President Barack Obama says the nation will get through the recent killings of police officers with the “love and empathy of public servants” like the ones who were targeted in recent days.
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Gene Harley, a 14-year police veteran, now works as the spokesman for the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team.
The man who gunned down law enforcement officers Sunday in Baton Rouge planned his approach …
“We do have a toolkit: best practices, training, resources and equipment that can help police departments protect their officers”.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says more must be done to prevent such racially charged assaults.
As a 14-year law enforcement officer, I have taken to heart all the phone calls and messages I have received from family members and shipmates from my Navy days.
But some black residents anxious the ambush could shift attention away from Sterling’s July 5 death, which many saw as just the latest example of heavy-handed policing.
Louisiana State Police spokesman Lieutenant J.B. Slaton told the New York Times on Monday that a preliminary investigation shows the Baton Rouge gunman “definitely ambushed those officers”.
It was followed a day later by the shooting death of another black man in Minnesota, whose girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath of his death on Facebook.
In the hours following the shooting, officials say there were reports of gunfire in several areas around the city, but so far those reports have all been unfounded.
President Barack Obama has told law enforcement officials that Americans recognize, respect and depend upon the hard and unsafe work they do, a rallying call of support following the ambush killings of eight officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
Gov. Pete Ricketts said Tuesday that all USA and Nebraska flags are to be flown at half-staff in honor of the three police officers killed Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Telephone video footage carried on a local news station showed police cars arriving at a suburban intersection, and then five shots rang out. I really feel for you all at this hard time. His office said he wants to be there if he’s needed.
A multi-agency memorial service for the fallen officers and deputy is in the planning stages for later next week.
Chuck Canterbury, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, welcomed Obama’s letter and said law enforcement can not be held responsible for such issues as poverty, unemployment or lack of mental health services, a point the president touched on in the letter. In both cases the gunmen were African-American military veterans and were eventually killed by police in standoffs.
Sterling’s family decried the officers’ deaths. “Please stop”, said State Rep. C. Denise Marcelle, D-Baton Rouge.
“His actions were not so much ideological”, the official said, describing him instead as a mentally troubled person.
Now police are “going to be on high alert”, he said. “That’s a unsafe spot for everybody to be on the front lines, with that type of anger and that type of heartbreak being felt”.
“This is so surreal”, said Jackson.
Only days before his killing, one of the slain officers, Jackson, had written a Facebook post expressing how hard it was for him to be both a black man and a police officer.
“I’m exhausted physically and emotionally”.
“I swear to God I love this city, but I wonder if this city loves me”, he wrote.
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In the message, Jackson said he was physically and emotionally exhausted and complained that while in uniform, he gets nasty looks. This city MUST and WILL get better.
