2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers
| 2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers | |
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A CCTV still of Long firing at a Baton Rouge Police squad car. | |
| Location | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 30°26′02″N 91°04′54″W / 30.4338°N 91.0817°W |
| Date | July 17, 2016 8:42 – c. 8:48 a.m. (CDT) |
| Target | Police officers in Baton Rouge |
Attack type | Ambush, domestic terrorism, shootout, mass shooting |
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| Deaths | 5 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 2 |
| Perpetrator | Gavin Eugene Long |
| Motive | Backlash over police brutality against African Americans |
| Litigation | Federal lawsuit against Black Lives Matter by Tullier dismissed |
On July 17, 2016, Gavin Eugene Long shot six police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in an ambush attack, in the wake of the killing of Alton Sterling. Four died, including one who was critically wounded and died from complications in 2022, and two others were hospitalized; of the officers who initially died, two were members of the Baton Rouge Police Department, while the third worked for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. Long, who associated himself with organizations linked to black separatism and the sovereign citizen movement, was shot and killed by a SWAT officer during a shootout with police at the scene.