3 officers dead, 3 more injured in Baton Rouge
According to the Washington Post, 3 police officers were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and three more are injured.
Details about the shooting remained unclear by Sunday afternoon, and police did not immediately say whether they believe the officers were targeted or if they were injured during a law enforcement action. The shooting happened in a region still on edge after police fatally shot a man there, sparking heated protests that prompted a heavy law enforcement response that some have questioned as unnecessarily forceful.
The Post continues that this brings the total of officers killed this year to 30, up from 16 at the same time last year.
The incident continues and this is a live link to local news.
Category: Breaking News, Police
Heartbreaking. Rest in peace.
Why the hell are the liberals always wanting to change the behavior of cops? How about for once we ask “Why don’t we try to change the behavior of those always in trouble, breaking the law, and generally showing contempt for society’s laws…written or unwritten???”
It’s called RESPECT..some just think they are ENTITLED to disregard it and do as they damned well please.
They can thank obozo the a.h., sharpton, jackson, the fairy can and the news media for ALL of this, seems some necktie parties are in order!!!
Why do people who claim to not like authoritarianism and claim to love freedom always quick to defend the government excessive use of force against citizens?
1. American law enforcement kills more citizens than any other industrial democracy.
2. There are individual officers that have killed more citizen than entire democracies.
3. There is seldom accountability to officers despots cities paying out tens of millions of dollars per year in civil penalties awarded by juries who found the officers use of force unjustified.
4. It is easy to get away with killing someone as an officer due to the interpretation of precedent. However, they have no more right to kill someone that a private citizen has. Why then are citizens held so strictly accountable but officers are given so much latitude despite a pattern of abuse.
5. Law enforcement has among the highest percentage of sociopaths in their ranks than any other profession. Law enforcement has a higher percentage of sociopaths that prisons.
6. Government funded studies have proven that the problem is a rotten barrel and not just rotten apples.
7. Rotten apples are rarely held accountable.
If you cared about having a true representative democracy you would want the government to take more care in its use of force agains citizens and you would want more accountability for the deaths of citizens at the hands of agents of the government.
Agents of the executive branch by the way. A branch you seem to have zero respect for.
You come across as one sick puppy – an apologist for the murderers of police.
Lars, you dork, if you are going to make statements with no back up in the way of data, do NOT expect anyone to accept your assertions as anything but untutored, silly opinion.
Your statement #5, that Law enforcement has the highest percentage of sociopaths is not only bad grammar, it has no back up from you, and therefore, since you do not verify your statement, it is invalid. And do I know what I’m talking about? Why, yes. Yes, I do. I’m well-acquainted with my local PD because of that social moron in Florida, and I know that NOT ONE OF THEM IS A SOCIOPATH.
You retract that statement and shut off your ridiculous yapping. You could not be more full of pure bullshit if you were in a dairy barn.
If what you say is true, then how do they pass the mandatory mental examination required for law enforcement? Yeah, you didn’t think about that before calling all police sociopaths, did you?
Oh, and I should mention that I know a couple of guys who were turned down for police service due to sociopath tendencies and a couple for PTS.
Here we go again with none other than Comrade Poodle Dik, AKA the one and only Commissar spouting off to correct everyone. RE: your last sentence…full of shit as usual. YOU being the idiot I have little respect for. The last time you tried to take over this web site in a single day was the Wesley Miller article. Between 9:11 am and 1:09 am the following morning (two minutes short of 16 hours), you had posted 64 times on same subject. Yours amounted to just under 22% of all posts. Get a life Lars, and shut your yap. In spite of trying to leave the word “I” out of every sentence, your writing is still predictably boring.
To this day we have yet to see written “Lars’ Opinions Matter”.
Hopefully EVERY person who reads this will take a second look at your number FIVE above.
You are a hopeless turd Lars. The day will come when somebody shoves an enema up the ass and flushes you away with the rest of the shit.
Given your law enforcement experience, explain how peace officers aren’t held accountable for excessive use of force?
Yes there are indeed problems within the US law enforcement and judicial system, but to say that they (most) are held unaccountable is bs. Where I’m from we have probably the most conservative population in the US with the most liberal hug a thug, UC Berkeley, snackwells eating, Subaru driving, non shaving judiciary. A magical place where recidivism runs rampant and “corrections” isn’t correcting anything. A place where multiple felony convictions equals less than a month in prison. SB91 confirmed this because our legislators want more victims and sold their souls to big oil.
Simple rule of the job I respect people and their rights, their God given and constitutional rights. I’m not to judge if they are a shitbag or not. I gives a shit if they respect me, but if they break the law and make a victim they are held accountable.
So…. Let’s get rid of all local law enforcement all together, see how that works out or hell lets make federal police force and abolish the 10th amendment, What’s the worst that can happen.
Jonn, can’t we just block this noisemaker?
I see you’re off your meds again, Lars.
all I can do is read those words Loca and pity your ignorance
I’d guess one reason why many military and ex-military are highly supportive of LE is our past experiences, Lostcause.
Many of us have seen the result of war – where there IS little law or order. It’s anarchy, where whoever has a gun can do pretty much what they want. The only thing that prevents them from doing so is their own self-restraint.
Having seen in both Afghanistan and Iraq the result of absence of both law and order, I can say that IMO the result absolutely sucks. I cant speak for others here, but I certainly don’t ever want to see that happen here.
No rights are absolute. And individual’s rights legitimately can be limited when they begin to impact the rights of others. And society does indeed have the right to protect itself from those who would steal, rape, destroy, and murder innocents.
As a society, we do that through laws. Those laws are enforced by LE personnel, who are authorized by society to use force when necessary.
Such use of force by LE will never be perfect, as LE personnel are human and fallible. But if you have a good alternative, I’d like to hear it. Because the alternative – anarchy, with whoever is the strongest doing as they please – isn’t exactly an appealing alternative.
When will it stop? How many more LEO’s are killed before this is stopped?
According to Fox, 29 have been killed so far this year
God bless those that have failed in the line of duty, and their families.
amen
Either 28 or 29 have been shot and killed. 28 feloniously killed, 1 shot accidentally. The total number, which includes vehicular assault, illness, accidents, pursuits, heart attacks and struck by vehicle is 63, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.
Mayor said on FOX, “this was an ambush”.
Counting the minutes until this data network specialist is called an sniper, highly trained by the Marine Corp in counter insurgency warfare.
And Shep is giving Gov Jindahl (sp?) down the road, over using the phrase “All lives matter” because it is sooo offensive to some. According to Shep, those words are divisive.
OK, Shep. I’m a racist because I think that every life matters but those who say that only specific lives matter are not racist? Got it.
It’s a jabberwocky world out there. Some of us refuse to allow others to define us, especially when it is based upon ignorance and willful delusion.
It doesn’t take much for Shep to get his pink panties all wadded up.
As witnessed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when the USCG helicopter was rescuing people and setting them on a high Interstate overpass, to go get more, he had his camera man pan to the rescued and said that they were abandoned on the bridge with no one paying attention to them. But he didn’t offer to load any up in his news vehicle and take them off the bridge. He is a drama queen that squats to pee.
While I’m on my soap box, it’s time to piss off some more liberals. Black Lives Matter..Who said they didn’t? The lives of black thugs with long rap sheets who were killed in the act of a crime..they DON’T MATTER a damned bit to me. Fuck ’em, I’ll stand in line to piss on their graves. Will drink enough sweet tea to piss on the graves of all of them killed while committing crimes.
Yeh, all you mrkrs calling me a racist, the same goes for white thugs with long rap sheets killed while committing a crime. Fuck them too. More sweet tea, enough to piss a river.
Jarhead, you’re not racist. I’ll share a jug of sweet tea with you and let the piss on dirt bag, lowlife scumbag party begin.
Hell, I’ll bring a case of good beer. This deserves QUALITY urine. 🙂
I remember an outstanding column from Col. Jeff Cooper, in which he commented on another in which the author had mentioned that contrary to the “young life lost to society” it is more likely Crip A and Blood B facing off, the victim had a rap sheet that looked like a roll of toilet paper and was a pimple on the butt of society. It’s nice to say “all lives matter”, but once out from under the umbrella of PC – bluntly, some don’t. The tragedy here is not that someone occasionally gets killed by a cop with poor judgement, it is that daily, multiple times that amount are killed by their own.
F*ck you Shep – All lives matter.
If you don’t like it, you can kiss my a**. (On second thought, pound sand. I don’t want your lips anywhere close to my a**!)
Lets just impeach Obama. Who cares if he has even one day left in the White House? He deserves it just for the principle of it. Everyone knows he’s a huge hypocrite for coming out and claiming the cops were guilty before even knowing the facts.
Hold off until he buys everyone a beer first….
Impeach him hell! Just remove him from office, immediately. To impeach him could still leave him in power.
I went food shopping yesterday and generally (legally) carry a double-action-only 6 shot .380 with 90 gr. Fed. Hydra Shoks….a tried and proven self-defense round.
So, in view of all that’s happening, I decided to carry my Glock Mdl. 23, .40 S&W with 165gr. rounds of the same description….I think all here would likely agree….ample medicine for any bad guys.
Bring it, assholes!
I failed to state the obvious….my prayers and that of my family are with the families that lost loved ones…and as well for their brother officers.
Whenever I’m packing I have either my .356 Magnum or my M1911 locked and loaded with R.I.P. Rounds.
API – Did you design a new caliber, or did your keyboard do it? 🙂
I’m tired of reading about this shit. Enough is enough.
God Bless our men and women in blue and know, if presented with the opportunity, many of us have your backs…
#Blackliesmatter
It was a right wing extremist. Not a BLM activist.
And right wing extremists kill more cops than any other political activist group.
Are you retarded or just have brain damage?
Yes
+10
Where is your proof of that statement, asswipe? Was that just thrown out there off the top of your idiotic head, for the sole purpose of getting attention? Provide proof – REAL proof, stupid – or shut up and go sit in a corner.
His facebook account said he was BLM and he was in several BLM pictures. However, I guess that the white politicians know more about BLM than a black BLM member. It’s like how the Christian politicians seem to know more about Islam than the radical Muslims terrorists.
I think your statement needs to be retracted Lostcause (what an appropriate moniker for someone wandering in the left branch woods). Turns out he wasn’t a right wing extremist after all (which I believe was well known before you made your ridiculous comment.
Hey, retard. The guy was a Nation Of Islam adherent and hated white people. Apparently people of any color other than black. He also hated cops. Just because he was a Vet doesn’t make him right wing and for your information more people have been killed by these type of attacks by men who were Democrats.
Unless you count Nation of Islam as a right wing group.
Lars, under the Lostcause name you were actually doing pretty good at being rational and trying to be a counterpoint. How quickly you fall back on old habits.
Oh my gosh! Was he a self-loathing homophobe too? I have it on good authority that it is common.
//How in THE FUCK you were even in Intel continues to mystify me.
And you know these facts … how?
I swear Lars, if brains were gunpowder you couldn’t even blow your feckin’ nose
The JEF will be talking to the nation in 30… another “teachable moment” for flyover country.
Screw him and his minions…
Can pretty much guarantee that, based upon his past totally inappropriate remarks, that I will be turning the channel when this local pressers is concluded.
My prayers and those of my family and friends go out to the Baton Rouge community. We continue our prayers for the Dallas PD and every other law enforcement agency now on high alert.
Ummm, “JEF”?
Go over to Ace of Spades (the other “Smart Military Blog”), it’s used quite of bit to describe the POTUS’ physical appearance
Google is failing me. Can anyone expand “JEF”?
Jug Eared Fucker
What oBaMa should say: “Here I am again addressing the American people regarding another act of mindless violence by someone with a perceived grievance against the police. A specific police officer? No, all and any police officers. In Dallas, it was white police officers. We have been seeing people carrying signs labeling police as pigs and suggesting that they be shot. Clearly, some people are acting on that horrible and vicious advice. It must stop. It must stop now. I am calling for all good people to notify police if you have reason to believe that someone you know is planning a violent act against police. You may be saving lives if you do so. Maybe a friend has shared with you that he hates police, that he’s going to do something that you believe may be a crime. Maybe he acquired a gun recently or asked you or someone you know about acquiring one. Be an active part in stopping this violence. Use your heads. Let your intellect control, not your emotions. If you do that and look at what’s happened with the cases that have prompted much violence, you’ll have a change of heart. Take the case of Trayvon Martin. A jury found that his death was justified, that he had attacked another person and that Martin was killed in self defense. You may not have agreed with that outcome but you did not have the facts the judge and jury had before them. Let’s look at the Illinois case where a police officer reportedly executed a young man for no apparent reason. In response to those reports, riots erupted and businesses, precious to the community they served, were looted and burned. Forensics established that the early reports were altogether wrong, that the man shot had physically attacked the police officer while the officer was inside his patrol car. In other words, the officer’s report was true and yet he was vilified and his attacker portrayed a to be a hero. I’m not done. In Baltimore, a man named Freddie Gray died after he was arrested and was… Read more »
As God in my judge….over 20 years in law enforcement (I was a street cop) I never witnessed a prisoner beating. NEVER! Did we occasionally have to use the “force necessary to effect a lawful arrest, per the NYS Penal Law?” You’re damn right we did – The Leo’s I worked with were smarter than that and good people!
Who in the hell wants to go to court to perjure themselves over some dickhead? Certainly, not me or the great guys I worked with.
When the POTUS attends a memorial for Five Police Officers shot and killed in cold blood and talks about himself and about the history of racism in this country, it can be seen as a tacit stamp of approval of what happened. He identifes with the criminal, not the good guys. Fuck him.
You’re right. He’s being the gasoline and the match. And he knows it, too.
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature for that a**clown.
He’s about 30 minutes late…what else is new for him.
He’s gonna get all angry on us gun lovers… say bad things to us about being bitter clingers and all other crap.
Yep. And when they catch the POS they’ll find out the he didn’t buy the weapon legally.
RIP
Here it comes the guy was a VET, STANDBY….
Being reported he was a former Marine.
Well.
Many of us are tiring of your racist crap, C. Long. If you’re not saying something unpleasant about people of color, then you are launching into another tirade against members of the LGBT community. You really need to take your vile, vitriolic message elsewhere, C. Long. The thing is, what with visitors from Daily Koz showing up here, well, let’s just say that your racist, homophobic messages are painting this blog in a poor light.
^^^WORD^^^
STFU sChLONG…
I’ve put CLong on a short chain.
When someone purposefully concocts or distorts fact to make a point that he wishes to make, it’s reprehensible on several levels. Clong did so a few times with respect to Veterans and our purported propensity for criminality. When pressed to provide some authority for his accusations, delivered by him as fact, he was silent. It wasn’t an oversight or error. He made bald assertions and, I suppose, expected no challenge or rebuttal. In calling him a racist and a homophobe, I took a page from his book. It’s easy to understand the absolute need for some evidence when the matter is put on an individual basis, isn’t it Clong? Well, knucklehead, it applies as well to groups, whether you are referring to Veterans and crime or racists and homophobes at this blog.
Shooter’s last name was “Long”.
Clong’s last name is “Long”.
Next, I think we should determine if Clong weighs more than a duck!
Jonn, I didn’t mean to cause any shit. I was just saying standby for media to start spinning the Vet crap.
You didn’t start anything. Media stories that I reviewed point out that military souces say he was marine and then IMMEDIATELY follow that up by saying that the Dallas shooter was in the Army. Those are safe places for the media to go. It’s the irrelevant sparkle that explain nothing of why the two did what they did. Nothing at all. As for Clong, if it wasn’t you he responded to regarding the reported Veteran status of today’s shooter, it would have been someone else.
You didn’t start anything. He’s been on a short leash since yesterday, he just hasn’t commented lately. I went back and read some of his comments after reading some complaints and he really was out of line.
Typical.
Be thankful and don’t be a dick.
Being right doesn’t equal being a dick. Not being able to tolerate opinions and pulling the online version of taking your ball and going home does.
Like I said, don’t be a dick. I could give a tiny rat’s ass about your opinion. When you start disparaging veterans only to piss people off (with no supporting evidence, I might add), you get the boot here. We take enough shit from you people out in the real world, we don’t need to take it in our own forum. If I was really worried about you expressing your opinion and shaking my belief system, you would have been gone. Now, be grateful, because I’m already starting to regret that I let you stay.
I said “be grateful”.
No! It is called being voted off the island for being a dick!
OUT!
Dude, stop.
There’s being wrong, and then there’s being stubbornly wrong – as if saying over and over again, “I’m right!” will win arguments.
Take Jonn’s advice and chill.
Typical of what? A Veteran with a sense of decency about him? One who doesn’t stand idle when some asshole disparages Veterans and offers nothing of value to the many discussions here? Is that what’s typical, clong?
C. Long = 0.
I was thinking “chocolate starfish/blue falcon” was more descriptive of a someone who (1) claims to be vet but (2) who disparages other vets without cause or justification.
But I guess zero works too.
Its my new equation.
It explains the end sum of everything C. Long.
I should get a Nobel for it. Others have received them for a lot less….
A hell of a lot less. One example spoke today, I understand.
HEY CLONG, If I knew a little bit more about you’, I’d send you a toaster and a hair dryer for you to play with while you’re in the bathtub, I’d even include a non-GFA extension cord!!
*OOPS, “non-GFI extension cord.”
Okay, the 7 or so minutes of platitudes and random thoughts by oBaMa are now part of the record. No appeal to black madmen to look at facts. No appeal to black madmen to stop targeting police officers. No appeal for normal black people to help stamp-out this insanity. It’s just the hold hands, show the world we want to buy them a Coke bullshit. I gotta go puke now.
They just showed some black woman on CNN making a plea form LA to stop the violence…I believe shot was related to the guy that was shot 2 weeks ago..
Sorry “from”
She was his Aunt.
Thank brother I saw it and thought she was legit in her plea….
There are more black people who are losing relatives to this madness showing up and asking for it to stop. That includes teenagers who lost a sister or cousin or brother or parent/grandparent because some jackass with a hair up his ass couldn’t control his own behavior.
I’m not seeing the complaints about cops in Chicago as much as I’m seeing neighborhood efforts to put an end to random and driveby shootings. An example is two teenage boys talking in an alley, someone pulls into the alley, gets out of a car and shoots both of them. One is dead. No idea who the shooter is.
So let’s focus on stopping the acts, which is something you can’t put in a shopping bag or hold in your hands.
It’s not going to stop unless PEOPLE make it stop.
CBS: According to a military source, Long left the Marines in 2010 with an honorable discharge. His final Marine rank was E-5 (sergeant).
I say, so what …
He is a cop killer!
Absodamtively! He didn’t learn to hate cops in the Corps. Somebody else taught him that.
Wonder who taught him that. How many presidential speeches did he listen to?
I spoke to my mother over the weekend. She was a graduate of Washington HS in LA back in the 60’s.
She told me this is as bad as the lead up to the Watts riots in 1965. Can’t argue with her. And if anyone is curious, I can give you a tour of our old neighborhood. About a half mile from Florence and Normandie.
More than a few of us who lived through the mess of the 60’s have been saying similar things for a while now. The signs have been here, escalating. Might explain why so many are furious with those who should be working to deescalate things instead fomenting discontent.
Disgusting.
It’s battlefield prep for the elections this year.
There’s Cleveland first. That’s tomorrow. Of all the places the Repubs had to choose to convene, they select a predominantly black, crime-infested city. “Though the city and surrounding Cuyahoga County are overwhelmingly Democratic, Republicans see opportunities to build goodwill and grow their constituency.” (From 2015 story regarding the site selection.) Yeah, that will work. What they will most likely grow is a run on bulletproof vests by those attending the convention.
And it’s the same fucking player stirring the shit this time as the last time. Jackson, Sharpton, Farrikan, and a few new ones thrown in for good measure.
They’ve made a living on the blood of others for generations. Hope they rot in hell very soon.
They’ve spent their adult lives making dump truck loads of money via extortion and festering the same “problems” they claim to want solutions to. They’re not part of a solution, THEY’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
And word is now 4 officers are gone.
RIP.
Damn.
http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/gavin-long-kansas-city-missouri-baton-rouge-police-officers-ambush-shot-shooting-shooter-gunman-suspect-name-identified-age-photos/
Former Marine Sgt and Univ Alabama dropout. Divorced from his wife.
RIP Officers….Y’all didn’t deserve this.
Why do they say he was a retired marine? Did he serve 20? He ain’t old enough for that.
What was his MOS?
He was a commo geek.
“Long was a data network specialist in the Marines.”
I read that as a network geek. does data network specialist mean commo these days?
Reuters tells me that he was highly decorated with awards including the Good Conduct Medal.
I can make stuff up, too. I can draw ridiculous conclusions and make absurd connections. I can do all of the things at least one other person does when he comes here and, like him, I can do it just because I can and just to kick up some dust.
And you do it so well. One could draw some erroneous conclusions from your expertise.
Carry on. (OWB takes cover.)
I don’t know whether I’ve just been insulted or complimented, OWB. Maybe I was complisulted or insulmented.
😉
OWB, your work here is done.
Fox just reported that a reporter from the affiliate in KC tried to visit the last known address of the perp… and were greeted by an individual with a weapon! Perp was also a big fan of anti-government groups.
More info on the perp from the DC:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/17/baton-rouge-shooter-gavin-eugene-long-was-nation-of-islam-member-railed-against-crackers-on-youtube-channel-video/
Yeah, Drudge posted this about 20 mins ago! Good piece if you want to see how the demented think.
I have drawn some parallels already.
Read this story!
Yep. Bigoted right-winger. Totally legit.
Lostcause called it.
{/sarc}
Dr. King is turning over in his grave.
But But But, Clong already said he was a right wing extremist. That must be true, right? Because it was the first thing someone said about his ideology.
And lostcause/L.Taylor stated the same thing…
Whoever it was said this is the same agitation that led to the Watts riots and Chicago riots in the 1960s is right.
Someone with money is stirring the pot.
If it’s Soros, I hope it comes back to haunt him.
But whatever is going on behind the scenes, I can see on the evening news that other people are working just as hard to avoid those clashes. It is obvious that cops are being targeted now and should be given more – I don’t know – SOMETHING that will take the bullseyes off their backs.
We do NOT need a flashback to 1968!
Okay?
This didn’t just start — it’s been going on for years now. And this serpent has many heads.
Agreed. But at some point, the agitation peaks (which I think started in Ferguson, MO) and dies away.
I wonder how many pols are already planning their next tap dance on the bodies of those killed for their own political gain? FUCK THEM and fuck liberals, FUCK liberalism as well! Liberalism is a disease, it’s also social and spiritual suicide.
They were killed by a right wing extremist.
Not according to the perp’s own Youtube Channel,https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV3kJdRXOJcbkKvRiRKfXkA/videos
How dare you post something that negates his discussion points! Next thing you’ll be posting responses to the bullshit about the democratic party being wonderful and happy and always interested in the well-being of the people first!
“always interested in the well-being of themselves first!”
Fixed that for ya.
Yeah… next you’ll be saying that Obama has not received 400% more death threats than any other president; thus negating the assertion that WE are ALL racists!
And you know this … how?
He was about as right wing as Bernie Sanders, shit-for-brains!
The Dems are being dissed on this. They are scratching and clawing, trying to coddle, to be understanding. Other Dems are silent, afraid to say something they might actually mean because it isn’t in line with the DNC’s and Wide Load’s open embrace of BlackLiveMatter. Wide Load says we–that’s the White we–need to try harder, to empathize. And that has earned her the equivalent of “Fuck off, Bitch!” by both BlackLivesMatter and thinking white people who don’t drive a Prius or a Subaru.
the closest she’s come to wearing a black person’s shoes is trying on a pair at Dolce and Gabbana that were already tried on by a black woman.
She doesn’t mean “herself”, she means all the rest of us. She’s one of the pigs that only expects us lowly peasants to have respect for others and attend to laws.
Will our beloved Old Glory ever again be flown at other than the half staff position?
It seems like it’s just one mass murder after another.
When’s the next one?
Tomorrow?
Tonight?
I just commented to a friend of mine today that we might as well just go ahead and cut all of the flagpoles in half. It will save us time in the long run.
The shooter was a right wing sovereign citizen.
Lars, is that you?
Of course it is. He can’t accept the mere hint of an idea that the shooter could possibly aligned with an extremist leftist movement.
He goes mouth + foot = insert one in the other.
No Larsie-boi, dude was so far around the bend you couldn’t see him from either side.
And you know this … how?
Get your head out of your arse. He was a sovereign citizen, but claimed to be part of the Washita Nation, whatever that is.
A quick check reveals the full name is the “Washitaw Moorish Nation.” Yep. Totes right wing. Jackass.
Here is the nut cases Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV3kJdRXOJcbkKvRiRKfXkA/videos
OIF…regret to say that has been taken down.
I knew this guy…wasn’t drinking buddies with him or anything but we were both stationed in Camp Courtney in Okinawa around the same time. I used to see him at field day formations. I never took him as somebody who was go off the deep end like this. Tragic.
RIP LEOs
The man believed to have killed three police officers and wounding three more in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been identified as a Marine Iraq War veteran.
Gavin E. Long, a former Marine sergeant who served in the Corps from 2005 until 2010, was killed at the scene Sunday morning, less than a mile from police headquarters. The shootings began at a gas station just before 9 a.m. after Baton Rouge police answered a report of a man with an assault rifle and were met by gunfire.
Long, a data network specialist who deployed to Iraq from June 2008 to January 2009, is believed to be the only person who fired at officers, but authorities said they were unsure whether he had some kind of help.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2016/07/17/accused-baton-rogue-shooter-marine-veteran/87232380/
Obviously he couldn’t have had PTSD. Of course the vet bashing has begun. And they wonder why vets are upset when they keep saying such asinine shit about vets in the media.
Hitting this post on the fly, I have not read the comments. I may be redundant but this is my take:
This is a great illustration of just how screwed up the media is:
“Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were killed Sunday after a former Marine dressed in black and carrying extra ammunition opened fire on them outside a gas station.
Three other officers were wounded in the ambush, one critically. Police said the gunman was killed at the scene.
The shooter was identified as Gavin Long, of Kansas City, who turned 29 on Sunday. Long, who was black, served in the Marines from 2005 to 2010, reaching the rank of sergeant. He deployed to Iraq from June 2008 to June 2009, according to military records.
While in the military, Long was awarded several medals, including one for good conduct, and received an honorable discharge. His occupational expertise was listed as “data network specialist.””
This is written to suggest that the turd did this because he had been in the Marines. Bull shit! Was it because he had “assault weapon knowledge”? Bull shit, he had computer knowledge. Was it because he had PTSD? Bullshit. If he did, he got it trying to erase a virus from a program.
He was a person who thought that doing evil would make him famous. No more, no less. Just one more simple minded asshole, grandstanding, doing evil onto good people.
Eh I don’t know about that. During that time Marines of different jobs were sent as provisional riflemen to Iraq and received additional weapons training besides what they learn at infantry school. Marines are a bit different from the rest of the branches in how they treat non-infantry personnel. That said, yes, the media associating his service with this is BS.
People deep end violently for most every reason imaginable and, sometimes, for reasons no one can imagine. Much more often than not, the criminal act that puts them on page one is a solitary one. Occasionally, a Ted Kaczynski crops up and works his evil over a course of years. What do they all have in common? Aside from being unhinged, they either need to satisfy some twisted impulse or they are motivated by some perverted need for vengeance. Among the relatively few of these sick, twisted pukes are those who had some military experience. When that is true, it is immediately seized upon by media and included in every, or nearly every, mention of the bastard. Why? No one ever explains why. If one of these guys ever parachutes into a football stadium and detonates a bomb attached to his body and we later learn his only jump training was courtesy of the Army, okay, I can see the jump aspect being connected to his military training. Ditto, a tank driver who steals a tank and runs it murderously through a town or a Rucker grad who slams a bird intentionally into a crowd. In these instances, there is a connection between their MOS and the medium chosen for their deadly deed. When was the last time such a connection was made by media?….I’ll wait.…. When media toss out that some murderous devil was in the military, no connection is made. That he was in the military is enough, as if, by miraculous implication, readers and viewers see and comprehend the connection. In BCT, I was taught many things. I had never thrown a grenade before and I was taught how to do that properly. I had never heard of general orders but I was taught them. I was taught some fundamentals of emergency medical treatment, including treating someone for shock, stopping a sucking chest wound, applying tourniquets, stabilizing a broken limb, and being honest with the wounded soldier to allow him the opportunity to say a prayer or whatever he wished. I could go on, as can you.… Read more »
Nixon wants us to apologize to him. After all, his worst bit of da stoopid was to erase 18 minutes of tape (or forget to turn on the microphone),
Wow.
Check out this video where Sheriff Clarke has a “heated” discussion with CNN Reporter Don Lemon:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/wow-watch-sheriff-clarke-destroy-don-lemon-blacklivesmatter-violence-video/
Oh, the Sheriff is the Wall of Reality and the reporter has crashed against it, but good!
I watched that CNN clip. That reporter realized in the first fifteen seconds or so of the Sheriff’s statements that this was going to go very badly for him, and the only way he would be able to salvage anything in the interview would be to try and shout down the Sheriff. Which, of course, didn’t happen. I love how the Mr. Lemon kept trying to push the liberal agenda items in the face of hard, cold facts provided by Sheriff Clarke, and the Sheriff kept hammering him with things Mr. Lemon would rather not have had said. Bravo, Sheriff Clarke! Show the media what’s REALLY happening.
Ironically enough, Sheriff Clarke is a registered Democrat. 😉
This…on a Google News update this morning:
10:50 a.m.
The man who killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge declared last year that he was changing his name from Gavin Eugene Long to Cosmo Setepenra.
Long described his new name in a document he filed in May 2015 with the Recorder of Deeds Office in Jackson County, Missouri. The filing also declared membership in a black separatist group that considers itself beyond the reach of state and federal laws.
County spokesoman Brenda Hill says he never followed through in court to make the name change official.
Long cited common law, saying that “an emancipated person has the right to change his or her name without legal formality.”
He said he was a member of the Washitaw Nation. The Southern Poverty Law Center says this group uses pseudo-legal language and ideologies similar to that of hard-line American white supremacists
‘Cosmo’? That’s an Italian name, isn’t it?
Dave Hardin….betcha we’re both thinking Cosmo and the Counts. Floating down the Ohio shit faced to the max.
I hope I’m still somewhat on subject with this thread, the FOURTH Police Officer charged in the Freddie Gray fiasco has been found NOT GUILTY. That Prosecutor in 0 – 4 now, what a Bernathian excuse of a Prosecuting Attorney!