Three other officers were wounded.
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Louisiana State Police Lt. J.B. Slaton said authorities did not plan to release any new details Tuesday.
The shooting less than a mile from police headquarters added to the tensions across the country between the black community and police.
“Right now, we are concentrating our attention on the lives of the officers and their families”, Slaton said.
Tassin, who worked in two all-black schools in the Louisiana area and helped to integrate schools in one Louisiana parish before retiring, blamed President Obama for allowing “radical organizations” to spread violence.
“We don’t need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or to advance an agenda. We could actually see in the video the bullets hitting the concrete around him”.
“As Pope Francis has indicated”, he continued, “we must truly seek to “encounter” those who are racially or ethnically different from us in a real effort to appreciate the countless gifts that unite us, and to seek to address and to solve the problems that challenge and seek to divide us, complicating our lives together”.
Yet the first act Monday was likely to underline how divisive Trump has been. Even when some protest you, you protect them.
“My honest condolences to those who have lost loved ones today or in the past weeks in the violence that has occurred in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, Dallas, Istanbul and Nice”, he said.
In a letter to the National Fraternal Order of Police, the president sent a two page, 900 world letter reassuring law enforcement officials that they have his support.
Obama’s letter was issued on Monday, the same day that Republicans speaking at the National Convention called for American political leaders to support police officers.
A glimpse of how Long spent his time in Baton Rouge is provided in a video that appears to have been recorded by him shortly before the shooting.
While the president has made a point in recent days of saying there is no justification for attacking police officers, he has faced strong criticism for not doing enough to defend law enforcement over the past few years.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and one of his predecessors, Newt Gingrich, have argued for frank conversations about race, citing some hurdles unique to African-Americans. “We will do it with the goodwill of activists like those I have sat with in recent days, who have pledged to work together to reduce violence even as they voice their disappointments and fears”.
“I don’t do my job any differently, but I’m just more on alert”, said Groleau, a police officer for eight years.
“This is not something that we’re going to be able to do exclusively from this office”, Obama said.
LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) – Mike Kirk leans across the counter of the pawnshop where he works for $11 an hour.
He and two customers ponder what this city might look like in 10 years if nothing changes. I don’t want to put those folks who are peacefully protesting for reform in the same category. The other wonders if it might simply cease to exist.
Gavin Long, 29, of Kansas City, Missouri, filed documents previous year declaring himself a sovereign citizen, as a member of the United Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah.
Long, a former military sergeant, had two rifles and a handgun when he shot six officers, three of whom died. He later joined the Army and served as a decorated soldier from 2002 to 2009, including three tours in Iraq. He was listed as a “data network specialist”.
After the Marines, Long attended the University of Alabama for just the spring 2012 semester, according to university spokesman Chris Bryant.
Davis discussed his friendship with Sterling, what the police and community’s relationship is like and what his mother told him about how to interact with police.
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During a call to dispatch, an officer said, “unknown where the shots are coming from”. On Sunday, three Baton Rouge police officers were killed by a lone gunman. But they’re divided on the presumptive Republican nominee’s proposed temporary ban on the entry of Muslims from other countries, a new survey finds. Among Trump’s supporters, just 38 percent are in favor of a path to citizenship.
