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Created page with "'''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..."
'''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.<ref>
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/07/17/reports-baton-rouge-police-officers-shot/87218884/ 3 police officers fatally shot in Baton Rouge; dead suspect identified], ''USA Today'', July 17, 2016.</ref>
Long was identified as a ''Black separatist.''<ref>Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Jenny Jarvie, Jared Kaleem, [https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-baton-rouge-police-shooting-20160717-snap-story.html Marine Corps veteran identified as suspect in fatal shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge], The Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2026.</ref>
He fired 43 rounds over nearly 14 minutes.<ref>Jason Hanna, [https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/us/baton-rouge-gavin-long-police-killings/index.html Baton Rouge cop killer left note, fired at least 43 rounds], ''CNN'', July 09, 2017.</ref>
SPLC:<ref>Daryl Johnson, [https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/return-violent-black-nationalist Return of the Violent Black Nationalist], ''Splc'', August 08, 2017.<blockquote>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.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>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.</blockquote>
Analysis:<ref>A.J. Caschetta, [https://www.meforum.org/6147/dhs-targeting-wrong-enemy Department of Homeland Security Targeting the Wrong Enemy], ''The Gatestone Institute'', via ME Forum, July 26, 2016.</ref><blockquote>[[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.</blockquote>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Terrorism]]
[[Category:Black nationalism]]
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/07/17/reports-baton-rouge-police-officers-shot/87218884/ 3 police officers fatally shot in Baton Rouge; dead suspect identified], ''USA Today'', July 17, 2016.</ref>
Long was identified as a ''Black separatist.''<ref>Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Jenny Jarvie, Jared Kaleem, [https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-baton-rouge-police-shooting-20160717-snap-story.html Marine Corps veteran identified as suspect in fatal shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge], The Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2026.</ref>
He fired 43 rounds over nearly 14 minutes.<ref>Jason Hanna, [https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/us/baton-rouge-gavin-long-police-killings/index.html Baton Rouge cop killer left note, fired at least 43 rounds], ''CNN'', July 09, 2017.</ref>
SPLC:<ref>Daryl Johnson, [https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/return-violent-black-nationalist Return of the Violent Black Nationalist], ''Splc'', August 08, 2017.<blockquote>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.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>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.</blockquote>
Analysis:<ref>A.J. Caschetta, [https://www.meforum.org/6147/dhs-targeting-wrong-enemy Department of Homeland Security Targeting the Wrong Enemy], ''The Gatestone Institute'', via ME Forum, July 26, 2016.</ref><blockquote>[[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.</blockquote>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Terrorism]]
[[Category:Black nationalism]]