3 officers killed; 3 injured in Baton Rouge
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CNN ^
| 17 Jul 16 | Carma Hassan and Vivian Kuo
(CNN) — LATEST UPDATE -- One suspect is dead, and two others may be at large in the Baton Rouge shooting, the East Baton Rouge sheriff's office said. -- Six law enforcement officers were shot -- three are dead and three others are injured, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola
told CNN. -- No motive has been identified at this time. FULL STORY Three officers were killed and three others wounded in a shooting in Baton Rouge that officials think were carried out by multiple gunmen. Police received a call of "suspicious person walking down Airline Highway with...
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Donald Trump expected in Baton Rouge Friday
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WBRZ-TV ^
| December 6, 2016 | Trey Schmaltz
BATON ROUGE – President-elect Donald Trump is expected in Baton Rouge Friday afternoon, multiple sources told WBRZ Tuesday. Sources spoke on condition of anonymity as the event is still being planned. Two
sources with knowledge of a planned visit said staff were trying to find a venue. Before the election, Trump's schedule was regularly updated with seemingly spur-of-the-moment rallies that were heavily attended. Events are known to attract thousands of people. At a campaign event in Baton Rouge in early 2016, more than 10,000 filled the River Center. A visit Friday may require space for more than the number of...
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D. Baton Rouge: Man in same-sex “marriage” denied Communion at funeral
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WDTPRS ^
| 7/19/15 | Fr John Zuhlsdorf
In The Advocate (a homosexual publication) there is an article which serves up examples of common errors and sloppy thinking about reception of the Eucharist.Two points. The
article is manipulative, but that is to be expected from something called “The Advocate”. You can be sure that the article doesn’t tell us everything.So, keeping in mind that we are flying partially blind… my emphases and comments. [NOT] Married gay man describes denial of communion at mother’s funeral Mass [Obergefell v. Hodges changes nothing regarding the Church’s understanding of marriage. Two men can’t be married.]Tim Ardillo said he was standing next to...
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Power knocked out throughout much of Baton Rouge CBD, could take hours to restore
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Greater Baton Rouge Business Report ^
| Oct 19, 2018 | ANNIE OURSO LANDRY, STEPHANIE RIEGEL
Much of downtown Baton Rouge lost power during the lunch hour and Entergy officials say the outage could last hours. The
heart of the Central Business District lost power around 12:40 p.m., says Entergy spokesman David Freese, after a “non-Entergy contractor” damaged an underground cable. Entergy is currently assessing the damage, which will take hours to repair, says Freese, cautioning it’s impossible to provide an accurate restoration time until Though City Hall is impacted, Chief Administrative Officer Darryl Gissel says the city-parish government building is operating on backup generators and will remain open. City-parish officials urge caution traveling in the...
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The Latest: Police Say 101 People Arrested in Baton Rouge
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ABC News ^
| July 10, 2016 | Associated Presstitutes
Authorities in Baton Rouge say more than 100 people were jailed in connection with the Black Lives Matter protests held in the Lousiana city over the weekend. Spokeswoman
Casey Rayborn Hicks of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office told The Associated Press on Sunday that 101 people were being held in the parish jail in connection with the protests. No information was immediately available on what charges they faced or whether some people were later released. Among those arrested was DeRay Mckesson, who rose to prominence with the Black Lives Matter movement after the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown...
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Alton Sterling Reached for a Gun, Baton Rouge Detective Says
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pjmedia.com ^
| 7/13/2016 | Walter Hudson
Officers were justified in their shooting of Alton Sterling during a confrontation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, according to a police report on the incident. That
shooting resulted in Sterling's death, which alongside the police-involved shooting of Philando Castile near St. Paul, Minnesota, triggered nationwide protests. From CNN: In a search warrant affidavit seeking surveillance video from the store, [where police responded to a call about a man threatening another man with a gun,] Detective R. Cook wrote that the Baton Rouge officers deployed their Tasers after Sterling did not comply with their orders. "While the officers were attempting to subdue...
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Baton Rouge Interstate 10 widening assessment delayed
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Greater Baton Rouge Business Report ^
| December 26, 2018 | Stephanie Riegel
Though a final draft of the environmental assessment report detailing the proposed Interstate 10 widening through Baton Rouge was originally scheduled to be presented at a public hearing this month, state officials now say it will likely be February before the report is complete. There’s
no particular reason why consultants preparing the report are running behind, according to Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson. “It’s just that engineering is a much slower process than the public or I, for that matter, would like it to be,” he says. “They’re gathering some additional data as they try to...
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2 Louisiana lawmakers get into fistfight at Baton Rouge bar: report
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nola.com ^
| 5/16/18 | Greg LaRose
Two Louisiana lawmakers got into a fistfight at a Baton Rouge bar, evidently over a disputed bill in the Legislature, Greg Hilburn with the USA Today Network reports. State
Rep. Stuart Bishop, R-Lafayette, and Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, were involved in a dispute on the House floor Tuesday (May 15) and squared off later that night at the River Room on Laurel Street. Bishop said Chabert "punched me several times" but he didn't throw any punches back. Chabert said he "loved Stuart like a brother" and regretted the incident. Police were called to the bar, but Bishop and Chabert had...
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Connections Between Dallas and Baton Rouge Shooters (vanity)
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VANITY
1. Both were in Dallas at the time of the shooting. July
7, 2016. Here's a video of Gavin "Cosmo" Long indicating he was in Dallas. It appears to be taken in a hotel room. He refers to "Europeans" as "devils" and the futility of non-violent protesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG5b4tCv 2. The Dallas shooter said he was "not affiliated" with any group. Cosmo posted a video he was "not affiliated": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEIg4jc6 If he claimed to be part of a group, it would open the door to further investigation and conspiracy charges. 3. Cosmo lived in Houston. Micah X, the Dallas shooter, was...
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Ill patient prompts evacuation, quarantine (Baton Rouge)
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WBRZ ^
| 10-3-2014 | Trey Schmaltz, Ryan Naquin
A fire station was quarantined and a police station evacuated Friday evening after a man claiming to be from Africa showed up at the Baton Rouge Police precinct on Highland Road ill. Police
said, given the current situation with Ebola across the globe and the events in Texas, they decided to take precautionary measures. The measures included calling medical responders, HAZMAT and evacuating the police station between downtown and LSU. Officers said they were concerned because the man was obviously ill, a spokesperson said. The fire station near the North Gates of LSU was closed Friday night and fire fighters...
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Baton Rouge Latest Battle In Obama's War On Cops
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American Thinker ^
| July 19, 2016 | Daniel John Sobieski
Before someone says President Obama did no such thing and that Baton Rouge, like Dallas, cannot be laid at his doorstep, let us consider his own statement that “words have consequences”. From
Ferguson to Baltimore and beyond President Obama’s words have been the equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre. He has encouraged a false narrative of racist cops and racist police departments whose officers are guilty until proven innocent, or buried, whichever comes first. If there is a Pearl Harbor in this war on cops, it was Ferguson, Missouri, where President Obama’s Justice Department sent 40 FBI agents...
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DeRay Mckesson arrested during Baton Rouge protest
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Baltimore Sun ^
| July 10, 2016 | Kevin Rector
DeRay Mckesson, the prominent civil rights activist who last month was named interim chief human capital officer for Baltimore's public school system after an unsuccessful mayoral bid, was among more than 100 people arrested in Baton Rouge amid nationwide protests against police killings late Saturday and early Sunday. In a widely-circulated image
of his arrest, the Baltimore native is seen on one knee, staring directly ahead of him wearing a T-shirt reading "#StayWoke" — a Twitter hashtag used to urge awareness of the political, social and cultural realities facing minority communities in America. Mckesson turned 31 on Saturday; he was...
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Baton Rouge, Dallas police slayings are everyone's problem
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San Jose Mercury ^
| 07/18/2016
First in Dallas and now in Baton Rouge, lone gunmen armed with AR-15 semi-automatic military-style weapons have killed police officers -- eight in all -- and wounded nearly a dozen others, some critically. Police
in both places say the killings were ambushes. In both cases the gunmen were African-American military veterans and were eventually killed by police in standoffs. What these shooters were not, it appears, in any way affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Former Marine kills 3 Baton Rouge officers, wounds 3 others
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Associated Press ^
| July 17, 2016 | Mike Kunzelman and Linda Deslatte
A former Marine dressed in black and carrying extra ammunition shot and killed three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was fatally shot by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated nationwide. Three
other officers were wounded, one critically. Police said the gunman was killed at the scene. The shooting less than a mile from police headquarters added to the tensions across the country between the black community and police. Just days earlier, one of the slain officers had posted an emotional Facebook message about the challenges of...
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Oregon shooter targeted Christians, railed against ‘organized religion’
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Canada Free Press ^
| 10/02/15 | Dan Calabrese
Meanwhile, Obama yammers about gun control as usual Report: Oregon shooter targeted Christians, railed against ‘organized religion’ Details are still emerging, and it’s impossible to make absolute statements at this point. But
based on the statements of at least one eyewitness and some of the investigators on the case, Oregon shooter Christopher Harper Mercer not only railed against “organized religion” in his writings, but demanded that his victims state their religions before he opened fire.
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Man questioned about 2 deadly Baton Rouge shootings is freed from jail
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nola.com ^
| 9/18/17
A 23-year-old white man whom police call a "person of interest" in the fatal shootings of two black men in Baton Rouge has been released from jail after his arrest on drug charges. Baton
Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola, a department spokesman, said Monday that Kenneth Gleason "has not been cleared" and remains a "person of interest" in the investigation of the killings.
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Woman helps prevent man from beating Baton Rouge officer
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NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^
| 2/19/17 | Beau Evans, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
A woman came to the rescue of a Baton Rouge Police officer who was attacked by a 28-year-old man he was trying to handcuff following a traffic stop Sunday morning (Feb. 19), police said. Vickie
Williams-Tillman, 56, leapt on the man's back and helped prevent him from continuing to hit the officer with his own baton, the Baton Rouge Police Department said in a Facebook post thanking her for her efforts. According to WBRZ, the officer initially found Thomas Bennet, 28, asleep in a car parked on Harry Drive in Baton Rouge. Syringes and a bag of cocaine were in...
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Baton Rouge Police car torched by Molotov cocktail overnight
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wbrz.com ^
BATON ROUGE - A city police car was damaged after it was set on fire overnight. The
unit was parked at a repair shop near the corner of Tom Drive at Airline when it was set ablaze around 2 a.m. Friday. Hours later, police said a Molotov cocktail was set off, causing the vehicle to burn up. The fire was about two miles from the Triple S store where Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police Tuesday and sparked week-long protests in Baton Rouge and other cities.
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Marco Rubio quietly cancels Baton Rouge rally
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WBRZ-TV ^
| March 2, 2016 | Kevin Dupuy
BATON ROUGE - After a poor showing in the Super Tuesday primaries, Marco Rubio quietly canceled his plans for a Baton Rouge event scheduled for Friday. Individuals who signed up for tickets to see Rubio received an email Wednesday that the event was canceled. "In
order to use Marco's time as efficiently as possible before Saturday's contests, Marco will not be making a stop in Louisiana Friday night," the email read. Rubio originally announced he would visit the capital city on Feb. 29. The event was planned for 5:45 p.m. at North Boulevard Town Square. The Rubio campaign's Eventbrite page...
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31 arrested overnight at protest in Baton Rouge: State Police
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NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^
| 7/9/16 | Emily Lane, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
<p>Thirty-one people were arrested Friday night (July 8) and early Saturday during a protest outside Baton Rouge police headquarters, Louisiana State Police said. The
crowd protested what they believed to be police brutality demonstrated by this week's fatal shooting of Alton Sterling by a Baton Rouge officer.</p>
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