Police: Baton Rouge Shooter ‘Intentionally Assassinated’ Officers

Millville, N.J. police chaplain Robert Ossler kisses a cross at a makeshift memorial at the fatal shooting scene in Baton Rouge, La., where several law enforcement officers were killed, Monday, July 18, 2016. A forme... Millville, N.J. police chaplain Robert Ossler kisses a cross at a makeshift memorial at the fatal shooting scene in Baton Rouge, La., where several law enforcement officers were killed, Monday, July 18, 2016. A former Marine set out to ambush police in Baton Rouge, authorities said Monday, a day after the law enforcement officers were killed in the attack. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) MORE LESS

A day after two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday, officials said that the deceased shooter targeted and “intentionally assassinated” those officers.

“There is no doubt whatsoever these officers were intentionally targeted and assassinated,” Louisiana State Police Col. Michael Edmonson said in a Monday news conference. “It was a calculated act against those who work to protect this community every single day.”

Officials confirmed that the shooter, who was killed by police, had been identified as Gavin Long, 29, of Kansas City, Missouri. Edmonson said that he believed Long chose locations that would target police officers. He said Long’s intentions were “accurate and engaging,” as he ignored citizens who were in the area.

“He came in here from somewhere else to do harm to our community and specifically to the law enforcement officers in our community,” Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) said of Long.

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  1. “He came in here from somewhere else to do harm to our community”

    Thus justifying Trump’s xenophobia.

  2. Sad sad sad…you would ‘think’ that it would have the RNC Convention Speakers watching their mouths…nah…

  3. I don’t see the problem. He was just profiling and found a bunch of people who fit the description of those who were likely to intentionally target minorities for some unnecessary perforation. Profiling works, right Teatrolls?

  4. Given what a bunch of whiny entitled infants they are as it is can you image what it would be like if white conservative males had to put up with the same shit black men deal with on a daily basis? Shit like this would be an hourly occurence.

  5. Avatar for trnc trnc says:

    Although the “somewhere else” was Missouri.

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