The Louisiana governor called the shooting of Baton Rouge deputies and officers "an absolutely unspeakable heinous attack" Sunday, as the city mourned the deaths of three officers and prayed for the recovery of one "fighting for his life."
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards described Sunday morning's deadly ambush on six Baton Rouge officers as "unjustifiable" and said, "the violence, the hatred just has to stop."
Officials said the officers were shot Sunday after responding to a call about a man walking down Airline Highway with an assault rifle at approximately 8:40 a.m. outside a store in Baton Rouge -- about a mile from police headquarters.
Authorities did not name the shooter, but sources identified him to Fox News as Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Mo., who they said carried out the attack on his 29th birthday.
Long served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years, including one deployment to Iraq, according to officials.
Three officers are confirmed dead in the ambush. Three others are injured, including one critically. The gunman was shot and killed at the scene.
Baton Rouge police department identified two of the slain officers as Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald.
"We believe that the person who shot and killed our officers, that he was the person that was shot and killed at the scene," Col. Mike Edmonson told reporters at an afternoon press conference.
A police spokesman told the Associated Press that two "persons of interest" in the killings have been detained near Baton Rouge.
Two of the deceased officers are from the Baton Rouge Police Department and the third is from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. A fourth officer, a sheriff's deputy, is in critical condition. Two additional officers suffered non-life threatening injuries.
A witness told WBRZ-TV that a man dressed in black with his face covered was shooting indiscriminately when he walked out between a convenience store and car wash across from Hammond Air Plaza, according to Fox radio affiliate WJBO.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/17/3-law-enforcement-officers-killed-3-others-injured-in-baton-rouge-shooting.html
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The anarchy continues and Obama does not denounce specifically those that are doing it which includes BLM. The shooter in Baton Rouge was from Kansas City not Baton Rouge which suggests there is an active anarchist movement against the police in this country. Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" specifically sites as one of it's rules to wage violence against the police and others. What is the connection one might ask. Alinsky was one of Obama's mentors as well as Clinton also an admirer. She wrote her senior year thesis on Alinsky and his ideology.
Does this suprise anyone?