“On the one hand”, he says, “we have this crisis in police legitimacy and on the other side of the coin we have these disgusting shootings of police officers by misguided people”.
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Major Doug Cain said Sunday, “we are not ready to say he acted alone”. The races of the suspect and the officers were not immediately known.
State police spokeswoman Trooper Kelly Grant said “troopers [should] remain vigilant” in response to the shootings. “We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: there is no justification for violence against law enforcement”.
Obama said that going into the political conventions, elected officials and interest groups should focus their words and actions on uniting the country, rather than dividing it. Police initially believed there were multiple suspects, but later said the dead shooter is the only gunman.
An Army veteran opened fire on police, killing five and wounding seven. McKeon said that people across the country support police and troopers, but “radicalized criminals and terrorists have declared war on the guardians of democracy”. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2016 CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Five days ago, I traveled to Dallas for the memorial service of the officers who were slain there. “I don’t know where he’s ****ing shooting from”, the officer said.
“Shots fired! Officer down!” one of the responding officers can be heard saying.
“There simply is no place for more violence”, Edwards said. That doesn’t help anyone, it doesn’t further the conversation, it doesn’t address any injustice, perceived or real. “It is just an injustice in and of itself”. “We’re grieving for each other, we’re grieving for our loss, and we’re grieving for our families”. At least one was carrying what appeared to be an AR-15 automatic rifle amid the sound of gunfire, he said.
The attack began at a gas station on Airline Highway.
A spokesman for the Louisiana governor says that the governor is at the hospital where police officers were taken following a shooting in Baton Rouge. Police had arrested three people who had reportedly stolen guns from a local pawn shop in order to target officers.
In a statement, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said, “The tragic events of the last few weeks – from Falcon Heights to Dallas to Baton Rouge – are deeply troubling and can not be allowed to persist”.
Therefore, the identity of the three police officers that were shot in Baton Rouge still remains unknown.
Lynch said everyone’s hearts and prayers are with the fallen and wounded officers, their families and the Baton Rouge community in “this extraordinarily hard time”.
Tensions between Baton Rouge police and residents have been running high since the killing of Sterling, 37, whom officers shot while he was pinned to the ground following a scuffle in front of a convenience store where he had been selling CDs. Castile’s girlfriend broadcasted the immediate, graphic aftermath of the shooting on Facebook Live from the passenger’s seat of the vehicle.
Investigators are now questioning two men who were detained in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Three other law enforcement officers were injured.
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Terrance Carter spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday by telephone from his work. “He wasn’t this type of man”.
