Officers shot and killed in Baton Rouge, La.
Louisiana police officer PJ Freeman stops to pay his respects at a roadside memorial for the three officers slain in Baton Rouge.
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The Arline Highway roadside memorial for the slain officers has become a focus for public grief.
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The roadside memorial.
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Signs adorn the roadside memorial.
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Surrounded by members of the Baton Rouge community, Methodist pastor Colleen Bookter holds a sign that says UNITE during a vigil on the LSU campus Wednesday.
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A supporter hugs a Baton Rouge police officer after a rally that included hundreds of motorcyclists.
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Baton Rouge Police Officer Lorenzo Coleman is greeted by biker Fowler Montgomery with In The Wind Ministries after a rally with nearly 400 motorcycle riders from various local clubs who rode to police headquarters to show thier support.
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Nearly 400 motorcycle riders from various local clubs rally in support of the Baton Rouge police department.
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Baton Rouge Police Officers hug each other during a rally with nearly 400 motorcycle riders from various local clubs who rode to police headquarters to show thier support.
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Nearly 400 motorcycle riders from various local clubs rally in support of the Baton Rouge police department. The riders stood with police officers and bowed their heads together in prayer.
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Mourners hug after praying in front of the roadside memorial for the three slain police officers on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, La.
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While a small group of people prays next to a memorial on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, La., residents are anxious about the future of their community after the recent police shooting of Alton Sterling and a gunman’s ambush that killed three police officers.
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A small group prays together in a circle in front of the roadside memorial for the three slain police officers on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, La.
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A roadside memorial includes a sign with photos of Montrell Jackson, from left, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola, the three police officers killed in the line of duty in Baton Rouge, La.
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New signs have sprung up along Airline Highway at the memorial for the three slain Baton Rouge, La., police officers.
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The Louisiana State Police continue their investigation into the shooting deaths of three police officers in Baton Rouge in the parking lot of the car wash along Airline Highway.
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Dechia Gerald, widow of slain Baton Rouge Police Officer Matthew Gerald, weeps while she cradles her two daughters on her lap during a candlelight vigil at the Healing Place Church.
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A candlelight vigil is held for slain Officer Matthew Gerald at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge.
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Residents of Baton Rouge, La., at a roadside memorial for the three police officers killed in an ambush Sunday.
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Baton Rouge, La., residents take photos with their fists raised in front of a mural of Alton Sterling, who was killed by police in early July.
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A mural of Alton Sterling on North Foster Road in Baton Rouge, La., near the site that he was killed by police.
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Members of the public pay their respects to three slain officers in Baton Rouge, La., at a roadside memorial along Airline Highway, in front of the gas station and car wash where the ambush took place.
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Robert Ossler, center, a police chaplain from Millville, N.J., who had come for support, comforts people July 18 at a memorial for three police officers killed in an ambush attack in Baton Rouge, La.
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Baton Rouge, La., resident Ching Mei Lee weeps July 18 as she leaves flowers and a card for three slain police officers at a roadside memorial near where they were ambushed.
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A woman pays respects to three slain Baton Rouge, La., police officers at a roadside memorial on July 18.
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Three wooden crosses are tied to a roadside memorial on July 18, near where three Baton Rouge, La., police officers were slain.
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Police officers near the scene of where three officers were killed Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, La.
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Baton Rouge Police Officer Markell Morris with flowers and a Superman action figure that someone left at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital.
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Police guard the emergency room entrance of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, where officers injured in a shooting were being treated.
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An East Baton Rouge police officer patrols Airline Highway after three officers were shot to death Sunday morning.
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Baton Rouge police stop a car and direct the driver to show his hands on Airline Highway after he came from the direction of a shooting in which three officers died on Sunday. The driver’s car was searched, his identification checked and he was allowed to continue.
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A law enforcement officer patrols Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, La., after three officers were shot to death Sunday morning.
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Baton Rouge police officers work a roadblock at Old Hammond Highway and Tara Boulevard after multiple law enforcement officers were shot on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La.
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Authorities talk to the driver of a car close to where several law enforcement officers were shot while on duty less than a mile from Baton Rouge Police Headquarters on Sunday.
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Authorities block Airline Highway in Baton Rouge, La., after six law enforcement officers were shot on Sunday morning.
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Law enforcement officials block Airline Highway after officers were shot.
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