“I didn’t see it coming”, Micah Johnson’s father James Johnson, 55, said while sobbing.
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Breaking down in tears, he said: “I don’t know what to say to anybody to make anything better”. “I hate what he did”, James said. She also told superiors Johnson needed “mental help”.
“What he did hate was injustice”, his mother Delphine Johnson said.
“He was very disappointed, very disappointed”.
Micah Johnson’s parents sat down with The Blaze’s Lawrence Jones on Sunday to talk about their son.
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. Full interview is set to air later this week.
Despite noticing a change in behavior, Micah Johnson’s mother and stepmother said they could not think of any specific event in the military that may have led to this behavior.
“The military was not what Micah thought it would be”, Delphine explained.
She said her son lived like a “hermit” following his return from the Army. “He wanted to protect his country”.
The Daily Beast further reported that, although he was effectively blacklisted from membership across militant black power groups, Johnson attended protests related to police brutality against black people and liked a number of black power groups on Facebook.
Sarah Preibisius, wife of Dallas Police Officer Justin Preibisius, kneels next to a memorial in honour of fallen Dallas police officers on Sunday, July 10, 2016.
Yet the photo supposedly showing Johnson’s lifeless body is intact, despite the pound of C-4 plastic explosives attached to the arm of the “bomb robot” sent into the second floor of a building to which the shooter had retreated.
Some have suggested the RB might be short for RBG, which stands for red, black and green, the colors of the Pan-African flag.
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Johnson told officers attempting to negotiate the end of the crisis that he wanted to kill white people, especially white cops. 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.
