Authorities do not “have any independent report from an officer saying, ‘I think I hit him,”‘ Jenkins said. “I just love Dallas and I love serving”.
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“If this had not been a crime of opportunity where the protest was quickly organized in response to events in the same week. he could have caused a lot more harm than he did”, Jenkins said. Toward the end of his tenure, Johnson was deployed to Afghanistan from November 2013 and returned in July 2014.
Lawyer Bradford Glendening told the Associated Press that Johnson was sent back with the recommendation that he be removed from the Army with an “other than honorable discharge”.
“The military was not what Micah thought it would be”, his mother said. “But it may be that the ideal that he thought of our government, of what he thought the military represented, it just didn’t live up to his expectation”.
Two days after the killing of five police officers by a black U.S. army veteran Micah Johnson during a protest rally in Dallas, a nearby parking lot was searched on Saturday for a “suspicious person” but no one was found.
The Blaze expects to show the full interview later this week.
Authorities are combing through 170 hours of body cam video and talking to more than 300 witnesses as they investigate Thursday’s shooting, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said in a news conference this morning.
Johnson was “clear of mind, determined to hurt more officers”, the police chief said.
He later became “gung-ho” about enlisting the military, she said. “He wanted to protect his country”. For example, Johnson was only interested in speaking with a black negotiator. Police said they used a shotgun to get through a locked door during the search.
Dallas police are trying to decipher a two letter acronym written in blood by the killer of five police officers before he was taken down by a police robot bomb, Dallas police said, adding that Micah Johnson had been plotting wider-scale attacks.
Others speculated he was trying to write “RBG” – for red, black and green, the colours of the Pan-African flag, a symbol of the black power movement. The suspect said he was upset at white people.
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The demonstrations were part of nationwide protests over the fatal police shootings of two black men this week in Louisiana and Minnesota.
