The bomb making material found inside the home of Micah Johnson was very concerning to police.
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“We’re convinced that this suspect had other plans and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to target law enforcement to make us pay for what he sees as law enforcement’s efforts to punish people of color”, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
In an emotional interview, Delphine and James Johnson tearfully told how their son had changed from an extroverted, happy young man into a troubled “hermit” after his stint in the military. Both parents held back tears as they said that they loved their son, and they “didn’t see [the attack] coming”. “I hate what he did”, said Johnson.
“He loved his country”, Delphine Johnson said. “He wanted to protect his country”.
She revealed her son actually wanted to become a police officer at one point before deciding to join the military.
He said the state of the corpse and the scene around him were consistent with the tactic, which involved police using a Remotec robot with a claw and arm extension to detonate one pound of C4 plastic explosive close to Johnson, who was thought to have been crouched behind a wall, the Mail Online reported. “He was very disappointed”. “But it may be that the ideal that he thought of our government, what he thought the military represented, it just didn’t live up to his expectations”.
As authorities begin to piece together information about Micah Xavier Johnson, a military veteran who shot and killed five police officers in Dallas following a protest over the deaths of two black men by police, a city remains in shock and a nation is asked to unite.
Johnson reportedly wrote detailed plans in journals and electronic devices recovered by police. “This wasn’t some novice”, Mr Brown said.
On Thursday, Johnson took matters into his own hands and launched his attack on white officers during a “Black Lives Matter” protest.
This undated photo posted on Facebook on April 30, 2016, shows Micah Johnson, who was a suspect in the sniper slayings of five law enforcement officers in Dallas.
“This wasn’t an ethical dilemma for me”, he said.
Although he never expressed any hatred towards anyone of a particular race, Micah did grow extremely angry after the shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.
His female accuser sought a protective order against him “for myself, my family, home, restaurant and any other place of residence I may reside”. “Once you’re blacklisted by the alert that we put out, that’s a wrap”, Moore said.
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The police chief defended the decision to kill Johnson with a bomb delivered by remote-controlled robot, saying negotiations went nowhere and that officers could not approach him without putting themselves in danger.
