The city’s police chief vigorously defended the tactic.
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Police agencies across the U.S. are on edge and on guard after receiving threats and calls for violence against them on social media in the aftermath of the killings of two black men and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dallas.
On a visit to Spain on Sunday, he demanded an end to anti-police violence.
“But during that talk it didn’t matter whether he was black because he was shooting at us”.
Brown said police were caught off guard on Thursday when protesters began marching away from the original demonstration site, and were left exposed to the sniper’s fire as they scrambled to block off intersections.
“I approved it and would do it again if presented with same circumstances”, Brown told CNN on Sunday, referring to the strategy of deploying a bomb-equipped robot into a room where the suspect was holed up after his shooting rampage.
“You’re not seeing riots and you’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully”, he said from Warsaw, Poland, where he was attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit. In Dallas, officers swarmed police department headquarters Saturday after a report of a suspicious person in a garage before finally issuing an all-clear.
“I began to feel that it was only at a split second he would charge us and take out many more before we could kill him”, he said.
President Barack Obama cut short his trip to Europe and returned home to handle the aftermath of Dallas police shootings, as well as calm tensions surrounding the shooting deaths of two black men at the hands of police.
He also encouraged Americans to “stand up” to support police officers.
Throughout the day, a constant stream of visitors have come here – black, white, Hispanic; young couples, elderly folk, little girls in sun dresses – to pay their respects, say a prayer or simply shed a tear.
Dallas police confirmed that it received an anonymous threat against the law enforcement across the city and said that the department was taking precautionary measures to heighten security. “The problem is he was reassigning detectives from the office to back on the streets without any retraining”. “You’ve seen nearly uniformly peaceful protests and you’ve seen, uniformly, police handling those protests with professionalism”.
In St. Paul, Minnesota, 21 officers were injured on Saturday when they were pelted with rocks, bottles, construction material and fireworks.
While attending the University of Texas at Austin on a full scholarship, Brown became motivated to enter law enforcement when he returned to Dallas in the early 1980s and found friends from the neighborhood caught up in a cocaine epidemic.
“I’ve been black a long time”, Brown told reporters Monday. So we ask him, “Do you want to come out safely or do you want to stay there and we’re going to take you down?’ And he chose the latter”.
“We knew we couldn’t arrest our way out of the situation”, said Maj. The police have been violent tonight.
But it has been a gradual process of getting residents accustomed to community policing.
“I remain disappointed in the Baton Rouge police, who continue to provoke protesters for peacefully protesting”.
“I appreciate critics but they are not on the ground”. “We feel like the biggest gang is the police out here because they face no repercussions”. Carter said the first shot sounded like a firecracker.
To be sure, police relations are far better than they were 30 years ago, when The Associated Press identified Dallas as the No. 1 city for police shootings.
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Five officers were fatally shot in the attacks, and at least nine officers and two civilians were wounded.
