The suspect was killed by a police bomb robot. In all, 12 officers were shot.Johnson was a private first class from the Dallas suburb of Mesquite with a specialty in carpentry and masonry.
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The attack, which took place as a protest in Dallas was winding up under the watch of officers, was one of the worst mass shootings of police in US history.
“This was a well-planned, well-thought-out, evil tragedy by these suspects”.
Five days later, U.S. authorities say, he took part in the sniper-style killing of five Dallas police officers. “We can alienate people by overpolicing”.
During lengthy negotiations with police, the gunman told reporters he was angry about the Louisiana and Minnesota killings, Brown told reporters. The gunman was said to be targeting police, upset about Black Lives Matter and those two shootings back to back. Authorities initially said three suspects were in custody and a fourth dead.
Before dying, the police chief said, the dead suspect declared to officers that he was upset about recent shootings and wanted to kill whites, “especially white officers”.
A picture of a “person of interest” had also been released.
Johnson, who was black and served as a US Army reservist in Afghanistan, said that he was not affiliated with any group, but that he wanted to “kill white people”.
His service dates, as provided by the Army, are March 2009 to April 2015. “What we do know is that there has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement”, he said.
Mayor Mike Rawlings said one of wounded officers had a bullet go through his leg as three members of his squad were fatally shot around him.
“When Moore saw him identified on TV news today, ‘I thought, ‘My God, that’s the man who doesn’t speak to me”.
The killings have spurred nearly two years of periodic and largely peaceful street protests.
The Connecticut Police Chiefs Association ranks among the many active groups at the state Capitol – scouring every bill that could possibly affect law enforcement from police body cameras to tasers to excessive force to improving minority recruitment.
As officials condemned the attack, details emerged about the man who died after a lengthy standoff with police in a parking garage.
Ashton Woods, an activist for Black Lives Matter in Houston, emphasized that in Dallas not just the police were targets.
“Not only are we undertaking an oath for public trust, but we are also making a promise”, said an officer in a speech at the graduation.
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Local law enforcement say will be going about their duties as normal, but say this it serves as a reminder of how unsafe their jobs can be on any given day.
