“This wasn’t an ethical dilemma for me”, he added. The large crime scene includes the parking garage where Johnson was killed and at least two other sites where he is believed to have fired at officers. Protesters blocked a freeway and attacked police with rocks, bottles, fireworks, Molotov cocktails and metal bars, police said.
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WFAA reported that the department’s recruiting team “has received a flood of calls”, and potential applicants have sent the team messages and arrived in person to learn more.
Police have already deployed remotely controlled devices during critical situations to neutralize a suspect, but not to kill anyone, experts say.
Chief Brown said it was not clear what those letters meant. Mr Brown said: “It was planned and he had practised”. “I didn’t see it coming”, Micah Johnson’s father James Johnson, 55, said while sobbing. Through tears, Johnson said, “I hate what he did”.
Johnson opened fire at the Dallas demonstration that followed the deaths of two black men at the hands of police.
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Brent Thompson was a 43-year-old officer with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority. Some did this at Thursday’s march in Dallas.
Jenkins said people who aren’t black should recognize and empathize with the distrust and fear that black Americans feel toward police.
Among the 100 people held were three journalists and DeRay Mckesson, who has become a national voice for the Black Lives Matter movement. Some passing cars honked in support.
Protester Timothy Maymon suggests police should be retrained to shoot to wound.
Officer recruitment certainly isn’t just an issue for Dallas.
Johnson launched the harrowing attack during a protest in Texas last week following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philander Castile. Some protestors carried AR-15 rifles and wore body armor and camouflage, apparently for effect, he said.
The Detroit News reports (http://detne.ws/29xvuqS ) that one of the men is accused of urging people to kill white officers.
According to a court filing, the victim said she wanted Johnson to “receive mental help, ” and sought a protective order to keep him away from her and her family.
Police say two other posts about shooting officers were scrutinized.
The arrests follow the fatal shooting of five officers in Dallas. Moore said he has known the parents of one of the officers for many years and has worked with the officers on programs and projects.
The chief and the county’s most senior elected official also said Micah Johnson had larger attack plans and possessed enough explosive material to inflict far greater harm.
Brown said police are still going through Johnson’s laptop and mobile phone to determine whether others are connected, and they “haven’t ruled out whether or not others are complicit”. Police said the shooter had taunted police negotiators and scrawled on a wall in his own blood before he was ultimately killed in the standoff.
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The shootings just a few blocks from where President John F. Kennedy was slain in 1963 marked the deadliest day for US law enforcement since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
