Three police officers were killed and three were wounded in Baton Rouge, the site of a controversial shooting of a suspect two weeks ago. Since then, 10 policemen–in Dallas, Michigan, and now Baton Rouge–have been murdered. For the emotional toll this is taking on the nation’s police officers, see this.
From 3 police officers killed, 3 wounded in Baton Rouge; gunman dead – The Washington Post:
A lone gunman killed three law enforcement officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge on Sunday morning, less than two weeks after the death of an African American man at the hands of Baton Rouge police.
The shootings occurred when police responded to a 911 call that a man dressed in black and armed with what appeared to be an assault-style rifle was walking near a shopping plaza about a mile from police headquarters. The deaths shocked a nation already on edge over recent killings by police and the slayings of five police officers in Dallas by a lone gunman. The run of violence that began July 5 in Baton Rouge has now left 10 dead, including eight law enforcement officers, as well as two residents killed by police.
Two city police officers and one sheriff’s deputy were fatally wounded, and another sheriff’s deputy was critically injured, Col. Michael Edmonson, the superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, said at an afternoon news conference.
