The protest was called to decry police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Tennessee this week.
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Local police and newspapers in the U.S. are reporting officers have been targeted in Tennessee, Georgia, Missouri.
None have been deemed credible, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says that there appears to have been only one gunman in the Dallas shooting, AP reported.
Local news is reporting the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says suspect, 37-year-old Lakeem Keon Scott, “acted alone” and was armed with at least two weapons, an “automatic-style” rifle, a pistol and a large amount of ammunition.
“Scott may have targeted individuals and officers after being troubled by recent incidents involving African-Americans and law enforcement officers in other parts of the country”, the bureau said.
The shooting victims are all white.
In Ballwin, Missouri a police officer is in critical condition after he was shot in the neck during a traffic stop late Friday morning.
Another officer was injured Friday in south Georgia after a man, who called 911 to report a break-in, shot the officer who responded to the call. The police department, still reeling from the aftermath of a massacre at a gay nightclub in the city that killed 49 people plus the shooter, would not give any details about the threat, citing security concerns.
The Ballwin police officer was walking back to his squad auto when the suspect got out of his vehicle and ambushed the officer with a firearm before fleeing the scene, an unidentified source told KSDK’s Jacob Long. Ballwin is located about 20 miles outside of St. Louis.
“There was no confrontation, no argument, no nothing”. Childress declined to comment on any possible motives of the shooting. Police described the suspect as a tall, thin African-American male wearing a gray T-shirt and blue jeans, and driving a blue Ford Taurus with IL temporary tags, according to KTVI. Bail was set at $US500,000.
So far in 2016, 34 police officers have been murdered in the line of duty, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, most by gunfire and others by vehicular assault.
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“You start to wonder”, Valdosta police chief Brian Childress told reporters.
