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12-Year-Old Arrested in Plot to Shoot Baton Rouge Police
From yesterday. Police say this is the reason for the aggressive crack down of the peaceful protest earlier.
http://time.com/4409356/baton-rouge-police-plot-12-year-old-suspect/
Police said the boy was part of a plot to shoot officers with stolen handguns
Police in Baton Rouge, La., on Friday arrested a 12-year-old boy who they say is a suspect in a plot to shoot police officers using stolen handguns.
Three other suspects were already arrested in the case, after eight handguns were stolen in a pawn shop robbery on July 9. The others who were arrested are Antonio Thomas, 17, Malik Bridgewater, 20, and an unnamed 13-year old, the Times-Picayune reported.
The 12-year-old boy arrested Friday was charged with simple burglary and theft of a firearm, the AP reported.
Police said the plot was the reason for their heavy response to last weekend’s largely peaceful protests over the death of Alton Sterling, a black man who was shot and killed by police officers on July 5 while he was pinned to the ground outside a convenience store. The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is suing Baton Rouge police over their treatment of protesters, claiming authorities used excessive force and carried out mass arrests.
“We took this as a very viable threat,” Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie said at a press conference last week about the robbery, according to USA Today. “We have received questions as to why we used such a show of force during weekend protests, this is why.”
Police said the boy was part of a plot to shoot officers with stolen handguns
Police in Baton Rouge, La., on Friday arrested a 12-year-old boy who they say is a suspect in a plot to shoot police officers using stolen handguns.
Three other suspects were already arrested in the case, after eight handguns were stolen in a pawn shop robbery on July 9. The others who were arrested are Antonio Thomas, 17, Malik Bridgewater, 20, and an unnamed 13-year old, the Times-Picayune reported.
The 12-year-old boy arrested Friday was charged with simple burglary and theft of a firearm, the AP reported.
Police said the plot was the reason for their heavy response to last weekend’s largely peaceful protests over the death of Alton Sterling, a black man who was shot and killed by police officers on July 5 while he was pinned to the ground outside a convenience store. The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is suing Baton Rouge police over their treatment of protesters, claiming authorities used excessive force and carried out mass arrests.
“We took this as a very viable threat,” Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie said at a press conference last week about the robbery, according to USA Today. “We have received questions as to why we used such a show of force during weekend protests, this is why.”
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Three or four dead officers and 4 wounded this morning. 
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-12-arrested-connection-alleged-plot-kill-louisiana-cops-n610896
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Usually the lower someone's post count, the more details they know about the perps race/religion/ideology than any news reports.
Trump's people want hostility like this so they can claim he's the law and order candidate who is going to stop this somehow. Has he said how? build walls in neighborhoods too?
Here are the 3:
Usually the lower someone's post count, the more details they know about the perps race/religion/ideology than any news reports.
Trump's people want hostility like this so they can claim he's the law and order candidate who is going to stop this somehow. Has he said how? build walls in neighborhoods too?
I meant the folks who join up just so they can share lots of juicy tidbits that no one in the news media reports. I always welcome them to DU. Then I look back later and most of them have been blocked. This is especially true after mass shootings and terrorism events.
I can dig it - I've been a 'member without actually joining' here for years and only decided to get involved fairly recently so you're not going to see that nonsense from me.
