SWAT officers were dispatched to headquarters, and a police source said a lockdown was in effect, but that wasn’t confirmed in the police statement.
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At Dallas police headquarters on Friday, people had flocked to leave flowers and messages of sympathy for the slain officers amid an outpouring of support that saw crowds in the city line up to hug police officers.
During negotiations, he said he wanted to exterminate whites, “especially white officers”, the police chief said.
Tensions were still high Saturday in Dallas, where 20 square blocks of downtown remained cordoned off as a crime scene.
Johnson, 25, executed five Dallas police officers and wounded 14 others using an SKS semi-automatic assault rifle and a handgun Thursday night, after he ambushed an otherwise peaceful anti-police brutality rally in downtown Dallas organized in response to the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn.
The Dallas Police Department rushed to deal with an anonymous threat on Saturday afternoon.
Maj. Thomas Castro said since the shooting that killed five police officers two days ago, the department has received several threats. Sr. Cpl. His six years in the U.S. Army Reserve, including a tour in Afghanistan, were “not what Micah thought it would be … what he thought the military represented, it just didn’t live up to his expectations”.
The investigating officer closed the case just minutes after arriving at a strip mall.
The father of Dallas gunman Micah Johnson has spoken out for the first time saying: “I love my son with all my heart but I hate what he did”.
The attacks have clouded the future of Black Lives Matter, an anti-racism movement that has gained strength after the police killings of African-Americans but has also been criticised for vitriolic social media postings against police, some of them sympathetic to Johnson.
Demonstrators marched demanding justice for two black men shot dead by cops in Minnesota and Louisiana, their dying moments captured in video that went viral online.
DPD SWAT has been deployed to DPD headquarters after they received a threat which is being taken seriously.
UPDATE 6:05 p.m.: WFAA reporter Rebecca Lopez said police told her they were looking for one man in the DPD parking garage.
Police later found bomb-making materials, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal at Johnson’s home.
Funerals for Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens of the Dallas Police Department and Brent Thompson of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit police will take place Wednesday.
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“You are not seeing riots and you are not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully”. About 30 agents are involved in identifying bullet casings, said William Temple, the Dallas agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
