The shootings began shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday when, police say, an uncertain number of snipers shot and killed five police officers, wounded seven more and injured two civilians.
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With the lone shooter dead, Mayor Mike Rawlings declared that the city was safe and “we can move on to healing”.
“This was a mobile shooter that has written manifestos on how to shoot and move”. He added, “We are determined to not let this person steal this democracy from us”. The gunman was said to be targeting police, upset about Black Lives Matter and those two shootings back to back.
Friday afternoon, Dallas police said Johnson had bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics at his home. NY police made more than a dozen arrests on Thursday night, while protesters briefly shut down one of Chicago’s main arteries.
There was an exchange of gunfire with police, and the suspect finally died in a blast caused by a robot-controlled explosive device sent in by officers.
South Elgin officers also do community outreach and are available to speak to neighborhood associations, Merritt said. Dallas officers are hurting.
Police officials asked members of the Black Lives Matter movement to respect officers on hand during protests against police brutality Friday and over the weekend. Brown also said that “other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger”.
Johnson, who is believed to be from the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, confirmed his racial rage to police as he was holed up in the El Centro College parking garage in downtown Dallas. The Dallas Police Department has decided it will now only have officers working in pairs, and will not be sending officers out alone. “I think it’s good that they can come in and learn a little bit about what we do so the mystery is kind of taken away”, said Reading Ofc. One was Brent Thompson, 43, who joined the Dallas Area Rapid Transit police department in 2009, according to police.
Cooper said that when he heard the suspect was Johnson, he “was in disbelief because he’s just not like a violent or rough dude”.
Praising his city’s police department, Mayor Rawlings said Dallas recently had the lowest rate of officer-involved shootings of any large American city. Baton Rouge is where Alton Sterling was shot and killed by a police officer this week.
And in Tennessee, a man accused of shooting indiscriminately at passing cars and police on a highway told investigators he was angry about police violence against African-Americans, authorities said. “It’s troubling and it’s something that we watch”, Breul, a former Washington, D.C., police officer, said about the shootings.
He said more than 1,960 law enforcers have been killed in shootings, automobile accidents and other ways while performing their jobs over the history of the state. Lorne Ahrens, 48; Officer Michael Krol, 40; and Sgt. Michael J. Smith, 55. He was speaking mainly on behalf of police officers and their families, especially those who had loved ones killed or wounded, but his words also applied to the citizens of Dallas whose city was briefly turned into what looked like a war zone.
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“The suspect is deceased as a result of detonating the bomb”, he said.
