Friend says slain officer was ‘made to serve’

President Barack Obama has been briefed on the shootings and will be updated throughout the day, the White House said.

He also wrote, “These are trying times”. Multiple police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge.

“You always think, ‘Oh, it’ll never happen here, ‘ but now that it’s becoming more common, you say to yourself, ‘Maybe it will happen here.’ So you have to stay on your toes”, said Officer Shawn Booth, 27, a New Haven officer for 21/2 years.

The fear that police would be targeted in revenge attacks became a heartbreaking reality on July 7 when five officers were killed by a heavily armed sniper in Dallas at a march held to protest the deaths of Sterling and Castile.

Yet even so, Mr. Now we continue to speak out about the issues that have helped create disconnects with members of the communities to work so hard to protect.

Just as the city appeared to take a breath, the next blow hit Sunday, when a masked former Marine ambushed law enforcement along a busy highway, killing three officers and wounding three more before he was shot and killed.

In 2015, Long legally changed his name to Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, claiming to be a member of the Washitaw Nation, a group of African-Americans claiming to be a Native American nation in the United States.

In one video, Mr.

He had a wife and two daughters, Poe said, and was devoted to them. Sovereign citizens, many people have heard of the Posse Comitatus, are folks that believe the power of government doesn’t go past the county level and the county sheriff is the highest authority. “It’s only fighting back or money”. We have your backs. Zero have been successful just over simply protesting. Witherspoon, a Baltimore activist and head of the Baltimore chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

“Every day, you confront danger so it does not find our families, carry burdens so they do not fall to us, and courageously meet test after test to keep us safe”, the president wrote in an open letter to the USA law enforcement community Tuesday.

Many who came were initially resistant to the introspection and candor that were asked.

The president acknowledged that there is some mistrust of police officers within communities; he has previously received some criticism that he had deepened the divided feeling between police and communities through his comments following recent events.

“People have been responding for many years and many generations”.

The attorney general says Agents from the FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are on the scene, and Justice Department will make available victim services and federal funding support, and provide investigative assistance to the fullest extent possible.

Pierce said he was friends with Alton Sterling, the black man shot by white police officers two weeks ago.

But while Sterling’s death had started discussions about how to improve relations between minority communities and law enforcement, Dunn said the shooting deaths of the officers damaged those efforts. “They’re already talking about how they feel that their service is being ignored, so of course they’re going to be more nervous”. Black advocates embrace the belief that African-Americans settled North America before Columbus.

“We demand law and order”, Trump said in a Facebook posting Sunday afternoon. “But we’ll be there to give him memories and let him know how his dad was a great man, and how he died with honour”.

“His presence will be missed for sure”, Ator said.

And Wilson describes the feelings that have run through him amid calls to respond in unsafe situations: “One of the things that black officers have to make up in their minds on is, are you a police officer who’s black, or a black man or woman who’s a police officer? For myself I’m the latter not the former, because at 60 years old there’s no way I can stop being black”.

Horad, like other neighbors willing to talk about Long, said he was struggling to reconcile Long the killer with Long the man on a bicycle: “What is nearly dream-like about all this is that you never know what it could be that would push someone you know – like a neighbor – right over the edge”.

Police did not identify the suspect, but a USA government official told Reuters he was Gavin Long, of Kansas City, Missouri. “What are we doing to our veterans?” He called for a “focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further”.

“I’m mad”, she said with tears in her eyes. “Remember who you are, where you came from, and why you’re doing what you’re doing”. It ain’t about being on the job for the excitement, it ain’t about being on the job for the overtime and the extra money.