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Three Police Officers Killed in Baton Rouge Shooting

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One of the officers killed in the Baton Rouge shooting, which left a total of three officers dead. Photo: Baton Rouge Police Department.

One of the officers killed in the Baton Rouge shooting. Photo: Baton Rouge Police Department.

A gunman fatally shot three law enforcement officers and wounded three others here on Sunday before being killed in a shootout with the police. The attack’s motive was unclear as of Sunday evening, leaving an anxious nation to wonder whether the anger over recent police shootings had prompted another act of retaliation against officers.

What was clearer were the waves of worry that rushed across the United States as sketchy details emerged of a bloody melee Sunday morning on a workaday stretch of highway in Louisiana’s capital — a city that had already been rocked by the police shooting on July 5 of a black man, a purported murder plot against the police that was apparently foiled and many racially charged nights of protest and rage.

Read full story at The New York Times.

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