Brown said the suspect seemed lucid during several hours of negotiations after he was cornered by police at El Centro College, in downtown Dallas.
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Also, last week, a black man was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, La., then a black gunman who vowed to shoot white police killed five officers in Dallas during a protest in that city Thursday night. Both men were black.
Protesters were demonstrating against the shooting death Tuesday of 37-year-old Alton Sterling.
“So we can not let the actions of a few define all of us”, Obama said from Warsaw, Poland, where he attended a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit.
“The demented individual who carried out those attacks in Dallas, he’s no more representative of African-Americans than the shooter in Charleston was representative of white Americans or the shooter in Orlando or San Bernardino were representative of Muslim-Americans”, Obama said, referring to a string of mass shootings in the past year.
Officials described Johnson, who is black, as a loner who had no criminal record.
President Obama who’s travelling in Europe right now.
“At the end of the day, the system was trying to get me”, he said. “We just have to have confidence that we can build on those better angels of our nature”.
The events of the week prompted protests around the country Thursday, and Facebook Live captured an ambush on Dallas police officers that left five of them dead. The Dallas Transit agency cited “police activity”.
One of these critics, Greg Johnson, a stage technician, came into a convenience store with a colleague, Keelen Whitfield, during their lunch break.
Without giving any additional information, the DPD (Dallas Police Department) posted a picture of Hughes wearing a camouflage shirt and carrying a rifle on its official Twitter account with the caption, “This is one of our suspects”. He says protesters were peaceful and the shootings “terrorized them too”.
Still, he didn’t condone the violence.
Mr Whitfield said he hoped that the shootings, however brutal, might change things.
Micah Johnson was killed by a robot-delivered bomb Thursday after the shootings, which marked the deadliest day for US law enforcement since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
He was a member of the US Army Reserve from 2009 to 2015 who had served in Afghanistan.
Today, a search of Johnson’s home near Dallas turned up bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles and a personal journal of combat tactics.
In Dallas, hundreds of screaming demonstrators ran for safety as police officers patrolling the rally took cover, believing initially that they had come under attack by several shooters.
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.
Authorities say that during the traffic stop, Yanez approached Castile’s vehicle from the driver’s side and another officer approached from the passenger side.
Five days later, police said on Friday, the Afghan war veteran took part in a sniper-style ambush of police officers in Dallas, killing five and wounding seven others before dying in a police-initiated explosion.
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The violence was also addressed by United States tennis player Serena Williams after she won her 22nd Grand Slam title at Wimbledon on Saturday. I’m sorry. He’s gone. While I hope we never have to see another video like Diamond’s, it reminds us why coming together to build a more open and connected world is so important – and how far we still have to go.
