Reprinted with permission from the Christian Examiner
By Gregory Tomlin, Christian Examiner
BATON ROUGE (Christian Examiner) – The gunman who opened fire on Louisiana police officers Sunday, killing three and wounding three others, admitted in a video that he was once a member of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and associated with other black power groups, but he said he should not be identified with anything except what he called “the religion of justice.”
Gavin Eugene Long, 29, of Kansas City, Missouri, a self-described “nutritionist, life coach, dietitian, personal trainer, author and spiritual advisor” with no formal training in any of the fields, wrote three books on black spirituality and self-improvement for “melanated people” under the name of Cosmo Setrepena. He was a former Marine.
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