WITH Republicans convening in Cleveland to nominate their candidate for president today and police preparing for violent protests in the streets, America is reeling from its second shooting of police officers in two weeks. On July 17th, ten days after five officers were gunned down by a former Army reservist in Dallas, Texas, three policemen were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by a retired Marine. These attacks were seemingly inspired by widely protested deaths of black men at the hands of police officers, including incidents earlier this month in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
The man who shot the police in Baton Rouge was Gavin Long, a Missourian who billed himself on Twitter as a “freedom strategist” and “mental game coach” with an “Ethiopian bloodline”, under the handle of “Convos with Cosmo”. Mr Long chose to mark his 29th birthday by driving to the Bayou state, dressing in black and using an AR-15 assault rifle to kill police officers—in apparent retaliation for the killing of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old man who had been shot at point-blank range by officers on July 5th. The searing smartphone footage...Continue reading
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