcement agencies are helping on the ground.
President Barack Obama said the slayings were attacks “on the rule of law and on civilized society, and they have to stop”.
Here’s what we know about Long’s background and the views and opinions he espoused under the Setepenra pseudonym. “We need to temper our words and open our hearts, all of us”.
A cousin of Long’s said that, at least to him, Long had never expressed black nationalist views or even seemed particularly upset about police killings of black men.
He said that authorities believe the “scene is contained”, meaning that a shooter was unlikely on the loose.
Deputy Brad Garafola, a married father of four, had been with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office for 24 years, according to WAFB.
“There simply is no place for more violence”, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said.
She said NOBLE’s “voice is needed now more than ever to speak to the loss of humanity when any of us are judged at a glance – whether by the color of our skin or the color of our uniform”, and she said the Justice Department is “determined to do everything we can to bridge divides, to heal rifts, to restore trust, and to ensure that every American feels respected, supported, and safe”. The killing was captured on cellphone video. His girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath of his death on Facebook. With America’s permissive gun policies, Holder also noted USA police often find themselves confronted by people armed with military-grade weapons. 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 really was just a kind-hearted and gentle person”, Langlois said.
Last week, Baton Rouge police said they had arrested three people-a 20-year-old man and two teenagers-alleging they had broken into a pawnshop and stolen eight guns.
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Yogita Patel, Damian Paletta and Pervaiz Shallwani contributed to this article.
