The demonstrations, echoed nationwide, followed the police killings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.
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Authorities identified the shooter as 25-year-old Micah Johnson, a US army veteran.
“We’re asking cops to do too much in this country”, he said.
Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens of the Dallas Police Department and Brent Thompson of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit police will be laid to rest on Wednesday. Declaring that policy wasn’t his job and he’s not interested in hypotheticals, the police chief told reporters that when legislators propose laws, he’ll comment on the specifics.
“We’re hiring”, he said. “Serve your communities”, Chief Brown said during a Monday news conference.
“Dead cops” chant in 2014 – has often been heated, online threats in the days following the Dallas shooting are taking on a new significance.
Brown called on protesters to “ensure their safety but not to be inconsiderate of the officers’ safety”.
As that work continued, the city tried to come to terms with the shooting.
The shootings occurred during a march to protest police violence against African-Americans. “We’ll put you in your neighborhood and we will help you resolve some of the problems you’re protesting about”.
The robot used was a Remotech Andros Mark V-A1, purchased by the DPD in 2008 for $51,000. “I’m not ashamed to say it”, Brown said, adding that the $150,000 robot was damaged but still functional.
During negotiations, Brown said Johnson asked how many officers were killed. “And that’s still in me, that keeps me going”, Chief Brown said.
He also became increasingly concerned that “at a split-second, he would charge us and take out many more before we would kill him”.
Brown said police will be reviewing more than 170 hours of video from police body cameras relating to Thursday’s shootings as well as surveillance videos from surrounding businesses. The videos will hopefully give officials a timestamp of the entire incident, Brown said.
Investigators were alarmed by the amount of explosives found in Johnson’s apartment.
“He knew what he was doing”.
Authorities “don’t know the scope” of Johnson’s plan yet.
“The person obviously had some delusion”, he said. “We’re all on edge, we are, and we’re being very careful”. Five officers were fatally shot just a few blocks from where President John F. Kennedy was slain in 1963.
More police arrived and opened fire, fatally hitting the gunman with 12 bullets.
Protesters faced off with police officers wearing gas masks on Sunday evening in Baton Rouge. Its number of wounded did not include any El Centro College officers.
After refusing to speak to the media, the family reached out personally to TheBlaze’s Lawrence Jones after seeing him on television.
As for the investigation, which has streets throughout downtown Dallas closed until at least Wednesday, Chief Brown says detectives are pouring over 300 statements and will determine which witnesses need to be interviewed again.
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Brown said it was “done by also protecting civil rights”.
