At least three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were killed and three others injured in a shooting yesterday described as an ambush, in the latest attack against law enforcement that has put Americans on edge.
One suspect had been killed and police were using a robot to check his body for explosives, according to Corporal L’Jean McNeely, a Baton Rouge police spokesman. “Three or four” officers were killed in the shootout, he said. “Officers did engage. There was no talking; there was shooting.”
The killings come amid a worsening national divide over policing. Recent shootings of black men by local police in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge ignited widespread protests in major cities across the US.