An investigator works the scene of an officer-involved shooting which prompted a lockdown at Dallas Love Field airport Friday, June 10, 2016, in Dallas.
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Numerous local news outlets are hearing reports that the baggage claim area was evacuated and all TSA security lines at the airport have stopped.
USA police have shot a man who charged an officer after attacking a woman’s vehicle with a rock outside of the Love Field airport in Dallas, prompting a temporary shutdown of the facility.
As of Friday afternoon, Love Field had the second-largest number of flights delayed of any USA airport after Los Angeles International, at 50 or 14 percent of its departures, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.com. Dallas police Sgt. Mike Beattie, who is stationed at Love Field, said Friday that the bullet that hit the glass wall outside the airport’s baggage claim area didn’t penetrate it because of the protective film.
“There were some folks in the security line who were startled, so they went through the security line without being checked”.
Planes were still landing at Love Field in the wake of the shooting, but no flights were taking off from the north Dallas airport. One distressed man carrying a large bag on his back put his hand on his head, peeked around a corner and said, “Oh my god”. He was arrested on a criminal mischief complaint earlier in the week and released on Friday. She had actually driven Diamond to the airport so he could fly the home of the East Coast, police said.
Suspect, named Diamond, attacked a woman & threatened the officer with large rocks.
After the woman removed bags from the auto Diamond started smashing the back window with a traffic cone and then used large landscaping rocks to break the vehicle’s other windows, NBCDFW reported.
Smartphone footage from the scene shows a police officer pointing his gun before opening fire, shooting at an unseen individual. The video has no sound.
The officer hit him with 4 shots and yelled at him to stay down.
Video posted by Instagram user @flashyfilms and credited to Bryan Armstrong shows people scattering outside a baggage claim door as an officer in a yellow vest trains a gun toward a baggage claim entrance.
The officer who shot Diamond has been removed from patrol duty pending an internal review of the shooting, Brown said.
In a social media video played on several broadcasters, five shots could be heard, followed by a volley of several more. He says the officer was able to get away before he was rushed again by the man. Blankenbaker says the officer then fired his weapon at the man several times.
Officials said one bullet hit an exterior glass wall and the rest hit the suspect.
A black vehicle with smashed windows sat outside Baggage Claim 3.
The man, who was not identified, was taken to a hospital.
Security checkpoint operations were back to normal Friday afternoon, airport officials said. When confronted by the police, the man told them, “You’re going to have to shoot”.
She says, “I crouched down on the ground”.
“It was super terrifying because I actually thought, maybe I should cancel the flight, just had no idea what was going on”, said Baraona.
Southwest Airlines, the dominant airline at Dallas Love Field, released a statement saying it was working with air traffic controllers nationwide to manage inbound flights.
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Love Field sees about 7 million passengers every year.
