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Former U. S. Marine Kills 3 Law Officers In Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge officers: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Garafola and Baton Rouge Police Officers Montrell Jackson and Matthew Gerald were fatally shot by a gunman outside a con- venience store in Baton Rouge. Three other officers were injured.
Fire Captain Fired For Posting He’d Run Over BLM Protesters
BATON ROUGE, LA --- Another Black U. S. armed forces veteran has gone on a killing rampage against law enforcement officers, this time in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The former Marine from Missouri ambushed and killed three law officers and wounded three others on Sun- day.
Baton Rouge has been on high alert after 2 officers exe- cuted a Black man in front of a local convenience store, lead- ing to nationwide protests and, five Dallas, Texas officers being killed on July 7, by an- other discharged military man.
On Sunday, a man identified as Gavin Long of Kansas City on his 29th birthday killed two police officers and a sheriff's deputy, police sources said. Long was a former Marine who spent time in Iraq and was discharged at the rank of sergeant in 2010, according to the U.S. military.
Police officers who re- sponded to Sunday's shootings killed Long in a gun battle. The weapon was an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle.
The victims have been iden- tified as Officer Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola.
The gunman also critically wounded a deputy who is "fighting for his life," said East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux. Another wounded deputy and police of- ficer have non-life-threatening wounds, law officers said.
Officer Jackson had posted on Facebook on July 8 how physically and emotion- ally drained he had been since protests had erupted in Baton Rouge after the July 5 killing of Alton Sterling by police.
"I swear to God I love this city, but I wonder if this city loves me. In uniform I get nasty, hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat. ... These are trying times. Please don't let hate in- fect your heart."
119,000 Sign Petition To Label ‘Black Lives Matter’ As Terrorist Group
Baton Rouge shooter: Gavin Long.
Gunman Posted Message Long was allegedly a prolific user of social media, with dozens of videos, podcasts, tweets and posts under his pseudonym Cosmo Sete- penra. Under that name, Long also tweeted a link to a news story about Dallas shooter Micah Johnson and said the shooter was "one of
us! # MY Religion is Justice." A law enforcement source said Long "was not alone dur- ing his stay in Baton Rouge," but it's unclear if others he was with knew about or were ac-
tively involved in any plot. The FBI is running down names of possible associates, another law enforcement offi-
cial said.
In YouTube videos posted
July 8 and 10, reviewed by CNN, Long, using the name "Cosmo," spoke about the need for "fighting back" and what people should say about him "if anything happened to me."
In the July 10 video, recorded, he said, in Dallas, he says, "Zero have been success- ful just over simple protest- ing."
"You gotta fight back," he says on the video.
Long allegedly rented a car in Kansas City after the Dallas shootings and drove it to Baton Rouge. Given that Long posted a YouTube video from Dallas on July 10, it is likely he drove to Baton Rouge via Dal- las.
Black Lives Matter may as well be ISIS — according to more than 119,000 people who have signed an online petition to the White House calling for the federal government to deem the group a “terrorist organiza- tion.”
The petition was submitted through the White House’s “We the People” project, states, “It is time for the Pentagon to be con- sistent in its actions – and just as they rightfully declared ISIS a terror group, they must de- clare Black Lives Matter a ter- ror group – on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety.”
The Black Lives Matter movement, known for holding anti-police brutality protests across the country, has been in full force since the execution style shooting deaths of two
Black men – Atlon Sterling and Philando Castile – in Louisiana and Minnesota, re- spectively.
The petition came on the heels of deadly officer-involved shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and after days of Black Lives Matter protests for
more police accountability.
On July 7, one day after the petition published online, seven law enforcement officers polic- ing a BLM demonstration in Dallas, Texas were shot and killed in a shower of sniper-like fire. And on Sunday, three more policemen were shot and killed
in Baton Rouge.
Black Lives Matter protest-
ers condemned the massacre in Dallas, and prominent mem- bers did the same after Sun- day's Baton Rouge shooting of police officers.
One public voice of the move- ment, DeRay McKesson, urged peace after news of the Louisiana deaths broke.
"I'm waiting for more infor- mation like everybody else," McKesson told the New York Times. "I have more questions than answers.”
COLUMBIA, S.C. ---- A fire department captain in South Carolina's capital has been dismissed for posting on social media that he would run over protesters if they were still blocking traffic when his shift ended.
CBS affiliate WLTX reports that Capt. Jimmy Morris was fired last Monday over Facebook posts about Black Lives Matter protesters.
Protesters closed an inter- section near the Statehouse and prompted the closing of a section of interstate late Sun- day. They were among the
Post made by Captain Jimmy Morris.
dozens of protests nationwide against police violence that came after Blacks were killed by police in Minnesota and Louisiana.
In one post, Morris said the "idiots" blocking traffic "better not be there when I get off work or there is gonna be some run over dumb a----."
Nearly 50 Years After Dr. King’s Speech:
#MoveYourMoney Movement Takes
Over 8,000 people in At- lanta have joined Solange Knowles and moved their money to a Black owned bank.
The #MoveYourMoney campaign has gained promi- nence and traction in the days since the heinous police shoot- ing deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
Many African-Americans frustrated by repeated police killings of unarmed Black men and the ringing lack of justice against those who perpetrate the acts are searching for ways to empower their community and fight back.
And as Martin Luther King Jr. once said, the best way to fight this system is to break its capitalist back.
In an excerpt from his fa- mous 1968 “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop” speech—his last before his assassination— King had this to say about in- vestment in ourselves:
Now the other thing we’ll have to do is this: Always an- chor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal ... we’ve got to
New depositers at the Black bank in Mobile, Alabama.
Hold Run Over BLM Protesters
strengthen Black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks down- town and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank.
We want a “bank-in” move- ment in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I’m not asking you something that we don’t do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and oth- ers will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leader- ship Conference. We are telling you to follow what we
are doing. Put your money there ... Now these are some practical things that we can do.
And to that end, nearly 50 years later, African Americans are starting to heed his word.
In just five days, 8,000 peo- ple submitted applications to join a historic black-owned bank, Citizens Trust Bank, in the city.
There are also reports of the same in cities like Chicago and others posted on social media in recent days.
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