“That’s part of why it’s so tragic that those officers were targeted in Dallas, a place that because of its transparency and training and openness and engagement has drastically brought down the number of police shootings”, Obama said. “But it may be that the ideal that he thought of our government, what he thought the military represented, it just didn’t live up to his expectations”.
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Johnson, who served in the Army Reserve for six years starting and did one tour in Afghanistan, insisted on speaking with a black negotiator and wrote in blood on the wall of a parking garage where police cornered and later killed him, Brown said.
“They did things that day that are just hard to describe”, he said.
At the time of the standoff on Thursday night, Johnson told hostage negotiators that he had been angry about recent fatal shootings of black men by police across the U.S. and wanted to kill white people, especially police officers, Brown confirmed.
“Will be great to get you back in the academy”, Everman said, according to a comment thread saved by the AP before Johnson’s Facebook profile was taken down.
After shooting at the Dallas officers, Johnson tried to take refuge in a parking garage and exchanged gunfire with police, authorities said. You and I know what we must do and I don’t mean marching, making a lot of noise, or attending conventions.
Along with the five dead officers, seven others were wounded in what’s been described as the deadliest day for United States law enforcement since 9/11.
The man’s statement was corroborated by a police report from May 8, 2015, when someone at a business a short distance away called in a report of several suspicious people in a parked SUV. “I hate what he did”. They say the headquarters building is not on lockdown and that no shots have been fired.
The father of shooter Micah Johnson broke down in tears and struggled to find words as he tried to make sense of last week’s tragedy during a sit-down interview with TheBlaze published Monday.
The city is on edge since a sniper opened fire on officers guiding a protest march two days ago, killing five officers.
Police in Dallas were also questioned over their decision to use a bomb mounted on a robot to kill the gunman while he was holed up after killing the five officers.
Leaked images appear to show Dallas gunman Micah Johnson after he was killed by a remote controlled robotic bomb.
Twenty-one officers were injured in the hours-long melee, including one who suffered a broken vertebrae when a rioter dropped a 11-kilogram chunk of concrete on his head from an overpass, police spokesman Steve Linders said.
The emotional aftershocks from the nation’s recent spate of fatal shootings by and of police intensified Monday, with the Dallas police chief revealing that he and his family have received death threats ever since a gunman killed five officers there last week.
Three people were arrested at the protest; two were released and one was charged with a misdemeanor weapons charge, Brown said.
“But even rhetorically, if we paint police in broad brush without recognizing that the vast majority of police officers are doing a really good job and are trying to protect people and do so fairly and without racial balance. then we’re going to lose allies in the reform cause”, Obama said Sunday in Madrid.
The fact that Johnson had material for explosives and talked of using homemade bombs during a stand-off with police before he was killed indicated he could have inflicted more damage with more time, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said. Numerous police vehicles and armed officers were outside. Maj.
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“Get off that protest line and put an application in, and we’ll put you in your neighborhood, and we will help you resolve some of the problems you’re protesting about”, he added.
