LA - Baton Rouge. 3 officers killed/3 wounded, 17 July 2016

it is amazig ot me how much attn media gives to words from these folks. Their murderers. How much focus woud one give Homes, Batman dude? Lanza? Congresswoman shooter? Planned Parenthood.

America has been having mass shootings for decades. Terrorist is the buzz word in media today. Medonalds yesterday was not a terrorist. He was mentally ill.IMO. The one last night was not a terrorist. He was mentally ill.IMO. Batman was not a terrorist. He was mentally ill.IMO. PUlse was not a terrorist. He was mentally ill.IMO. The Dallas guy was not a terrorist He was mentally ill.IMO..

The longer we, as a society keep trying to blame everything in ISIS the longer we are not gonna address educating the public on signs and behaviors that should make one more aware, to help authorities. Do not be looking for Muslim folks, be aware of isolated, angry, domestic violent, criminal history, lack of social skills, numbed affect, odd thinking patterns--- way before ISIS was even present America has been shot up by mentally ill folks that fall through our cracks - our misunderstanding of what metnal illiness looks and sounds like. What it IS.

It is real illiness. It is identical to diabetes. Just like insulin - neurotranmitters are not being produced, or over produced, resulting in symtoms. It is like this country "stalled" in the 50's with insane asylums. Very few severly mentally ill folks are talking to the stars. Very few.

Mental illiness is like ice cream. Ice cream is ice cream , indeed, but there are many many flavors.....................

IMO our best bet would be to educate public on what severe metnal illiness looks like - that would go a long way to intervening beofre it ends on a WS thread!!!

All our ills are not ISIS mooo
 
Michael Jordan Breaks Silence on Race-Related Police Shootings

Jul 25, 2016, 1:18 PM ET



Basketball legend Michael Jordan lost his father, James, in 1993 after two men shot him to death in his car while he was parked on the side of a highway in North Carolina.

Today, Jordan is doing what fellow greats like Muhammad Ali have done before him, speaking out against what he views as current social injustices plaguing this nation - not just the killing of allegedly innocent blacks in this country at the hands of police, but the targeted retaliation of police thereafter.

https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews....ce-shootings/story?id=40856636?client=safari#
 
I wonder, if we will ever understand the mind of a killer like this, well enough to identify clues, and find someone before they kill, but then, he/she would not have committed a crime yet.

Like finding Dylan Klebold, the day before Columbine, and not being able to intervene, because he showed "signs" of being a mass serial killer. Even terminating his ability to attend school requires a reason and due process.

Laws need to change, if people like this are identified. Even a three day hold in a psych ward, for involuntary hold, can't go on forever, without evidence of intent, and when does fantasy, cross into action?
 
August 3, 2016
12:32 AM EDT

Baton Rouge officer's father writes touching Facebook post

The father of a Baton Rouge deputy who survived the deadly July 17th attack on police officers, posted an update and a touching story about his son.

On his Facebook account, James Tullier wrote that his son, Nick Tullier, an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy, still remains on life support.

Tullier, 41, was shot in an attack that killed three law enforcement officers and injured two others.

On Tuesday, his father shared a good Samaritan story regarding his son that occurred just a day before the attack. His Facebook post received more than 10,000 reactions and 3,600 shares by Tuesday night.

THE GOOD SAMARITAN
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After finishing a day shift on July 16, Deputy Tullier had been heading home when he came across a woman on the side of the road with a flat tire.

"Instead of just passing her by and let her fend for herself, Nick pulled over to help," his father wrote. "He called his fiancé to let her know he would be delayed getting home and that he had to stop to give assistance."

The stranded woman had small children with her. So Tullier took out a spare tire from his sheriff's car and put it on the woman's car.
"He then followed her all the way back to her home in Baton Rouge making sure she and the kids got home safe... Nick then took his spare tire back off the lady's car and returned it to his unit," wrote his father.

The very next day, Tullier was critically wounded in the shooting.




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August 3, 2016
12:32 AM EDT

Baton Rouge officer's father writes touching Facebook post

The father of a Baton Rouge deputy who survived the deadly July 17th attack on police officers, posted an update and a touching story about his son.

On his Facebook account, James Tullier wrote that his son, Nick Tullier, an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy, still remains on life support.

Tullier, 41, was shot in an attack that killed three law enforcement officers and injured two others.

On Tuesday, his father shared a good Samaritan story regarding his son that occurred just a day before the attack. His Facebook post received more than 10,000 reactions and 3,600 shares by Tuesday night.

THE GOOD SAMARITAN
See Link For Facebook Post


After finishing a day shift on July 16, Deputy Tullier had been heading home when he came across a woman on the side of the road with a flat tire.

"Instead of just passing her by and let her fend for herself, Nick pulled over to help," his father wrote. "He called his fiancé to let her know he would be delayed getting home and that he had to stop to give assistance."

The stranded woman had small children with her. So Tullier took out a spare tire from his sheriff's car and put it on the woman's car.

"He then followed her all the way back to her home in Baton Rouge making sure she and the kids got home safe... Nick then took his spare tire back off the lady's car and returned it to his unit," wrote his father.

The very next day, Tullier was critically wounded in thee shooting.



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http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/us/tullier-baton-rouge-father/index.html
 
[h=3]Father of Deputy Tullier: 'Our only hope is for a miracle'[/h][FONT=&quot]“Had some complications over the last 48 hours with both major injury sites,” explains James Tullier about the most recent medical procedure. “[The surgery was to for] Stopping infection, fever on and off, sealing wound areas mainly.”[/FONT]
 
VA records: Former Marine who killed 3 in Baton Rouge did not have PTSD

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Marine who ambushed and killed three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers last month never saw combat in Iraq, but told doctors he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder because a buddy showed him videos of maimed and decapitated bodies, according to newly released Veterans Health Administration medical Records,

In 2011, his doctor wrote that he "informed patient that in this writer's opinion, he did not meet the ... criteria for PTSD." He was prescribed the antidepressant citalopram. The VA also informed him about its mental health clinic and its 24-hour services in the area.

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_ro...a5ec-276c72f8bba0.html?sr_source=lift_amplify
 
Son shot, home flooded: 2 tragedies rock 1 Louisiana family
For nearly 50 days, James Tullier has barely left the Baton Rouge hospital where he's held vigil for his son, a sheriff's deputy wounded in an ambush that killed three other officers — not even when his family was hit by a second tragedy, their homes wrecked in historic flooding.

Tullier doesn't have time to mourn the damage to his house, or the neighboring homes of his other two sons. Doctors initially feared that Nick Tullier had less than 24 hours to live after the shooting.

"The house could have washed away. It's just not a priority to us. Nick is our priority," James Tullier said during an interview at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, where James, his wife, Mary, and Nick's fiancee take shifts at his bedside.
 
Slain Baton Rouge officer's widow says she's pregnant
The wife of a fallen Baton Rouge police officer learned she was carrying his child just two weeks after he was killed in an ambush attack.

Dechia Gerald told WAFB that her baby will be a “wonderful and constant reminder” of her late husband, Officer Matthew Gerald. She's sad that he will never get to meet his child, but believes the baby is a gift that he left behind.
 
BATON ROUGE, La. -- The military veteran who killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge last summer left behind a suicide note, a prayer from an Islamic holy book and an online trail of his rage against police.*

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gavin-l...ehind-suicide-note-prayer-prosecutors-report/

Long left a printout in his car from an Islamic holy book that was mostly in Arabic.*

"It references asking forgiveness from Allah and includes a prayer passage wherein it states that repeating the prayer and dying on the same day guarantees the person will go to paradise," the report said.
 

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