The president planned to visit Dallas in a few days and to convene a White House meeting next week with police officers and community and civil rights activists.
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The Dallas Police headquarters is in lockdown after receiving a threat, and a masked man was spotted nearby.
“The Dallas Police Department received an anonymous threat against law enforcement across the city and has taken precautionary measures” to heighten security, Dallas police said in an emailed statement on Saturday.
Around 5:45 p.m. Dallas time, officers with their guns drawn were seen running outside police headquarters, according to CBS DFW. Reports of shots fired, but reporters on scene on side of building didn’t hear any. The Dallas Morning News reports one of the officers injured was a gay man named Jesus Retana.
UPDATE 6:05 p.m.: WFAA reporter Rebecca Lopez said police told her they were looking for one man in the DPD parking garage. Police initially suspected more than one shooter.
After Moss, a fellow officer, left the Fort Worth police force after falling ill in 2010, the couple successfully pushed for DART to extend health insurance and other benefits to same-sex partners and spouses.
But police were clearly taking no chances, especially in light of the deadly assault two days in earlier in downtown Dallas.
Thomas Castro says several general threats have been made against Dallas police, though nothing specific.
Dallas Police Department spokeswoman Sr. Cpl. But members of the public were still able to walk about freely around the building.
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The attack began Thursday evening while hundreds of people were gathered to protest the police killings of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot near St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling, who was shot in Louisiana after being pinned to the pavement by two white officers.
