We are grieving as Law Enforcement community. Everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further. We are grieving for each other. We are grieving for our loss and for our families. Only we can prove that we have the grace and the character and the common humanity to end this kind of senseless violence. 8 00 p. M. Eastern on sunday night. Im Brian Williams here with rachel maddow. This hour was supposed to be devoted to a preview of the Gop Convention in cleveland and instead we are covering this. People this morning could be forgiven for perhaps glancing at their device and seeing a headline that the problem was with them. After all, baton rouge, louisiana, had last been in the news for Something Else entirely on july 5th. And now this. The Police Department was alerted to something wrong via a 911 call. The people in the local area were alerted something wrong by the distinct and repeated sound of rifle fire captured here on amateur
The Gonzales Police Department and the Ascension Parish Sheriff s Office, along with ATF and DEA agents, worked together to arrest three subjects and seize drugs and guns.
Ascension Parish deputies and Gonzales Police officers assisted the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff s Office with a search warrant at a Gonzales apartment complex during an investigation into an alle…