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“You gotta fight back – that’s the only way a bully knows to quit,” Long said in one of his videos, using the pseudonym of “Cosmos.”
Under this user name, Long made videos to talk about police killing of black men, including the recent death of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, who was shot by two white officers in Baton Rouge.
Long tried to change his name to Cosmo Ausar Seteprenra and declared his loyalty to Washitaw, conceived of as a sovereign black nation within the boundaries of the United States, the Kansas City Star newspaper reported.
In the videos, the black shooter also praised Malcolm X, a symbol of the more radical civil rights movement in the 1960s and member of the Nation of Islam.
Police have not yet commented on the videos or indicated whether Long identified with black pride groups or followed the “Black Power” ideology.
Louisiana State Police superintendent Mike Edmonson told reporters Monday that Long was “definitely” seeking to target police officers.
Edmonson, however, did not say whether the attack could be linked to protests over police violence against blacks.
On Sunday morning, three police officers were gunned down and three others wounded in Baton Rouge when they responded to a call of shots fired and were attacked by Long.
The names of the wounded officers have not yet been released. EFE
Hillary Clinton Talks About Reform to Stop the Madness
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised Monday that if elected to the White House, she will promote reforms so that African Americans no longer fear the police, but also said she will make sure that anyone who attacks law enforcement officers is brought to justice.
“This madness has to stop,” Clinton said about the death Sunday of three police officers at the hands of an ex-marine in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10 days after another five policemen lost their lives in a shooting in Dallas.
Clinton gave a speech at the annual NAACP Convention and dedicated her first words to condemning the murders of police officers at Baton Rouge on Sunday and to insist that the country has some “difficult, painful, essential work ahead of us to repair the bonds between our police and communities.”
Killing a police officer is a “terrible crime”…and “as president I will bring the full weight of the law to bear in making sure those who kill police officers are brought to justice. There can be no justification. No looking the other way,” she told the NAACP gathering in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Though she said that guaranteeing police safety will be her priority as president, she acknowledged that many black Americans, like her audience at the convention, are also frustrated by the cases of African Americans being slain by law enforcement.
“Many African-Americans fear the police,” the ex-secretary of state said, but added that “we have to make it right. That means end-to-end reform in our criminal justice system, not half measures, but a full commitment with real follow-through.”
Clinton said there is “clear evidence” that blacks die at the hands of police much more often than members of other groups, and are likely to be “sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.”
“Something is profoundly wrong. We can’t ignore that, we can’t wish it away,” Clinton said.
“So I pledge to do you I will start taking action on day one and every day after that until we get this done,” she said.
Clinton also criticized her presumptive Republican rival in the November election, Donald Trump, for turning down the NAACP’s invitation to speak at its convention and because he “plays coy with white supremacists.”
“My opponent in this race might have a different view, but there’s nowhere I’d rather be than right here with all of you,” she said about Trump, currently in Cleveland at the other end of Ohio for the Republican National Convention. EFE
Washington, Jul 18 (EFE)
