“I hope you understand that my brain is fried”.
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“I want to make sure there’s nobody else out there that had something to do with this, ” he said.
Policy makers, “do your jobs”.
“We can’t kiss, hug and make up until there is a rectifying of the structures of hate”, he said from the pulpit to roaring applause. “We’ll give you an application”.
“Initially, I was angry at anyone who would dare to do that in my neighborhood”, he said. However, the city’s politicians are working on fixing the issue, he said.
“Become a part of the solution”.
Moving ahead of the rally in a black Tahoe SUV, he stopped when he saw a chance to use “high ground” to target police, Chief Brown said.
“Not just from a police perspective”, said Ms Julie Gavran, the south-west director of the organisation Keep Guns Off Campus.
Brown said he wanted to avoid his own officers shouldering the responsibility of security for the president due to “the fatigue factor” following the events of the last week. “Not enough mental health funding, let the cop handle it. Not enough drug-addiction funding, give it to the cops”. Here in Dallas, we got a loose dog problem.
“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”, Diamond Reynolds said in her Facebook broadcast. “Policing was never meant to solve all of those problems”. “Every societal failure we put it off on the cops”. Last year the city experienced an “unprecedented 12th consecutive year of crime reduction, for a total of a 53 percent reduction in crime”, he said, noting that the reduction is bigger than any other major U.S. city.
During a Black Lives Matter protest march on July 7, Johnson opened fire on officers in downtown Dallas, killing five and wounding seven others.
“This tragic incident will not discourage us from continuing the pace of urgency in changing and reforming policing in America”, he said. “We are committed to community policing”.
Law enforcement officials say the Federal Bureau of Investigation began looking into Tannerite several years ago when it became apparent domestic terrorists were interested in using it for sinister purposes.
Tom Fuentes, a former associate director with the FBI, said the messages and the groups behind them should be treated the same way the federal government investigates ISIS.
A string of killings of black men by police in cities including Ferguson, Missouri, New York City, Baltimore and Chicago have given rise to the protests against excessive police force in recent years and prompted calls for better dialogue between police and communities.
“There is a heightened sense of awareness over threats we’ve seen all around the country”, Brown said at a news conference.
Brown was asked about his perspective as not only a black man but as a black cop in Dallas.
“It’s not so much a bridge for me, it’s everyday living”, he continued. “It’s my normal to live in this society that had a long history of racial, you know, strife”.
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Brown, who was not available for this story, then stressed that police were “being very careful in our tactics so we don’t injure or put any more of our officers in harm’s way, including the citizens of Dallas, as we negotiate further”.
