The alleged sniper attack during a Dallas protest Thursday over two recent fatal police shootings of black men was the deadliest day for law enforcement since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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Cory then tells the man he was voluntarily at the police station.
Police said in a statement around 11:30 p.m. CT a female suspect who was in a shootout with Dallas SWAT officers near the garage at El Centro College was in custody.
“We had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect”. “Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger”.
Cory said his brother turned himself and his gun into police. “The suspect stated that he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers”.
Philando Castile was fatally shot by a police officer in Falcon Heights during a traffic stop.
The shots were fired as the march was moving down Lamar Street near Griffin.
It is the deadliest day for United States law enforcement agents since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks killed 72, NBC News reported.
Two of the deceased officers are from the Dallas Police Department.
Rawlings told CBS News the people in custody, including one woman, were “not being cooperative” with police investigators.
“I believe in prayer, and I believe in protests”, protester Anna Parks said to the crowd as they joined hands in a circle on the sidewalk.
Other protests across the USA on Thursday were peaceful.
Brown had said three officers were killed, and police issued a tweet later saying a fourth officer had died.
“Tonight it appears that two snipers shot ten police officers from elevated positions during the protest/rally”, Brown wrote in an earlier statement.
Six other officers were wounded in the targeted attack along with at least one civilian. That person then collapsed to the ground.
Here is what we know as of Friday morning.
“There has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement”, President Barack Obama said in an early-morning Friday address from Poland. Brown said the suspect also told police “there are bombs all over the place in this garage and downtown”.
Police said they were questioning two occupants of a Mercedes they had pulled over after the vehicle sped off on a downtown street with a man who threw a camouflaged bag inside the back of the auto.
Three suspects, thought to be two men and a woman, are in custody.
“We are leaving every motive on the table on why this happened and how this happened”, Brown said. The area is only a few blocks away from Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
Outside the hospital, officers stood in formation and saluted as bodies of the officers were about to be transported. One was a Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer.
The initial gunshots were heard at Belo Garden Park around 8.45pm local time, as hundreds of people gathered to protest over fatal police shootings this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St Paul, Minnesota.
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On Tuesday, music vendor Alton Sterling was shot dead in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after being held down by police officers. Later, addressing the shootings, Obama said statistics show disparities about how African-Americans and Hispanics are treated by police and that America must say “we’re better than this”. Anger has intensified when the officers were acquitted in trials or not charged at all.
