Gerald served four years in the Marines and seven years in the Army before continuing to protect his community as a Baton Rouge Police Officer.
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The group planned to attend each one of the slain officers’ funerals.
Ganem’s wife noticed that one of the officers killed Sunday was the Jackson, the author of the online post.
In the process, Long killed three innocent officers, one of them black, and further exacerbated tensions between police and civilians – including nonviolent protesters.
Baton Rouge General Medical Center said Simmons was released Thursday (July 21).
Beauvais says from the death of civilians to law enforcement officers, the city has seen its share of pain for the past few weeks.
“We want them to know we came here, we’re standing for them and we’re proud of what they’ve done”, Nobles said of the officers. His casket will have a Superman shield, he said.
The three officers who were killed were Montrell Jackson, 32, and Matthew Gerald, 41, both of the Baton Rouge Police Department, and Brad Garafola, a 45-year-old deputy with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
At the request of the Louisiana Sheriff’s Association Task Force, local sheriff’s deputies are again assisting continued peacekeeping in the city of Baton Rouge.
Police officers from Texas were escorting the caskets from Edna, located about 90 miles southwest of Houston, to Baton Rouge. Gerald’s funeral is set for Friday morning.
Montrell Jackson, also of the city police department, will be buried after a Monday funeral.
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