Thursday’s attack came at the end of an otherwise peaceful march to protest police killings of two black men last week in Minnesota and Louisiana, the latest police killings of black men over the last two years that have triggered outrage, soul-searching and debates over the role of race.
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A Twitter account describing itself as representing the Black Lives Matter movement sent the message: “Black Lives Matter advocates dignity, justice and freedom”. As Charles Blow, the New York Times columnist put it: “Everyone deserves to go home”.
Dallas Police confirm in a Tweet that a fourth officer has died.
“The world saw him as a mass-murderer. Why?”
The attack came in a week that two black men were fatally shot by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and outside Minneapolis.
The anger appeared to be too much for some when events took another violent turn in Dallas on Thursday night, this time directed at police in apparent retaliation.
In contrast, the venom of Black Lives Matter may have given us a “Ferguson Effect” in major cities, where less-robust policing appears to have created the conditions for a spike in the murder rate (although more data is necessary for definitive conclusions). Some protesters stood in front of police who were clad in riot gear.
Police have said the Johnson acted alone.
A DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) police officer at the Baylor University Hospital emergency room entrance in Dallas.
Police deployed pepper balls to “move advancing demonstrators back”.
There were nasty scenes in Phoenix, Arizona where police used pepper spray to disperse stone-throwing protesters.
Reached by The Associated Press late Friday, Saputo said Hughes hasn’t “ruled out” taking legal action against Dallas police. A few feet away, two police officers attend to another victim. “I think it was an incident that reflects the individual responsible for it or the individuals responsible for it, rather than an indication of some serious underlying problem between the police department and the community that it serves”.
The rally in Dallas followed the fatal police shootings of Philando Castile, 32, near St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday, and Alton Sterling, 37, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday. As Brown prepares for several police funerals, he faces yet another grueling challenge: trying to lead a grieving department amid anti-police tensions across the country. On a week marked by intense hostility against our law enforcement, Dallas police reminded us of the courage and selflessness displayed by the vast majority of America’s men and women in uniform.
In San Francisco, people rallied at the waterfront, holding signs that read: “Stop racist police terror in the U.S”.
“If you care about the safety of police officers, you can’t set aside the gun issue and pretend that is irrelevant”, Obama said during a news conference in Brussels.
Police have yet to release the identities of the three suspects in custody, who are believed to have conspired in planning the attack.
In Atlanta, a crowd of about 2,000 people blocked a downtown interstate ramp during a march organized by the NAACP. According to a report from the Michigan State Police there were 495 hate crimes in Michigan in 2015. Sources say a man dressed in black was seen in the parking garage.
“One of the things that is exciting about this protest tonight: Our young people have an expectation that they will be treated fairly and justly… Every generation makes their demands”. Loud gunfire and screams can be heard in the footage, and Cooper says “They shooting for real at El Centro, they shooting El Centro College”. “I’m sure that this guy was the black sheep of his unit”.
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“He felt that people don’t understand the danger of dealing with a protest”, said Rawlings, who spoke to the surviving officer. Place your wallet in the seat beside you.
