“We believe that the person that shot and killed our officers that he is the person that was shot and killed at the scene”.
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Vancel said he had gone to work on a flooring job near the gas station when he heard semi-automatic gunfire and perhaps a handgun.
The victims were from Baton Rouge Police Department as well as East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office. “Then we started getting texts about officers down”, she said. The dead suspect in the Baton Rouge shooting was wearing all black and was wearing a mask, Baton Rouge Police Department Sgt. Don Coppola said.
“What it indicates is we’re in the middle of what may be a transformation in the relationship between citizens and the police department in matters of transparency and accountability”, says Jody Armour, a professor of law who specializes in criminal and racial justice at the University of Southern California. Political and law enforcement leaders at Our Lady of the Lake hospital to be with family members of the police officers.
“We demand law and order”.
President Obama released the following statement on the Baton Rouge shooting: I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. Three others were wounded.
Four suspects were arrested after they stole firearms from a pawn shop and one told authorities they were planning to attack police in the Baton Rouge area.
It was not immediately clear why the officers were shot.
Law enforcement officers man a road block on Airline Highway and Goodwood Blvd. after police were shot earlier in the day in Baton Rouge, La.
“We do know, and do believe there are more than one suspect”.
Tensions in Baton Rouge have run high since the police shooting of Alton Sterling on July 5.
The shooting took place around 8:45 a.m.in the Old Hammond area of the city, officials said.
Once again, law enforcement officials have been killed.
The Black Lives Matter movement – which campaigns against police killings of African Americans – disavowed the killing of the officers and said in a statement it stands for “dignity, justice and respect”.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and the State Police will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. Three others have been wounded in the Louisiana shooting.
The officers in Baton Rouge were responding to a call of shots fired when they were ambushed by at least one gunman, Mayor Kip Holden told NBC News.
The White House has been in contact with local officials in Baton Rouge and offered any assistance necessary. “That’s why we’re alerting the community”, said Cpl.
Nationwide protests erupted following Sterling’s death and the killing of another black man, Philando Castile, at the hands of a police officer in Minnesota.
The races of the suspects and the officers has not been revealed. Three officers are dead and three are hospitalized with injuries. When police arrived to the scene, the man opened fire.
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