Obama orders flags at half-staff for Baton Rouge police officers

“He can do better”.

In one video posted online, Long also defended the Dallas shooter who killed five police officers on July 7. “Police officers need to get out of their cars and have one-on-one conversations with people in their community”, said the Rev. Lee Wesley, who is black.

Photographs of the three-page letter show it was signed by “Cosmo”, the first name of an alias used by Baton Rouge gunman Gavin Long, and the pictures were attached to an email sent from a Google address that Long used.

Police brass have issued an order that all officers, from the rank and file all the way up to command staff, need to be working in pairs to ensure there is always backup and always that extra set of eyes and ears alert for danger. “And he was a proud black man in his uniform”.

He said after the meeting that what happened in Baton Rouge is a reminder of the extraordinary risks and dangers that law enforcement officers take every day “to protect us and our way of life”. “Why did he pick Baton Rouge, why did he pick that location right there, and why did he kill police officers?” “In uniform, I get nasty hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat”, he wrote. In his post he said, “Don’t let hate infect your hearts”. “He loved his family, loved was he was doing, he wanted to be a police man”, said Cavalier.

Those last three words have now become a hashtag – #Igotyou.

Miles had unannounced, private meetings Tuesday with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, which lost a deputy in the fatal shootings, and Baton Rouge Police, which lost two officers.

Sgt. Don Coppola Jr. of the Baton Rouge Police Department identified the other slain Baton Rouge police officer as 41-year-old Matthew Gerald, who had been with the department less than a year. Gerald had joined the police department just four months prior to the incident Sunday. It began: “Montrell was my everything”.

Sterling’s family decried the officers’ deaths.

“I know I will be vilified by the media & police”, it read. Knowing this is what gives me a little peace and comfort.

Hundreds gathered at dusk Monday and lit candles, one off the next, in honor of the three police officers shot and killed and three others wounded Sunday in the line of duty. “Our ‘militarized tactics, ‘ as they’re being called, saved lives here. It’s different when they’re stolen from you”.

She said he was injured at one point when he was run over while escorting a funeral procession. These are good men. In addition, he said standardizing the way investigations are conducted by offering the public information quickly, making the process transparent and holding police officers “accountable for their actions in a way that private citizens are” would also help.

“It was all rants and raves”, Edmonson said. “A part of us died with him”. “What is nearly dream-like about all this”, Horad told the Times, “is that you never know what it could be that would push someone you know, like a neighbor, right over the edge”. A candlelight vigil will be held for him on Monday, July 18.

Austin Police remains on tactical alert.

The attack unfolded less than two weeks after Baton Rouge police fatally shot a black man in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated nationwide.

“Our goal as an organization is not to return to the way were as a city prior to the death of Alton Sterling, our goal is to move us progressively forward”, echoed Rev. Patti Synder, pastor of University Presbyterian Church.