She was undergoing surgery early Friday after being shot in the right calf. He said police lied during a 30-minute interrogation, telling him they had video of him shooting.
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Leaders of the Black Lives Matter protest movement condemned the Dallas violence, but vowed to uphold planned weekend marches.
Williams says two of Taylor’s sons became separated from their mother in the chaotic aftermath. One said, “Sadly, this week the fragility of human life has been reinforced to all Americans through tragic events in Baton Rouge, St. Paul + Dallas”, while another read, “Our works need to be directed toward the peace, healing and reconciliation that will overcome divisiveness and violence in our country”. Other officers and at least one civilian were wounded. The Dallas Morning News reports he served with the department for 14 years. The shootings happened Thursday night in downtown Dallas.
Mayor Rawlings visited the wounded at Parkland hospital, the same hospital where President John F. Kennedy was taken after he was shot in Dallas in November 1963. This bloody week has got to be the start of a concerted effort to unite people behind law enforcers who risk their lives for us, to forge greater understanding between officers and citizens and to call on both sides to focus on shrinking the chances that encounters between them will turn deadly.
Still, Governor Greg Abbott and other officials said they were looking for evidence of any possible co-conspirators. Hughes turned himself in to police, and was released a short time later.
Police earlier had circulated a picture of a man in a camouflage T-shirt who carrying a long gun.
“He felt that people don’t understand the danger of dealing with a protest, ” said Rawlings, who spoke to the surviving officer. While Hughes was in custody, Cory Hughes told television station KTVT that his brother was not the shooter.
The suspect described his motive during negotiations and said he acted alone and was not affiliated with any groups, Brown said.
But he also acknowledged, more expansively than he has before, the view of law enforcement in such moments. It came amid protests over two recent fatal police shootings of black men.
Brown says authorities are not certain all suspects have been located. Footage from broadcasters showed the massive crowd facing off with dozens of police vehicles that were stopped on a local interstate highway. Police and others hunched behind cars outside a parking garage. He was the first officer killed in the line of duty since Dallas Area Rapid Transit formed a police department in 1989, DART said on its website.
The gunman, who killed five police officers and turned a peaceful demonstration into a scene of bloodshed, told authorities he was angry about the recent killings of black men at the hands of law enforcement.
DART officer Misty McBride was one of the injured.
The gunfire broke out around 8:45 p.m. Thursday.
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“He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm”, Reynolds said as she live streamed the shooting on Facebook.
