Sputnik.png “Police Purge” Underway in Baton Rouge: Three Officers Shot Dead Amid Protest Sputnik, Moscow, 17 July 2016 At least three officers have been shot in Baton Rouge only a week after the deadly attacks in Dallas that left five officers dead and a dozen others wounded as protests have soured into violence over the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of cops. Baton Rouge officials confirm that seven officers have been shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — 3 have been killed and the other 4 are in critical condition at this time. Initial reports indicating that the attacker has been killed by police have been confirmed by local KTLA Channel 5 News. The Mayor of East Baton Rouge cautioned that this is still an active shooter situation as there are some concerns that there is a second assailant still on the loose. The Mayor also said that they are still investigating the motive behind the attack. "Right now, we are trying to get our arms around everything," said Holden. "It's just been one thing after another." The attacks come one week after the FBI issued a Situational Information Report (SIR) warning cops of a credible threat of a "police purge" in Baton Rouge. The advisory was dated for July 8 to 10, but additional warnings have been issued by the FBI that radical activists may be looking to target police with deadly force. Alton Sterling Baton Rouge has been ground zero for protests against police brutality by the activist group Black Lives Matter in the wake of the killing of Alton Sterling at the hands of local police. A bystander videotaped two cops holding Sterling down on the ground before one officer discharged his weapon several times at point blank range. Less than 24-hours after the country was reeling from the unjust killing of Alton Sterling, a livestream video went viral on Facebook showing an innocent Philando Castile bleeding out after being shot by an officer while his girlfriend narrated the tape and his four year old daughter sat in the back seat of the car. Over the last week peaceful protesters with Black Lives Matter have been pummelled by police in militarized riot gear who arrested individuals simply for filming the protests causing renewed outrage across the country. New Black Panther Party The situation has begun to deteriorate as a group identifying itself as the New Black Panther Party has taken to the front lines of the protest with weapons in tow. The presence of the radical activists who have called for the use of force have greatly undermined public sentiment in favour of the cause of addressing police brutality with the social media punditry reverting to full-on racism in response to the attacks. The New Black Panther Party has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a black Nationalist hate group and is considered much more radical than its peaceful counterpart Black Lives Matter. From: http://sputniknews.com/news/20160717/1043164094/baton-rouge-alton-sterling-purge.html __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13816 (20160717) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d1e051%240fe2f540%242fa8dfc0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
