Thursday’s ambush of the officers in Dallas was the deadliest day for USA law enforcement since the 2001 terrorist attacks. “I’m a life-long citizen of Dallas and this is just a bad thing that happened here”.
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“You are not seeing riots and you are not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully”.
Micah Johnson, an Army veteran, received instruction at the Academy of Combative Warrior Arts in the Dallas suburb of Richardson about two years ago, said the school’s founder and chief instructor, Justin J. Everman.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Sunday that open carry gun laws made it hard for police to tell, in the aftermath of the shooting that killed five police officers Thursday night, who was a suspect and who wasn’t.
Dallas remained on edge on Saturday.
The city’s police headquarters and the surrounding blocks were placed under lockdown early Saturday evening after an anonymous threat was made against the entire police department.
On Twitter, Dallas Police said reports of shots fired were inaccurate and that police were searching a police parking garage for a suspicious person.
A number of gun attacks involving police officers and civilians have occurred in other parts of the USA in the aftermath of the deaths in Minnesota and Louisiana.
WFAA’s report said the shooter knew police would be out in full-force at protests in Dallas.
Mawuli Davis, an African-American attorney and activist in Atlanta, said what’s happening is a continuation of events in recent years because there has been no serious dialogue over issues of race and police encounters with black people. Black people can do no wrong in Obama’s America. Only six states and Washington, D.C., restrict the open carry of long guns such as the one carried by a man whom Dallas police identified as a suspect but later cleared.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings also visited the headquarters, hoping that something positive could come from one of his city’s darkest days.
Dallas Police said its officials – using dogs – searched the parking lot but the hunt turned up nothing.
In Baton Rouge, there were scuffles between riot police and demonstrators.
Thousands marched in USA cities overnight on Friday, and there were nasty scenes in Phoenix, Arizona, where police used pepper spray to disperse stone-throwing protesters. About a thousand demonstrators turned out in NY, where they stymied traffic on busy Fifth Avenue and shouted chants such as “No racist police, no justice, no peace”.
“I approved it, and I’d do it again if presented with the same circumstances”, he said, adding that he had no patience for a debate on whether using the robot presented an unwise escalation in police tactics.
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“And we just need to hear from the protesters back to us, ‘We appreciate the work you do for us in our right to protest, ‘” Brown said.
