The lockdown was put into place shortly after 4 p.m.
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In Houston, the largest city in the Lone Star state, the police department said in a statement that their thoughts and prayers were with Dallas Police for a speedy recovery for the officers injured.
Dozens of people have been at DPD headquarters recently to pay their respects at a growing memorial for the officers killed in the line of duty Thursday night in downtown Dallas. They follow videos involving police shootings of black men in Louisiana and MS and the killing of five police officers by a sniper in Dallas earlier this week.
Johnson also “liked” the Dallas, Arlington and Ft.
Prior to his service with the agency, Thompson had worked with DynCorp International, supporting the operations of American police officers who were training Iraqi law enforcement in southern Iraq, according to Thompson’s LinkedIn profile.
Police controversially killed Johnson with a robot armed with a bomb while negotiating with him early Friday morning, as Common Dreams reported.
Clarence Castile described his nephew, Philando, as giving, timid and loving.
DPD SWAT has been deployed to DPD headquarters after they received a threat which is being taken seriously.
Officers are riding in two to three man units with high-powered rifles as they continue to try and do their jobs while looking over their shoulders.
In Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee, authorities said gun-wielding civilians also shot officers in individual attacks that came after two black men were killed this week in Louisiana and Minnesota.
On Saturday, President Barack Obama said he would convene a task force at the White House in the coming weeks with law enforcement officials and community activists about the spate of police shootings and race relations. “He is the officer in charge, and I think he made the right call”, Rawlings said.
In taking personal responsibility for approving the plan in the aftermath of Thursday’s attack, Chief David Brown said he was convinced that the gunman would have sought to harm other police officers if he had hesitated to give the go-ahead.
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“Tired of y’all tryin’ [to] be on these cops side making it okay based off irrelevant info, when our own get killed over unjust s**t”, she said, prior to the shooting in Dallas and in response to the recent killing of Alton Sterling.
