Dallas Police Chief David Brown, right, bows his head during a grave side service for slain Dallas police Sgt. Michael J. Smith at Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery in Dallas, Thursday, July 14, 2016.
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A lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan, he moved to Dallas in 2002 and became a member of the Dallas Police Department that year.
Dallas police say the officer is stable at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Police said Johnson, a former member of the military, was intent on killing whites, especially police officers.
“Lorne was one super-sized can of kick ass”, Dallas Officer Debbie Taylor said.
Smith was an Army Ranger before joining the Dallas police force in 1989.
Friends from the Dallas Police Department described him as a powerful presence on the force: a man who could easily rip burglar bars off windows with his bare hands as police raided drug houses.
At the funeral Wednesday for Ahrens in Plano, northeast of Dallas, mourners were told about Ahrens’ previous work with the Los Angeles County sheriff’s office and about his time as a semipro football player.
Thousands of mourners today attended the funerals for three of the five police officers slain last week in Dallas, Texas, one day after United States president Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush led a memorial service in the city.
DART Officer Brent Thompson, 43, was a father and had been married for two weeks to a fellow DART officer when he was killed.
His daughter delivered an emotional farewell to her father.
“To put it bluntly, I was angered at the senseless act that took my friend”, said Lance Wyatt, a retired police officer who had known Smith since 1992. They arrested one suspect on the scene and then tracked down two others. Officers in the police department wore their dark blue uniforms.
Unlike yesterday’s joint memorial service, the funerals were individual and took place in three different churches.
They are protesting police brutality, including the fatal shooting of Philando Castile by a suburban St. Paul officer during a traffic stop last week.
The resolution – which passed by unanimous consent – disavows the shooting “in the strongest possible terms”, calling the attack that killed Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer Brent Thompson and police officers Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Lorne Ahrens and Michael Smith a “heinous attack”.
More than a dozen protesters are blocking five lanes on southbound Interstate 35W near University Avenue Wednesday.
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Pastor Rick Owen (R) hugs Dallas police officer Eddie Coffey during the funeral for Officer Lorne Ahrens in Plano, Texas, U.S. July 13, 2016.
