Obama Slams Shooting In Louisiana Calls For ‘Calm’
MEP: US President Barack Obama condemned the “cowardly” shooting in the city of Baton Rouge in Louisiana demanding an end to such violence across the state, BBC News reported.
“It is so important that everyone … right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further,” Obama said.
The gunman, Gavin Long, an African-American who had served for five years in the Marines, was also killed.
The shooter 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.
In a video, posted on YouTube, Long said that should “anything happen” to him, he was “not affiliated” with any group.
“I’m affiliated with the spirit of justice, nothing more nothing less. I thought my own thoughts, I made my own decisions,” he said.
“We need to temper our words and open our hearts… all of us,” the president stressed.
