LSU Football Legends React in Horror to Baton Rouge Cop Killings

Gunman Gavin Long of Kansas City, Missouri, murdered three policemen on Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The capital city, site of the shooting of Alton Sterling by police outside of a convenience store earlier this month, hosts the Louisiana State University Tigers, a perennial SEC football powerhouse that last posted a losing record in the last century. Players and coaches past and present reacted to the murder of the East Baton Rouge sheriff’s office deputy and two Baton Rouge police officers, which perhaps came as revenge for the earlier killing of an armed but not brandishing salesman of CDs, on Sunday.

Comment from #LSU coach Les Miles on Sunday’s tragic event in Baton Rouge. pic.twitter.com/xo7gDnRrx1

— LSU Football (@LSUfootball) July 17, 2016

Lord, have mercy on us. #PrayingForBatonRouge

— Tyrann Mathieu (@Mathieu_Era) July 17, 2016

You could never find right with wrong…

— Tyrann Mathieu (@Mathieu_Era) July 17, 2016

This makes me sick.. If another MF shots a cop…. Not every cop is horrible you dumb MF’s.. You protestors are starting to piss me off..

— DeSean Jamal Smith (@bigdesean) July 17, 2016

Can’t be a world where “Black Lives Matter” & those of the police officers don’t! Please stop the killing. An eye for an eye is not the way!

— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) July 17, 2016

Pray harder everyday…. Our kids have to grow up in this generation

— 7⃣ (@_fournette) July 17, 2016

Sunday’s murders of three policemen came ten days after a gunman in Dallas, Texas, killed five cops at a Black Lives Matter march.