Pooptator Obama race war...Three Officers Killed and Several Wounded in Baton Rouge Shooting

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/us/baton-rouge-shooting.html?_r=0

BATON ROUGE, La. — Three law enforcement officers were fatally shot and at
least three others wounded on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., the East Baton
Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said, less than two weeks after a black man
was killed by the police here, sparking nightly protests.

A suspect had been killed, most likely by police gunfire, and two others,
described as wearing all black, were being sought, said a police
spokesman, Cpl. L’Jean McKneely.

“We do believe there is more than one suspect,” he said.

Speaking to reporters in Baton Rouge, Corporal McKneely said officers
responding to the shooting were checking the area, a major thoroughfare
dotted with gas stations and large discount stores, for possible
explosives. “We’re going to check the scene thoroughly to protect
ourselves,” he said. State and federal law enforcement are assisting in
the investigation.

Sunday’s shooting is the latest episode in a month of violence and
extraordinary racial tension in the country, and took place after Baton
Rouge officers on July 5 fatally shot Alton B. Sterling, a black man who
was selling CDs outside a convenience store. The night after Mr. Sterling
was killed, a black man was killed by the police during a traffic stop in
a St. Paul suburb, and then the next night, five police officers were
killed by a gunman in Dallas who said he wanted to kill police officers,
particularly white officers.

Details remained sketchy on Sunday afternoon, and it was unclear whether
the attack on the police had been planned or happened during another
crime. There were varying reports about the number of officers wounded,
with one putting the number at seven.

The shooting was met here with disbelief. “It’s just crazy; we should be
worried about what we’re going to leave our kids 20, 30 years from now,”
said Bryce Butler, 27, a cook at the Rum House restaurant, which is near
the shooting scene. “I think no one should be victimized, cops or anyone.”

“It shouldn’t have happened,” said Dan Williams, 46, an electrician. “Both
incidents were sad,” he said, referring to Mr. Sterling’s death and
Sunday’s shooting. He anticipates more violence.

Carol D. Powell Lexing, a lawyer for the Sterling family, said in an
interview that the family did not condone the shooting of officers and
that protesting police misconduct was “not all-out war on the entire
Police Department.”

“No one condones violence on anyone, and we certainly don’t condone the
shootings that have gone forth in Dallas and now in Baton Rouge,” she
said. “It saddens our heart that we are even back to having this
conversation again, having a repeat, having some type of copycat out
there. We ask that there be no more copycats.”

The police in Baton Rouge had in recent days announced that they were
investigating a plot by four people to shoot at police officers, and they
cited the threat to explain the heavy police presence at protests.

The police said a 17-year-old was arrested after running from a burglary
of the Cash American Pawn Shop in Baton Rouge. He and three others,
including a 12-year-old arrested on Friday, were believed to have broken
into the pawnshop through the roof. It was unclear whether the burglary
was in any way connected to Sunday’s shooting.

The police chief, Carl Dabadie Jr., told reporters at the time that the
17-year-old had told the police “that the reason the burglary was being
done was to harm police officers.”

The explanation, however, was met with skepticism on social media sites,
where many people believed the report was concocted by the police to
justify their militarized response to the protest.

“That was bull, it was a scare tactic to calm things down,” Arthur Reed,
of Stop the Killing, the group that first released the video of Mr.
Sterling’s shooting, said on Sunday. “And it worked. I ain’t going out
there if people are going to be out there trying to kill police.”

The intense protests after Mr. Sterling’s shooting were beginning to lose
steam. Sima Atri, a social justice lawyer who represented some of the
protesters who were arrested last weekend, said earlier in the week that
many protesters were too afraid to hit the streets after the authorities’
heavy-handed approach last weekend, which included nearly 200 arrests.
(Nearly 100 charges were dropped Friday.)

A protest on Saturday afternoon had less than a dozen people (all of them
white), huddled on the side of the road under a tent to escape the blazing
sun, flashing signs at passing cars. Once the sun went down, the crowd
grew to about 125, most of them white, Mr. Reed said. Corporal McKneely
said it was unclear if the shooting on Sunday was connected to the
protests. “We are not sure of anything right now,” he said.

The episode on Sunday began when the police received reports of an
individual walking with an assault rifle near the Hammond Aire Plaza
shopping center on Airline Highway. Then around 8:30 a.m., gunfire
erupted.

Mark Clements, who lives near the shopping center, said he was in his
backyard when he heard shots ring out. “I heard probably 10 to 12 gunshots
go off,” he said in a telephone interview. “We heard a bunch of sirens and
choppers and everything since then.”

On the Police Department’s dispatch radio, a voice could be heard
shouting: “Shots fired! Officer down! Shots fired. Officer down! Got a
city officer down.”

Officers from both the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and the Baton
Rouge Police Department were struck by bullets, the authorities said.

Trooper Cedrick Ross with the Louisiana State Police said in a brief phone
interview that law enforcement officials were still working on gathering
information on the identification and description of the suspect. He said
that the only information that was “somewhat confirmed” was that the
suspect was a black male who had been wearing a ski mask.

Wounded officers were taken to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical
Center, which was swarmed with police officers on Sunday afternoon.

Kelly Zimmerman, a hospital spokeswoman, said five law enforcement
officers had been admitted there, three of whom had died from their
wounds. One person was listed in critical condition, and another was
listed in fair condition, she said. Rebekah Maricelli, a spokeswoman with
Baton Rouge General Medical Hospital, said in an interview that a sixth
person, whom she described as a police officer, had been admitted to the
hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

In a statement, Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana scheduled a 3 p.m. news
conference to discuss the shooting.

“This is an unspeakable and unjustified attack on all of us at a time when
we need unity and healing,” the governor said in a statement. “Rest
assured, every resource available to the State of Louisiana will be used
to ensure the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice.”

Louisiana has lately taken a harder line to defend its police officers,
who this year will become a protected class under the state’s hate crimes
law.

“I’ve read various accounts of people who I would say were employing a
deliberate campaign to terrorize our officers,” State Representative Lance
Harris, a Republican and the author of the proposal, said this year. “I
just wanted to give an extra level of protection to the people who protect
us.”

Mr. Harris’s proposal, which the Legislature overwhelmingly approved and
Mr. Edwards signed in May, will make it a hate crime to select a victim
“because of actual or perceived employment as a law enforcement officer,
firefighter or emergency medical services personnel.”

The shooting in Baton Rouge took place as protesters and Republicans were
arriving in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention. Steve
Thacker, 57, of Westlake, Ohio, stood in Cleveland’s Public Square on
Sunday holding a semiautomatic AR-15-style assault rifle as news broke
that several officers had been killed in Baton Rouge.

After the shooting in Dallas, Stephen Loomis, the president of the
Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, urged people not to take their
guns anywhere near Cleveland’s downtown during the convention because
officers were already in a “heightened state.”

When asked about Mr. Loomis’s comments and the Baton Rouge shooting, Mr.
Thacker said despite the shooting, he wanted to make a statement and show
that people can continue to openly carry their weapons.

“I pose no threat to anyone. I’m an American citizen. I’ve never been in
trouble for anything,” said Mr. Thacker, an information technology
engineer. “This is my time to come out and put my two cents worth in,
albeit that it is a very strong statement.”


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