“Police officers need to get out of their cars and have one-on-one conversations with people in their community”, said the Rev.
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“When I saw this I just fell down to my knees”, Sterling said. According to The Times-Picayune, members of this group moved into a vacant New Orleans home in February, claiming property rights before changing the locks.
Services are pending for East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s Deputy Brad Garafola.
A fourth officer, a deputy sheriff, remains in critical condition after undergoing emergency surgery. Jackson was black, as was the gunman.
29-year-old Long was shot and killed by a SWAT team marksman who fired a single shot from 100 yards away. “There is no doubt whatsoever that these officers were intentionally targeted and assassinated”.
On Sunday, in the hours after the attack on officers in Baton Rouge, La., police reformers were quick to condemn the killings – and there were touching efforts to bridge the divide between the black community and police, such as a cookout in Wichita, Kan. Long probably meant to keep killing officers as long as he could, Dabadie said. “We will do it with the good will 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”. The three are among 10 law enforcement officers killed around the country by attackers over a 10-day span. The meetings, which were unannounced, lasted more than an hour. This is why. We are up against a force that is not playing by the rules…. Police in too many cities come to work each day fearing that any citizen they encounter might be armed and unsafe, regardless of the color of their skin.For now, the healthy national debate over the factors that have created those realities – and what can be done about them – is being drowned out by the sound of gunshots and the tears of peace-loving, law-abiding Americans who simply want the shooting to stop.
Officials yesterday provided the first detailed accounts of the shooting scene, using a map to describe the attack.
Investigators trying to figure out why a former Marine sergeant would eventually murder police in broad daylight will likely look to the writings and online footprint of Cosmo Setepenra, the name Long legally changed his name to.
But over the last few years, Long left a lengthy Internet footprint documenting a growing interest in black separatism. Protests rocked the city following the July 5 death of a black man during a confrontation with two white police officers. That case is being investigated by the Justice Department.
CNN filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the military to get the records about Long’s service.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Washitaw Nation “as a sovereign tribe descended from pre-Columbian blacks who settled in North America”.
Those strategies include putting more officers on the streets and sending more backup to calls than previously. Followers of the movement, and other sovereign citizen groups, often try to dodge paying taxes.
Chilling new images released by investigators offer new detail on the Baton Rouge gunman’s deadly attack.
In the letter, Obama said “we will get through this hard time together”. “He’s not in good shape at all”.
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Wesley hopes to address “how we employ people in our law enforcement agencies, how we vet them” during the the event. He served an 8-month tour of Iraq, beginning in the summer of 2008.
