Shortly before 9 a.m. this morning, shots rang out nearby Baton Rouge’s Hammond Aire Plaza, a local shopping center, leaving three law enforcement officials — one East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office deputy and two Baton Rouge Police officers — dead and three others wounded.
The suspects have yet to be identified but one was reportedly killed at the scene and two others were apprehended for questioning after being spotted changing their all-black clothes in a nearby Walmart, WAFB-TV reports.
Baton Rouge Police Department Sgt. Don Coppola tells CNN the dead suspect was wearing “some type of mask to conceal (the shooter’s) identity” after they responded to a call involving a “suspicious person walking down Airline Highway with an assault rifle,” the shooting began.
This latest attack on law enforcement comes in a city still reeling from the Alton Sterling shooting less than two weeks ago when cell phone footage captured two police officers fatally shooting the black man who had no weapons in his hand. A day later, a Minnesota cop fatally shot 32-year-old Philando Castille as he sat in the passenger seat of the vehicle he was pulled over in that possessed a broken taillight.
Then, on July 7, 2016, in an unsolicited retaliation, Micah Xavier Johnson used a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Dallas as cover to kill five police officers and injure eleven others before he was killed by a robot denotation bomb following an intense standoff. President Obama condemned the attack on law enforcement and did the same for the recent shooting in Baton Rouge.
“These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop,” Obama said in a statement through the White House.
“For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault. These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop,” the president stated. “I want to be clear: there is no justification for violence against law enforcement. None,” the president continued. “These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one. They right no wrongs. They advance no causes.”
“Today, on the Lord’s day, all of us stand united in prayer with the people of Baton Rouge, with the police officers who’ve been wounded, and with the grieving families of the fallen,” Obama said. “May God bless them all.”
Authorities also recently thwarted an alleged plot to kill Baton Rouge police officers on July 16, which included stolen handguns from a pawn shop and a 12-year-old boy.
Another piece of race baiting bullshit “news.”let’s scream racism because the shooter was black and the cops where white! The problem is that idiots think they are going to get away with shooting cops. Meanwhile MORE minorities and poor people in general will be harassed and harmed because morons keep escalating this bullshit. Anton “didn’t have a gun in his hand” according to this article, but was clearly resisting arrest AND was a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. All of this over sensitive race baiting bullshit is just going to get more poor people killed. Had Antin been white this wouldn’t be an issue.
“Had Antin been white this wouldn’t be an issue” — First his name was Anton and had he been white, he’d likely still be alive or not even confronted in a hostile manner selling CDs or have you forgot that Laquan McDonald couldn’t get the same courtesy as this guy?http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/04/06/murder-suspect-surprises-cop-with-knife-orig-vstan-dlewis.cnn Second only those too chickenshit to point out injustices in areas that benefit them scream “race baiting” everytime a conversation of race comes up.
OK. So dude was selling CDs. The call was that a man selling CDs wearing a red t-shirt in front of a store threatened someone with a gun. He was wearing a red t-shirt standing in front of that store holding CDs, idiot. They where doing a felony approach on a potentially armed suspect matching a very specific description. Had he been any color and reacted in that matter, the result would be the same. Keep kidding yourself with those blinders on buddy. All of this bullshit is going to get Trump elected. Thank yourself when that happens. Nothing on the 17 year old Mexican kid that was shot 17 times by the police for throwing rocks at a cop car though. Strange. That wasn’t news. The kid, a minor, wasn’t a convicted felon or in possession of a firearm. He also didn’t get the opportunity to lay down with a tazer pointed at him. He didn’t get tazed. Nice spelling of Anton’s name. I actually typed quickly and figured people would not nitpick comment section spelling. BTW, there are literally hundreds of bodies on YouTube of the police shooting unarmed white people, Latinos and blacks. Making it about black people weakens the argument on police executions. No one is focusing the fact that 12.5% of the population gets convicted of 45% of the crimes in this country. I guess that would be “race baiting.” LOLOLOLOLOL. When the police, or anyone pointing a gun at you tells you to do something, do it, or you run the risk of being shot, right or wrong. People need to stop arguing with the cops and take the L. Sue afterwards if you are right.
Bruh, “No one is focusing the fact that 12.5% of the population gets convicted of 45% of the crimes in this country” because the judicial system has shown (and there’s data to prove it) that blacks get arrested and/or convicted at a rate disproportionately higher than whites for the SAME EXACT crimes. Literally a white guy and a black guy can both be smoking weed outside in their respective neighborhoods and they both get approached by cops and the black guy is something like 70% more likely to get arrested for it.
My b, I accidentally posted this response to someone else……Bruh, “No one is focusing the fact that 12.5% of the population gets convicted of 45% of the crimes in this country” because the judicial system has shown (and there’s data to prove it) that blacks get arrested and/or convicted at a rate disproportionately higher than whites for the SAME EXACT crimes. Literally a white guy and a black guy can both be smoking weed outside in their respective neighborhoods and they both get approached by cops and the black guy is something like 70% more likely to get arrested for it.
You the same dude that always post that more whites are killed by cops than blacks. I asked 2 weeks ago to cite your sources. You went quiet but your still talkin this talk. The funny thing is by you not backing your comment up your actually race bating.
fuck tha police!!! they deserved it!!! good pig is a dead pig!!!
Beyonce is happy. She was the messenger declaring war on cops.
Wow. You are as dumb as that comment
I love your dumbness crackee
That McDonald’s tho
This the chickens coming home to roost or in others words this what is due to happen the true childrenof isrel are rising
My b, that reply was meant for someone else
Who cares?
Real nigga FrFr
Fuck 12 they killing us
This attack towards police officers is most likely a response to Alton Sterling’s death. But once incidents like this and Dallas happen, it does not make the offender any better than those who partook in the police brutality incidents. The police brutality incidents involved innocent people losing their lives. Micah Xavier Johnson killed innocent police officers in Dallas that had no relation to the events in Louisiana and Minnesota. The three officers in Baton Rouge that lost their lives most likely had no relation to the Sterling incident and are just as innocent as the police officers in Dallas. All of these movements like Black Lives Matter, 23 Ways, and even the lone wolves want radical transformation in racial justice and equality. But if your response towards police brutality is brutality you are no better; You are just as nefarious as those who partook in the police brutality incidents.
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u need english lessons muthafucka!
“Micah Xavier Johnson used a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Dallas as cover to kill five police officers and injury eleven others”, seriously edit your articles.
fuck the cops they started dat shit so what goes around comes where? AROUND!
I hope the cops profile and kill you for jaywalking
Nice going, dindus.
Isnt this the city where the bloods and crips were just talking about uniting? Lol
Nice!
No justice no peace
People celebrating this are sick and deserve to die