Gavin Eugene Long
Gavin Eugene Long, is the mass shooter on July 17, 2016, of six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an ambush attack. Three died and three were hospitalized, one critically.[1]
Long was identified as a Black separatist.[2]
He fired 43 rounds over nearly 14 minutes.[3]
SPLC:[4]
Gavin Long espoused antigovernment beliefs and affiliated with the Washitaw Nation, a Moorish sovereign citizen group comprised mostly of African Americans. Moorish sovereign citizens, like Long, do not recognize the authority of law enforcement or other government officials. Long regularly spoke of perceived police brutality on his social media accounts and chose to retaliate against the police, a symbolic target, as a result of his extremist views.
Experts:[5] Dallas attack seemingly first instance of deadly terrorism from extreme left in post-9/11 era at the time.
Analysis:[6]
Micah Xavier Johnson and Gavin Long are products of a "left wing," anti-police, anti-establishment ideology. The assassinations they carried out fit the pattern of the so-called "New Left" wave of terror carried out in the 1970s by the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers.
See also
References
- ↑ 3 police officers fatally shot in Baton Rouge; dead suspect identified, USA Today, July 17, 2016.
- ↑ Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Jenny Jarvie, Jared Kaleem, Marine Corps veteran identified as suspect in fatal shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge, The Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2026.
- ↑ Jason Hanna, Baton Rouge cop killer left note, fired at least 43 rounds, CNN, July 09, 2017.
- ↑ Daryl Johnson, Return of the Violent Black Nationalist, Splc, August 08, 2017.
Gavin Long espoused antigovernment beliefs and affiliated with the Washitaw Nation, a Moorish sovereign citizen group comprised mostly of African Americans. Moorish sovereign citizens, like Long, do not recognize the authority of law enforcement or other government officials. Long regularly spoke of perceived police brutality on his social media accounts and chose to retaliate against the police, a symbolic target, as a result of his extremist views.
- ↑ Peter Bergen and David Sterman, Dallas: An act of domestic terrorism, CNN, Jul 8, 2016.
The suspected Dallas sniper who killed five police officers has been identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25-year-old from Mesquite, Texas.
- ↑ A.J. Caschetta, Department of Homeland Security Targeting the Wrong Enemy, The Gatestone Institute, July 26, 2016. [1]