What we know about the suspected shooter in Baton Rouge

The day after five police officers were fatally shot during a protest in Dallas, 29-year-old Gavin Long took to YouTube to express a controversial view on the incident.

“I’m not gonna harp on that, you know, with a brother killing the police. You get what I’m saying?” Long said, according to a video posted online. “That’s, it’s justice.”

Long — who law enforcement officials said is believed to have fatally shot three officers in Baton Rouge and wounded three others — appears to have been eager for black people to take a strong physical stance against mistreatment by authorities, according to online footage and other materials. In one video, referring to Native Americans, he said, “When they were extincted by the same people that run this country, my question to you, just something you can think about: At what point should they have stood up?”

In another, he praised the Deacons for Defense — a group of African Americans who formed an armed self-defense group during the civil rights movement of the 1960s — as men who “when they kids was also getting killed by cops and other white supremacy members, they stood up and stood firm.” Long was black.

“It’s a time for peace, but it’s a time for war, and most of the times when you want peace, you got to go to war,” Long said, jazz playing in the background as he spoke. “You see what I’m saying?”

Many details remain unclear about why — and even how — Long killed two Baton Rouge police officers and one East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy before law enforcement officers fatally shot him. Police have said only that police were contacted about a man “carrying a weapon, carrying a rifle” about 8:40 a.m. Sunday, and after officers in the area spotted the man, a shootout ensued.

The videos online suggest Long was willing to endorse violent methods to take on those in power. In one clip — purportedly filmed in Dallas after the shooting of police officers there — he said mere demonstrations had “never worked, and it never will” and praised Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion, and Malcolm X.

“If you all want to keep protesting, do that, but for the serious ones, the real ones, the alpha ones, we know what it’s gonna take,” Long said. “It’s only fighting back or money. That’s all they care about. Revenue and blood.”

Gavin Long, who fatally shot three police officers in Baton Rouge, posted YouTube videos endorsing violent resistance to authorities.© Provided by WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post Gavin Long, who fatally shot three police officers in Baton Rouge, posted YouTube videos endorsing violent resistance to authorities.Near Long’s home in Kansas City, Mo., which remained cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape Sunday night, a woman who identified herself as Long’s aunt and gave her first name as Donna acknowledged that Long “killed innocent people” but said he was “a very, very good person, a very very good student.”

“We’re hurting, too,” she said. CONTINUES

Below is the About Page of Gavin Long's website (before it's no longer available)

COSMO GLOBAL

Cosmo is a nutritionist, life coach, dietitian, personal trainer, author and spiritual advisor.

At the age of sixteen, after self-educating himself about fitness, nutrition, and diet, Cosmo lost over eighty pounds in six months. He then joined the United States Marine Corps and earned the rank of Sergeant (E-5) in less than three years as one of the Corps most physically fit Marines. During his five years as a Marine, Cosmo spent two years in Japan and did one tour in Iraq. While stationed in San Diego, California, Cosmo became a highly esteemed and sought after nutritionist and personal trainer. 

 

After completing an Associate’s degree in General Studies at Central Texas College, Cosmo then attended Clark Atlanta University to further his education. After a year and a half at Clark Atlanta as a dean’s list student, he had a spiritual revelation that resulted in him dropping out of college, selling his two cars, giving away all of his material possessions, packing two suitcases and journeying to Africa—his ancestral homeland.

 

While in Africa, Cosmo’s spiritual journey took him across Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Ghana and Burkina Faso. During that time he frequented the highly treasured and revered mountainous regions of Africa and was taught by Africa’s native spiritual practitioners and elder holistic healers.

 

Cosmo has been an avid student of nutrition, health, fitness, personal transformation and spiritual mastery since the age of sixteen. He conducts sports nutrition workshops locally, nationally, and internationally. He has traveled nationally to over thirty States in the U.S., and internationally to The Bahamas, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Maldives (Island country near India), Iraq, and Africa to name a few.

 

In addition to over twelve years of health, fitness, and nutrition experience, Cosmo also has extensive sports nutrition, life-coach, and spiritual counseling experience with fitness enthusiasts, professional athletes and spiritual seekers. In one-on-one sessions, he coaches his clients on ways to create a daily food plan that is successful and can be maintained over the long-term. He also helps them reach their optimal weight, diet, spiritual and personal growth goals.

 

The Cosmo Way: Volume One: The Detox is the first of three volumes. Volume Two: The Ascension spotlights the more esoteric principles such as melanin, the Third Eye, and the often hidden metaphysical knowledge on prayer, meditation and mastering the-self relationship. Volume Three: The Practice will focus on the practical steps and exercises that give rise to superior health and higher consciousness. It will include detailed but simple to understand practices such as yoga, meditation, yogic breathing, postures, and mudras. Cosmo hass also recently just finished authoring his most anticipated book titled The Laws of The Cosmos: Wisely Follow or Blindly Suffer—The Definitive Law Guide To Spiritual Success.

For life coaching, counseling, and spiritual consultations email Cosmo at TheCosmoWay7@gmail.com

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    I could be mistaken, but this impresses me as either a Mind Control or MK-ULTRA scenario. See what you think by watching this video:

        From:       jadinardo@
        Subject:     Radio: C.I.A. Zombie Shooters Book, OPERATION MIND CONTROL
        Date:     14 August 2012 23:49:19 GMT+01:00
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       Radio KFJC-FM, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California:
    Veteran researcher of covert politics, Dave Emory, interviews
    Walter Bowart, author of the landmark book, OPERATION MIND
    CONTROL.  Among many shocking revelations, we learn of hapless
    victims who are hypno-traumatized and narco-traumatized to be
    programmed as human robotic filing cabinets, and zombie shooters.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMcVdoNo2o 57 minutes


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