BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three officers are confirmed dead and three others wounded after a shooting in Baton Rouge, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman said Sunday. One suspect is dead and law enforcement officials believe two others are still at large, the spokeswoman said.
Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, said in a statement that the public should call 911 immediately if they see anything suspicious.
The shooting — which happened just before 9 a.m., less than 1 mile from police headquarters — comes amid spiraling tensions across the city — and the country — between the black community and police. The races of the suspect or suspects and the officers were not immediately known.
Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola told The Associated Press earlier that the officers were rushed to a local hospital. Coppola said authorities are asking people to stay away from the area.
Multiple police units were stationed at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, where stricken officers were believed to be undergoing treatment at a trauma center. A police officer with a long gun was blocking the parking lot at the emergency room.
Spokeswoman Ashley Mendoza said the hospital received five patients from the police shooting, all “law enforcement professionals.” Of the two who survived the shooting, one is in critical condition and the other is in fair condition.
Officers and deputies from the Baton Rouge Police Department and East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office were involved, according to Hicks.
Gov. John Bel Edwards asked the public to pray for the officers involved nad their families.
“Rest assured, every resource available to the State of Louisiana will be used to ensure the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice,” Edwards said in a statement.
An Associated Press reporter on the scene saw police vehicles with lights flashing massed about a half mile from the police headquarters on Airline Highway. Police armed with long guns on the road stopped at least two vehicles driving away from the scene and checked their trunks and vehicles before allowing them to drive away.
Police-community relations in Baton Rouge have been especially tense since the killing of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man killed by white officers earlier this month after a scuffle at a convenience store. The killing was captured on cellphone video and circulated widely on the internet.
It was followed a day later by the shooting death of another black man in Minnesota, whose girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath of his death on Facebook. Then on Thursday, a black gunman in Dallas opened fire on police at a protest about the police shootings, killing five officers and heightening tensions even further.
Over the weekend, thousands of people took to the streets in Baton Rouge to condemn Sterling’s death, including hundreds of demonstrators who congregated outside the police station. Authorities arrested about 200 people over the three-day weekend.
Michelle Rogers, 56, said the pastor at her church had led prayers Sunday for Sterling’s family and police officers, asking members of the congregation to stand up if they knew an officer.
Rogers said an officer in the congregation hastily left the church near the end of the service, and a pastor announced that “something had happened.”
“But he didn’t say what. Then we started getting texts about officers down,” she said.
Rogers and her husband drove near the scene, but were blocked at an intersection closed down by police.
“I can’t explain what brought us here,” she said. “We just said a prayer in the car for the families.”
Serves the pigs right. They brought it on themselves — and yes, even the “good” cops are dirty pigs who always look the other way to protect the violent psychopaths in their ranks. And of course all pigs are willing to enforce unjust laws, putting good people in prison and breaking up families over marijuana and other such nonsense.
Until all that changes, this will be my response when pigs get shot:
“Three officers are confirmed dead…”
OUTSTANDING!!! BEST NEWS OF THE DAY!!!!!
“… and three others wounded…”
CR@P!!!
Can’t win ’em all, but it sure would be nice.
RANGE TIME PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHOOT! TRAIN! PRACTICE!!
I have suspicions of Baton Rouge setting up a problem/reaction/solution. Friday’s arrest of the 12yr old planning on a pig roast didn’t uncover enough because they were hindered by any semblance of rights.
You’ve gotta love how Obama and some others have referred to the attack as “cowardly.”
Suurrre, there’s no danger at all in engaging cops in a gunfight. That takes no courage at all. The shooter’s dead body testifies to that.
Do those jackasses even know the definition of “coward”?
“The shooting — which happened just before 9 a.m., less than 1 mile from police headquarters — comes amid spiraling tensions across the city — and the country — between the black community and police. The races of the suspect or suspects and the officers were not immediately known.”
Aside from the author substituting senseless dashes for proper punctuation, he bases the entire article on race, after saying “the races of the suspect or suspects and the officers were not immediately known.”
I have to wonder if there’s a “journalist” anywhere who’s not a cheap whore trying to increase racial tensions. This one’s an idiot and a whore, so naturally, AP signed him up.
Three uniformed terrorists taken out? Say it aint so….
Hey, some good news today. F… them and the corporate statutes they either knowingly or unwittingly lile a dumb ass protect! It ain’t no fun when the rabbits got a gun huh pigs.
Here are a few MSM details about the “suspect” (CBS says 2 more were involved):
“The suspect has been identified as a black male named Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri, sources tell CBS News. He was born on July 17, 1987.
According to a military source, Long left the Marines in 2010 with an honorable discharge. His final Marine rank was E-5 (sergeant).”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/baton-rouge-police-shooting-suspects-information/
“Alleged suspect in Baton Rouge shooting Gavin Long spent five years in the U.S. Marines and later published a series of self-help books.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/baton-rouge-shooter-gavin-long-article-1.2715013
Fitting how I thought, Angel. Probably just a coincidence or impeccable timing after the BR investigation turns up a plot that happens to have piggies in the crosshairs? And a vet involved to boot,eh? Smell like a psyop?
Naahhhh…
Yup. When I first heard about it this morning I thought… I ‘ll bet they say that he’s a Vet…
Coinkydink…
Naahhhh…
BTW
Did you happen to check out the lyrics of the song that I posted the other day (made sure they were included in the post 🙂 😀 ) ?
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/kansas-sparks-of-the-tempest/166288#respond
No I didn’t, Angel, but I did now! 🙂 Their music never “wowed” me, but clearly their lyrics are much more than veneer? So often I am taken aback by what I didn’t think I’d see or find! Thanks for posting them btw;-) lol to myself. I got banana bread for NC to go with his puddin’.
😀 😀 😀 😉
Let’s see….
Dallas shooting:
Black person CHECK!
Assault rifle CHECK!
Former military CHECK!
Hates cops CHECK!
Race agenda CHECK!
Baton Rouge shooting:
Black person CHECK!
Assault rifle CHECK!
Former military CHECK!
Hates cops CHECK!
Race agenda CHECK!
Yep, I’d say it’s pretty much another George Soros sponsored Summer of Chaos false flag.
Expect to see one every week now until election time.
Like their New York Post cover story says, “Civil War”. The bastards want their civil war in the US and they want it now.
Don’t get sucked in. Focus on the root of the problem, not these distractions. The Zionist Jews started it all. Hang every last one of them!
I’ll throw the chicken on the rotisserie for ya, NC! You want mac n’ cheese with yer dinner? 🙂
Spot on!
I’ll bring some banana puddin’ for desert…
I’ll bet the FBI,DHS, MSM and SPLC are gnashing teeth, that the shooter wasn’t a white, right-wing, militia type. Not that any of them have any credibility in the first place