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Live updates: Three police officers shot dead in Baton Rouge

  • Three police officers have been shot dead in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • The gunman, named as ex-marine Gavin Long, has been shot and killed
  • He had posted videos online complaining about the police treatment of African-Americans
  • Surveillance photos have been released showing Long 'intentionally targeting' police and he had scoped out areas to carry out his attack
  • US President Barack Obama has called on his country to unite and avoid divisive language
  • Our Washington correspondent said America is facing a racial division that is spiralling out of control
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Clinton: Those who kill police must face 'full weight of law'

Credit: Reuters

Hillary Clinton has vowed to bring the "full weight of the law" against people who kill police officers if elected the next president of the US.

The presumptive Democratic candidate was addressing the convention of the civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Cincinnati.

Her comments follow the killing of three police officers by a gunman in Batton Rouge.

The NAACP also invited Donald Trump, the presumptive Republic challenger to Ms Clinton, but he has reportedly declined to attend the conference, which clashes with the timing of the Republican Convention.

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