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From yesterday. Police say this is the reason for the aggressive crack down of the peaceful protest earlier.
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 weekends 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.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)The proper response is to point out that they were arrested without being shot, and to deduce from that their race. I mean, Dylann Roof wasn't shot because he was white,
I like pointing out things that utterly falsify beliefs because most true believers don't notice counter-evidence or, if they do, they don't realize it says something about what they hold true.
The two arrested with him were 17 and adult.
You feed hate, you get more hate.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Chemisse
(30,817 posts)And the lack of being shot should not indicate their race either way. There are plenty of people of all races who are arrested each day without being shot.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)Three or four dead officers and 4 wounded this morning.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)Coincidence? Or were they part of the group who shot the officers today?!
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)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?
StraightRazor
(260 posts)I supposed I'll have to take your attitude into account - wouldn't want to disappoint in the future.
Thanks for the warm welcome.
PatSeg
(47,589 posts)StraightRazor
(260 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)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.
StraightRazor
(260 posts)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.
mia
(8,362 posts)Please God. Not here.
Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)Democat
(11,617 posts)Why would people give them what they want?