The suspect who is dead was killed after a long standoff with police in a parking garage.
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In a subsequent update, authorities said 11 officers had been injured, and four of them had died of their wounds.
“There is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks or any violence against law enforcement”, Obama said.
Police said there are at least four suspects after snipers shot at least 11 police officers, killing five, in a downtown area of Dallas where protests had been taking place Thursday night.
“I can’t believe it”, Mr. Hughes told KTVT in Dallas. “How can we expect anything to be different when nothing changes”.
At one point overnight, a suspect was identified and his photo was published by nearly every major media outlet in the country.
It was the deadliest day for police in the United States since the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on NY and Washington.
The gunfire happened during protests over this week’s fatal police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota of two black men. He said he flagged down a police officer as soon as he was told he had been named as a suspect. She is expected to recover, according to WFAA.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown said one of the suspects was on a mission “to kill white people”. 6 officers are wounded.
PHOTO: Dallas Police shootingFriday, 3:35 a.m. The officers include Dallas Police and Dallas Area Rapid Transit officers.
Two snipers had fired from “elevated positions”, shooting some officers in the back, he said. The police chief said the dead suspect had declared before his death that he was upset about recent shootings and wanted to kill whites.
Brown said investigators are working under the assumption that all the suspects were working together. After several hours of negotiations, lasting into the early hours of Friday morning, officials exchanged gunfire with the suspect and “saw no other option” but to kill him by detonating a bomb, Brown said.
Police distributed a photo of a man they called a “person of interest”.
“Our hearts are broken”, the statement said. A third person, a woman, was also in custody. The package is being secured by DPD bomb squad. But just before 9 o’clock, officers with the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) were targeted by an enemy they couldn’t see.
Roughly 100 officers were in the area “to protect demonstrators and the surrounding area”, Rawlings said.
“An intensive search for suspects is now underway….”
“Were hurting, our profession is hurting, Dallas officers are hurting”, Brown said.
Another bystander, Richard Adams, said the protest was “a lovely, peaceful march”, until they were walking down Commerce Street near the Bank of America building parking garage when he heard what sounded like “a bunch of firecrackers going off”. “They are heartbroken. The entire city of Dallas is grieving”. “In times like this we must remember – and emphasize – the importance of uniting as Americans”, Abbott said in a statement.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the shooters, some in elevated positions, used sniper rifles to fire at the officers in what appeared to be a coordinated attack. The names and conditions of the other five injured cops have not been released. No one is in custody at this time.
At least two officers have been shot at a Dallas protest Thursday evening, according to KDFW. “We are sad to report a fifth officer has died”, the department said. The other three sustained non-life threatening injuries.
THE VICTIMS. Brent Thompson, 43, was the DART officer killed in Thursday’s attacks.
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Both are being transported to local hospitals.
