Biden to speak at vigil for slain Baton Rouge officers

The three fallen officers were remembered as dedicated public servants and devoted family men.

“They were defined by their courage”, he said.

It took them losing their lives so that people would know who they were and honor them.

Hundreds of people gathered at a Baton Rouge church Thursday for a vigil honoring three law enforcement officers who were killed during a shootout with a lone gunman outside a convenience store.

The drop may be the result of the short-term response of a police department whose capabilities were stretched thin by protests held in response to the Sterling shooting and was still reeling from the Dallas attack on police officers.

“When that assassin’s bullet targeted our heroes and he was an assassin he not only targeted them, he targeted the city”.

The vice president said the three men’s stories had “touched the souls of the entire nation”. Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed during a struggle with two white police officers July 5. The killing was captured on cellphone video and circulated widely on the internet.

Biden said he heard that Sterling’s aunt embraced the father of one of the slain officers during a chance encounter after the shooting. (I worked as a crime analyst in New Orleans under Serpas.) “An immediate realignment of resources to protest policing generally requires that you reassign all of your proactive units – i.e., narcotics units, detectives units and other staff headquarters units”, Serpas said.

“When I got down there, you could see that the city of Baton Rouge was hurting”, he said. But she said the gathering shows the community is united by “collective heartache” and a “common humanity”.

“It doesn’t matter that we didn’t know the officers that passed away – we still have that comradery and that feeling like we lost a true brother”, Williams said. In a moment of heightened tension between the police and a city’s residents, the trends in proactive policing can tell us whether officers are engaging with residents more or less often than they once did. As attorney general, Lynch has traveled the country on a “community policing tour” that highlights best practices of local departments.

The ambivalent emotions that black police officers experience are as old as the first time an African-American put on a badge and walked a beat in the black community.

One of the wounded Louisiana officers, Nicholas Tullier, 41, remains hospitalized in critical condition, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office said on Thursday. Montrell Jackson surrounded Nate Gallagher on Monday in Baton Rouge.

His widow, Trenisha Jackson, smiled broadly as she encouraged audience members to stand up, raise their right hands and repeat these words after her: “I will not let hate infect my heart”.

Tonja Garafola described saying goodbye to her husband, Brad, for the last time.

“About an hour later I received a call that I will never forget, telling me that Brad was shot and to head to the hospital”, Garafola continued.

“Since then, our children have slept in our bed just so they can feel. the presence of their dad”, she said. His wife, Dechia Gerald — now a widow with two young daughters — called him “my blue-eyed rock” in a written tribute.

“My heart is heavy but the admiration and pride I feel gives me the strength I need to carry on” Gerald said at the podium.

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