Nearly a decade after a deadly attack on law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, a local nonprofit is holding a fundraiser fueled by bourbon to help equip officers with high-tech bulletproof vests.
The Capital Area Law Enforcement Foundation is raffling off a bourbon flight valued at $70,000 to buy as many rifle-rated bulletproof vests as possible for three local departments.
The fundraiser started earlier this week on the ninth anniversary of the 2016 ambush in which gunman Gavin Long shot and killed two BRPD officers and two East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies…