Police say at least 10 police officers were shot and at least five are dead after an attack by two snipers in downtown Dallas at a protest of officer-involved shootings across the country.
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Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings asked downtown workers to check with their buildings Friday morning before heading to what is “a very large crime scene”.
The fourth suspect exchanged gunfire with police during the standoff at a downtown garage and warned of placing bombs throughout the city.
Three people have been taken into custody in connection with the shooting, according to Brown – two from a auto that fled the scene and one who was captured in a parking garage.
The protest was one of several nationwide over the fatal police shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana this week that have prompted US President Barack Obama to make an emotional appeal for urgent police reform.
During the chaos of the Dallas shooting, police wrongly identified this man as the shooting suspect. According to the Dallas Morning News, he joined the department in 2009. “We lost touch with two of our friends just trying to get out of there”.
They said that man, Mark Hughes, had since turned himself in and was released. One civilian was also hurt.
We know that local law enforcement agencies are changing their response policies because of the Dallas shooting. “We are horrified by these events, we stand by the police department in Dallas”, Mr Obama said. Dallas police move to detains a driver after several police officers were shot in downtown Dallas, Thursday, July 7, 2016. He was an officer with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit police, and he became that agency’s first officer to die in the line of duty since it was formed in 1989.
“Anyone involved in the senseless murders will be held fully accountable”.
“We still don’t know all of the facts”. He said he was interrogated for 30 minutes and accused the police of lying about his movements.
The shooting happened as otherwise largely peaceful protests unfolded around the United States after the shooting of Philando Castile, 32, by police near St. Paul, Minnesota, late on Wednesday.
Burlington police officers will, for now, stop patrolling the city alone.
Rawlings, who said he spoke to a wounded officer, said Friday that the officer expressed sorrow at his loss and that he felt “people don’t understand the danger of dealing with a protest”. “They were just shooting randomly”.
“An intensive search” for suspects was underway, it said. That suspect is also in custody.
“We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was”, Brown said.
The snipers fired on the officers “ambush style”, Brown said early Friday morning. Video from the scene showed protesters marching along a downtown street about half a mile from City Hall when shots erupted and the crowd scattered, seeking cover.
Dallas police are searching for at least one shooter in the city’s downtown.
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The source tells us one of the officers has been taken to Parkland Hospital.
