The Army says Micah Xavier Johnson, named as a suspect in the Dallas police shootings, served in the Army Reserve and did one tour of duty in Afghanistan. “The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers”.
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Police have found bomb-making material, bullet-proof vests, rifles and ammo while searching the home of the Dallas attack suspect.
He was killed by a robot-delivered bomb after the shootings, which marked the deadliest day for US law enforcement since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The Dallas attack marks the deadliest day for USA law enforcement officers since the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
A Dallas Area Rapid Transit and Dallas police cruiser sit out front of Dallas Police Department headquarters almost covered in flowers, balloons and other mementos serving as a makeshift memorial honoring the officers killed, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Dallas.
President Barack Obama called the Dallas shootings “a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement”.
“He threatened other bombs, and we felt that was the safest way to get in and it was”, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said. Prior to joining the Dallas police, Krol worked at a correctional facility in MI, but, Ehlke said, Krol still wanted to do more.
Johnson was a private first class from the Dallas suburb of Mesquite who specialised in carpentry and masonry. “We still have a job to do and the officers will go out and do that”. “All I know is that this must stop – this divisiveness between our police and our citizens”. Police said the suspected shooter ran from the scene but was later apprehended.
Will Krenn said he and Johnson both arrived at basic training seven years ago Friday.
“We normally wear those annually during Police Memorial Week to remember those fallen officers”, he said.
“We join in what everyone has said in our country this morning, that there is no place in our country for the violence we’ve seen this week”, Bowser said. Police said “others have identified him as a loner”.
The army sent him back to the USA, recommending an “other than honorable discharge”, said Bradford Glendening, the military lawyer who represented him.
“I just got out of the interrogation room for about 30 minutes with police officers lying, saying they had video of me shooting, which is a lie”, Hughes said.
In 2004, Thompson began working as an worldwide police liaison officer, serving as Chief of Operations for Southern Iraq. A fourth suspect, identified in media as 25-year-old Micah Johnson, was killed in a standoff with the police.
Johnson had no ties to terror groups, a US law enforcement official said, but on Facebook Johnson expressed an interest in black separatist groups such as the New Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam and the Black Riders Liberation Party, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which describes the organizations as “hate groups”. CBS News also posted the image of him on Twitter. “Other options would have exposed our officers to great danger”.
In Georgia, a man who called 911 to report a auto break-in Friday allegedly ambushed a police officer who had been dispatched the scene.
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“The Pig has shot and killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana!”. Carter said the first shot sounded like a firecracker.
