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Baton Rouge: Shooter had ties with Black Sovereign Movement

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Baton Rouge: Shooter had ties with Black Sovereign Movement
Ongoing investigations into the past of the one of the shooters in Baton Rouge who was killed during the attack which claimed the lives of three policemen and the wounding of three others reveals that he (Gavin Long) days before the attack, filed to legally change his name to Cosmo Setepenra and declared himself a member of an indigenous “nation” governed by “special laws,” according to court documents.
The group, the United Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah Mu’ur Nation, Mid-West Washita Tribes, according to the May 2015 filing, includes members who “embody historical continuity with societies, which existed prior to the conquest and settlement of their territories by Europeans … (as well as peoples brought involuntarily to the New World who freed themselves and re-established cultures from which they have been torn).”
Thus far, no motive has yet been identified for the attack on the six law enforcement officers who were fatally shot.

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