The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing someone who was not named in the story, that the suspected shooter who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge was affiliated with an antigovernment group.
Police said the suspected shooter was dead. Two others had been arrested, but it was unclear of their connection to the incident.
A “person briefed on the investigation” told the Journal that the suspected shooter was from Missouri and affiliated with a group called the “New Freedom Group.”
The suspected shooter was not named in the publication’s report.
Read the Journal’s full report.
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I’ll be waiting to hear whether this qualifies as the wannabe freedom fighters’ fantasy of armed resistance against the tyrannical government. If not this, then what, exactly?
Name of shooter has been reported as Gavin Eugene Long, 29, from open carry Missouri, a Black man that has been associated with the radical anti-gov’t Sovereign Citizen’s group, which is also known to have its roots in racist and anti-semitic shit. His birthday was today according to one website I went to…so make out of that, what you will.