A police helicopter flies over the crime scene where Baton Rouge police were shot, in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday, July 17, 2016.
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Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Michael D. Edmonson told CNN that Long – a former Marine from Kansas City, Missouri – was a skilled rifleman who moved strategically to ambush officers. “Someone was still actively on a Facebook page they created to say he was still alive”.
GUNMAN Gavin Long, who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sunday before being shot dead, was revealed yesterday to have served in the US Marine Corps from 2005 to 2010. “These officers were intentionally targeted and assassinated”.
“At this point, that’s when calls started coming in that there was an individual, exact words were a ‘dude with a rifle going down Airline Highway'”.
President Obama has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff until Friday to honor the police officers shot and killed over the weekend in Baton Rouge, La.
Miles met privately in unannounced meetings with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office and Baton Rouge Police.
Officer Matthew Gerald, 41, was also killed by Long.
As we noted then, Baton Rouge police had recently been criticized for carrying batons, long guns and shields at protests where they arrested around 200 people.
The attack took place near a convenience store near police headquarters. But again he was thwarted. “A badge should not be a bulls-eye”, Southwood said in the statement. “To the rest of my family and other officers please watch your 6 and God please watch over them”. In fact, emergency calls were made from the public, not from Long.
“We are mourning right now”, says Baton Rouge Police Chief, Carl Dabadie. “That is the engagement that you will see that his movements articulated, they are intact, they are combative and they are real”. One officer remains in critical condition.
That shooting, on July 5, was partly recorded on a video that was widely viewed online. I’m working in these streets so any protestors, officers, friends, family, or whoever, if you see me and need a hug or want to say a prayer. This sheriff’s deputy, he leaves his cover and goes back to help that police officer. “He returned fire until the very end”, the sheriff said.
The other two officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Long fired directly into the auto, shooting Tullier in the head and stomach, walking ever closer as he pulled the trigger, Gautreaux said, before exchanging gunfire with Deputy Bruce Simmons, 57. The bullet shattered the bone between his shoulder to elbow, where he now has a titanium rod.
The context makes it even worse. This city MUST and WILL get better.
But Long, who was black, said in a series of social media messages posted in recent days, some from Dallas, that he was fed up with the mistreatment of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement, and praised the attack on Dallas police.
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“This guy was going to another location”.
