As for the investigation, which has streets throughout downtown Dallas closed until at least Wednesday, Chief Brown says detectives are pouring over 300 statements and will determine which witnesses need to be interviewed again. Arlington police declined to comment.
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Obama has ordered flags at half-staff 67 times in response to tragedies, more than any other president before him, and may address that grim record when he speaks at an inter-faith memorial service Tuesday.
Johnson and Public Enemy member Professor Griff.
“Whenever those of us who are concerned about fairness in the criminal justice system attack police officers, you are doing a disservice to the cause”, he said.
The sniper, Micah X. Johnson, was killed early Friday after hours of negotiations failed.
Johnson’s family said he used to want to be a police officer when he was younger.
The shooter was held at bay by law enforcement officials in a parking garage and was killed by a bomb delivered by a robot.
Protests against police violence toward black men have continued in Chicago for a third consecutive day.
“Serve your communities”, Chief Brown said during a Monday news conference.
Johnson insisted on speaking only to a black police officer when he began negotiating, Brown said.
Following his death, police raided his house, where he lived with his mother and her wife, and found bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics. “He wasn’t some novice”.
FORMER Army reservist Micah Xavier Johnson went to Afghanistan as a “gung-ho” patriot, but returned a sullen “hermit” obsessed with the black power movement, his parents have revealed. “He wanted to protect his country”.
“The military was not what Micah thought it would be”, Ms Johnson (49) told media outlet, The Blaze. “He was very disappointed, very disappointed”. Johnson, Brown said, “had been practicing explosive detonations”, and possessed enough equipment to “have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area”. He also liked on Facebook The New Black Panther Party and the African American Defense League.
James Johnson wept as he tried to understand his son’s actions Thursday in Dallas. “I hate what he did”.
“He wrote some lettering in blood on the walls, which leads us to believe he was wounded on the way up the stairwell”, Brown said, adding that police were trying to decipher what RB meant.
“We believe that he was wounded as he was going up the stairs”, said Jenkins.
“We’re asking cops to do too much in this country”, he said. In 2014, Brown said the murder rate was the second-lowest since 1930.
Even as officials and activists condemned the shootings and mourned the slain officers in Dallas, hundreds of people were arrested on Saturday and Sunday as new protests against the use of deadly force by police flared in USA cities.
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Previously, seven were reported, but Brown increased the total to account for two officers from El Centro College.
