Police are also searching Johnson’s laptop and cellphones to try and find out whether anyone may have helped him plan Thursday’s attack.
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A protest by the Black Lives Matter group in Dallas on Thursday night provided a “target of opportunity” and he made a decision to “kill as many as he could”, police said.
Police and demonstrators had originally agreed that the protest would be static, in one place, but then people spontaneously started marching.
At Parkland, doctors recounted the night.
Five officers were fatally shot in the attacks, and at least nine officers and two civilians were wounded.
Davis and his associates insist on peaceful protests as a means to an end, and indeed, most protests across the USA have gone on without a hint of violence. He said he’s close to mandating counseling services for all his officers. “We’re hiring”, Brown said.
When Johnson was accused of sexual harassment by a female soldier in Afghanistan, he was sent back to the US with the recommendation he receive an “other than honorable” discharge, but he later got an honorable discharge, said Bradford Glendening, a military lawyer. Police took them out of the building on Friday morning.
Dr. Alex Eastman, the director of the hospital’s trauma center who also is a deputy medical director with the city’s police department, said the shootings “rocked some guys to their core that I thought were unshakable”. The department was still working to understand what that means. Brown said he doesn’t want his own officers shouldering that responsibility because of “the fatigue factor”. Eleven officers fired weapons at the suspect and two officers used an explosive device.
The fact that Johnson had material for explosives and talked of using homemade bombs during a standoff with police before he was killed indicated he could have inflicted more damage with more time, said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
‘He seemed very much in control and very determined to hurt other officers, ‘ Dallas police chief David Brown told CNN.
“This was not an ethical dilemma”.
Two civilians, including a woman shot while protecting her sons, were injured.
In a separate news conference at Parkland Hospital, doctors spoke about treating the officers, some of whom died.
SLIDESHOW: Dallas Shows Support for Police After Shootings “My particular threat was a post from a private Facebook to our Dallas Police Department Facebook”, he said.
He was also singing while speaking with police officers, Brown said.
Police also say a Wisconsin man posted calls on social media for black men to gun down white officers, and a woman in IL is accused of threatening in an online video to shoot and kill any officer who pulled her over.
Micah Johnson went from being an extrovert to a “hermit”, Delphine Johnson told The Blaze website. The 25-year-old suspect was killed on the second floor of the El Centro community college by a bomb delivered by remote-controlled robot, after several hours of fruitless negotiations with authorities by telephone.
Meanwhile, Johnson’s parents said they are surprised by his violent rampage and noted he returned from an Army deployment to Afghanistan a changed man.
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His father, James Johnson said haltingly and through tears: “I don’t know what to say to anybody to make anything better”. “I just love Dallas and I love serving”.
