Thread: At least 11 officers shot, 3 dead after attack at Dallas protest

I see from photos published that there were (are) black cops present, hope none of them were shot because black lives matter.

Former Illinois Rep. Congressman Joe Walsh showing the Tea Party's true colors.

One more 'citizen' off to the happy farm.

White House: No Link to 'Terrorism' in Dallas Police Killings



Dallas police said a deadly ambush in which five police officers were killed at a protest Thursday was a "well-planned" attack carried out by a lone gunman. The White House said the shooting is unrelated to domestic or international terrorism.

The attack, which city officials labeled an "ambush," happened toward the end of a demonstration against the killing of two black men by white police officers in Minnesota and Louisiana earlier this week. A suspect in Dallas, who was later killed by police, told officers he was "upset" about recent police shootings, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said.

The U.S. military has confirmed the suspect, widely reported in U.S. media to be Micah Xavier Johnson, is a former Army Reservist who served in Afghanistan. Three other people, who have not been identified, are also detained in connection with the attack.

Cornered by police after the ambush, a suspect -- believed to be Johnson -- told a negotiator he wanted "to kill white people, especially white (police) officers," and said he was acting alone and was unaffiliated with any groups, Brown said during a news conference Friday.

The suspect was then killed by police in an intentional explosion after talks broke down. Police used a bomb robot to detonate an unspecified explosive device near him, the police chief said.

Later in the day, Brown said the investigation, however, has "revealed to us this was a well planned, well thought out, evil tragedy."

"We won't rest until we bring everyone involved to justice," Brown added.

Ambush

Seven other police officers and two civilians were wounded in the attack, the city's mayor said Friday morning. A lawyer for five of the wounded officers told the New York Times those officers were expected to recover.

The suspect told police they would eventually find bombs planted in the city; a suspicious package has been secured by the city's bomb squad near the site of the attack.

City officials originally said multiple "snipers" were involved in the attack, but details of how many people were part of the ambush remain unclear. The Dallas police chief said one of the detainees is a woman.

The other two suspects being interviewed, Brown said, were seen with camouflage bags, prompting officers to follow their car.

Video footage of the shootings shared on social media showed people fleeing the sound of semi-automatic gunfire. One recording showed a gunman shooting an officer.

Police had issued a photograph of an armed black man in camouflage dress who attended the demonstration as "a person of interest" in Thursday's shooting. The man later turned himself in to authorities, who determined he was not involved in the shootings.

Parts of downtown Dallas remained cordoned off Friday as law enforcement officials investigate the shooting, which marks the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has asked people who work in the downtown area where the shootings occurred to stay away Friday.

Obama, Lynch condemn shootings

U.S. President Barack Obama called the shootings a "vicious, calculated and despicable attack" on officers who were performing their jobs. He ordered American flags be lowered to half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds for four days in honor of the dead and wounded.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Department of Justice will provide any assistance needed in the Dallas investigation.

"Do not let this week precipitate a new normal in this country," she told reporters during a news conference Friday.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Friday also said the shooter had no known links to international terrorist organizations. He added, "Violence is never the answer. Violence directed at our police officers is never the answer."

White House: No Link to 'Terrorism' in Dallas Police Killings

Looks like a Black Panther crazy in the right hand photo.

well it was bound to happen with all the racist cops and black profiling by the Nazi police in the US

and it will happen again, sadly

the government needs to make exampes out of those trigger happy shooting cops,

well at least this shooting needs to bring on the table the national debate about police violence and police racism, and possibly the procedure about using their guns

i am surprised it took so long for this to happen.

when the unrestrained, loud, intimidating, competitive, macho demeanor of the american white male meets the aggressive, in your face, surly, confrontational swagger of the american black male, you know trouble is not far away.

It would seem that it is a dangerous business being a cop in the US, for instance so far this year 26 have been killed by gunfire well up on the yearly average of 27 over the last ten years.
Source: In the line of duty: How often are US police killed? - BBC News

Knowing this it is little wonder that they dont take chances when they know someone who is a suspect in a crime is carrying a gun.

i seem to remember not long ago there was a protest over a black man being shot by police, he was described as 'a good boy who looked after his mama'

Turned out he had several convictions for violence and robbery, was 6'4 over 250lb, had just walked out of a shop he had robbed at gunpoint and was threatening the lone cop who confronted him.

To put things into prospective have a read of :
America Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Gang Problem | Frontpage Mag

Part of that story :
Chicago's murder numbers have hit that magic 500. Baltimore's murder toll has passed 200. In Philly, it's up to 324, the highest since 2007. In Detroit, it's approaching 400, another record. In New Orleans, it's almost at 200.New York City is down to 414 from 508. In Los Angeles, it's over 500. In St. Louis it's 113 and 130 in Oakland. It’s 121 in Memphis and 76 in Birmingham.
Washington, D.C., home of the boys and girls who can solve it all, is nearing its own big 100.
Those 12 cities alone account for nearly 3,200 dead and nearly a quarter of all murders in the United States. And we haven't even visited sunny Atlanta or chilly Cleveland.
These cities are the heartland of America’s real gun culture. It isn’t the bitter gun-and-bible clingers in McCain and Romney territory who are racking up a more horrifying annual kill rate than Al Qaeda; it’s Obama’s own voting base.
Chicago, where Obama delivered his victory speech, has homicide numbers that match all of Japan and are higher than Spain, Poland and pre-war Syria. If Chicago gets any worse, it will find itself passing the number of murders for the entire country of Canada.
Chicago’s murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2 rate, the Midwestern 4.5 or the Illinois’ 5.6 rates, but it does look like the murder rates in failed countries like Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. To achieve Chicago’s murder rate, African countries usually have to experience a bloody genocidal civil war or decades of tyranny.
But Chicago isn’t even all that unique. Or the worst case scenario. That would be New Orleans which at an incredible 72.8 murder rate is ten times higher than the national average. If New Orleans were a country, it would have the 2nd highest murder rate in the world, beating out El Salvador.
Louisiana went red for Romney 58 to 40, but Orleans Parish went blue for Obama 80 to 17.
St. Louis has a murder rate just a little lower than Belize. Baltimore has a worse murder rate than South Africa and Detroit has a worse murder rate than Colombia. Obama won both St. Louis and Baltimore by comfortable margins. He won Detroit’s Wayne County 73 to 26.
Homicide rates like these show that something is broken, but it isn’t broken among the Romney voters rushing to stock up on assault rifles every time Obama begins threatening their right to buy them; it’s broken among Obama’s base.

That is from 2012 but things havent got any better since then, if anything worse.

Originally Posted by pickel

Former Illinois Rep. Congressman Joe Walsh showing the Tea Party's true colors.

and how many are thinking like him,

anyway, sounds like a physical threat to Obama, let's hope the Secret Service go after him for being a "terrorist"

What we have here is a racist who by his own addmission wants to kill whites especially white cops. Never mind those he kills have never killed anyone much less a black. They are guilty, in his mind, simply because of their skin color. If he was truely the avenging angel for the victims of racially inspired police killings easy to find and kill them vigilanty style. End of the day he is exactly the same as the cops who kill blacks simply because they are black.

As I said in a previous post, until the reasons for the obvious racial divisions in the US are addressed and finally put to rest, racist cops and racist blacks will continue to justify killing.

Originally Posted by wasabi

Originally Posted by Baas Babelaas

Good job young man. Pity you didn't get more dead hits.

Is he the Nelson Mandela of Dallas, freedom fighter

On or abouts.

Cops found bomb making material and more armour and arms at the shooter's home. He wasn't just out to shoot honkeys, he was out to destroy.

In the UK, early 70s when police went to arrest a black guy
they'd go with a lil panda car and 1 maybe 2 officers; in a morris minor.
Now they travel in a big mini-bus with about
10, 12 officers all tooled up in riot gear.

Originally Posted by billy the kid

In the UK, early 70s when police went to arrest a black guy
they'd go with a lil panda car and 1 maybe 2 officers; in a morris minor.
Now they travel in a big mini-bus with about
10, 12 officers all tooled up in riot gear.

And now where I live and you describe the suspects in a 999 call as black, the police won't even turn up.

Originally Posted by wasabi

Originally Posted by billy the kid

In the UK, early 70s when police went to arrest a black guy
they'd go with a lil panda car and 1 maybe 2 officers; in a morris minor.
Now they travel in a big mini-bus with about
10, 12 officers all tooled up in riot gear.

And now where I live and you describe the suspects in a 999 call as black, the police won't even turn up.

Many years ago I walked a beat in Birmingham city, street robbery, muggings, armed at times were common, but no descriptions of suspects where released to the press.

Best I've read on the PC front comes from my home state, Victoria, OZ, rape of a jogger in Melbourne.
Height, build weight, with very white teeth, no mention that he was black.

America is divided by race, united by pain | Bangkok Post: opinion

That article from the New York Times reprinted in today's BKK Post should be read by all, particularly the bloodthirsty racists who have posted on this topic.

Anyone decipher "RB" in blood ?

Originally Posted by birding

America is divided by race, united by pain | Bangkok Post: opinion

That article from the New York Times reprinted in today's BKK Post should be read by all, particularly the bloodthirsty racists who have posted on this topic.

Is that that lunatic asylum escapee

Originally Posted by 12Call

Anyone decipher "RB" in blood ?

Robot Bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by wasabi

Originally Posted by birding

America is divided by race, united by pain | Bangkok Post: opinion

That article from the New York Times reprinted in today's BKK Post should be read by all, particularly the bloodthirsty racists who have posted on this topic.

Is that that lunatic asylum escapee

And those who agree.

See what the lady who was shot has to say about the police, from the Los Angeles Times : She wasn't a cop and she wasn't white, but she took a bullet in Dallas while protecting her sons - LA Times

A snip from that story.
After she was shot, Taylor managed to grab her 15-year-old son, Andrew Humphrey, and push him between a car and the curb, shielding him with her body.
“I was just laying on top of him,” she said. “If it was going to happen to one of my sons, it was going to happen to me first.”
She watched police stream up the block toward them -- and the shooting. One of them shouted, “Is anybody hit?’”
Andrew yelled no, unaware that his mother was injured.
Taylor didn’t want to alarm him, and called out quietly to one of the officers, “Yes, sir, I’m hit in my leg!”
Police rushed over, most of them white officers, and jumped on top of Taylor and her son. “There was another one at our feet and another one over our head and several of them lying against a wall. And they just stayed there with us,” she said. “I had never seen anything like that before, the way they came around us and guarded us like that.”
Andrew was crying for police to move them, but they said it wasn’t safe.
As they lay on the concrete, pinned down by gunfire, Taylor saw another police officer get struck. She still doesn’t know if the two officers who were shot in front of her lived through the night.
Shielded her and her son from the gunfire while 2 of them were shot in front of her.

Dallas Police Examining ‘Every Lead' to Be Sure Gunman Acted Alone

Investigators in Dallas, Texas, are continuing to probe the background of the Dallas gunman who killed five policemen last week.

"Until we search every lead," Chief David Brown said Monday, "I'm not going to be satisfied" in ruling out that others may have been involved, to "make sure we don't leave anything uninvestigated."

He said police are examining 170 hours of video from cameras worn by officers, as well as footage from dashboard cameras inside police cars and video from retail store security cameras along the streets where the attacks on police occurred. In addition to the five officers killed in the incident, nine other police officers and two civilians were wounded.

Brown said 11 police officers fired weapons at Micah Johnson, and two others launched the $151,000 robot used to kill the suspect.

The police chief said it was "not an ethical dilemma for me" to use the robot to kill Johnson, apparently the first time a U.S. police force has used such a tactic to end a criminal rampage.

"I'd do it again to save officers' lives," Brown said.

"We're convinced that this suspect had other plans, and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to target law enforcement, make us pay for what he saw as law enforcement's efforts to punish people of color," Brown said.

Bomb-making materials and a rambling journal were found at Johnson's home during a search.

"The materials were such that it was large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area," Brown said.

U.S. law enforcement officials said Johnson did not have a criminal record.

In an emailed statement, the U.S. Army said Johnson was a carpentry and masonry specialist during his time in the service from March 2009 to April 2015. He was deployed to Afghanistan from November 2013 to July 2014.

Johnson left Afghanistan when a fellow soldier brought sexual harassment charges against him, saying he needed mental health counseling.


A surgeon's plea

During a news conference Monday, the black doctor who treated dying Dallas police officers nearly broke down in tears.

"This killing, it has to stop," Brian Williams, a trauma surgeon at Parkland Memorial Hospital, pleaded. "Black men dying and being forgotten. People retaliating against the people that are sworn to defend us. We have to come together and end all of this."

Williams said as a black man in America he faces a dichotomy of standing with law enforcement — one of his colleagues is a doctor who is also a police officer — but also feeling angst and fear any time he passes a police officer.

"I understand the anger and the frustration and distrust of law enforcement, but they are not the problem," he said.

"It's not just about that one night. It's about the racial undertones that affect all of this,'' Williams said.


Obama visit

U.S. President Barack Obama, who is visiting Dallas on Tuesday for a memorial service for the five policemen who were killed, has called on Americans to mutually respect fellow citizens, after the recent days of violence.

"Maintaining a truthful and serious and respectful tone is going to help mobilize American society to bring about real change and that is our ultimate objective," Obama said Sunday.

"I would like all sides to listen to each other," Obama said in reference to protesters, such as those involved with the Black Lives Matter movement and police organizations throughout the United States.

Obama said violence against police by anyone concerned about fairness in the criminal justice system does "a disservice to the cause."

Demonstrations have been held in many cities across the country in recent days, with some confrontations between protesters and police, who have made scores of arrests.


Johnson changed after military

The parents of the 25-year-old black Army veteran say he was a changed man after being discharged from the military last year.

Delphine Johnson, the mother of the shooter, Micah Johnson, told TheBlaze media site that her son changed from a fun-loving extrovert into a "hermit" after serving six years as a U.S. Army reservist, including a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan, where the United States has been engaged militarily for 15 years.

She and Johnson's father, James Johnson, said they could not pinpoint any particular incident during his time in the Army as transforming their son. Delphine Johnson said her son "loved his country" and "wanted to protect his country."

Yet she said, "The military was not what Micah thought it would be. He was very disappointed, very disappointed. But it may be that the ideal that he thought of our government, what he thought the military represented, it just didn't live up to his expectations."

Johnson's father said that his son, upon leaving the military, immersed himself in studying black history and learning about his heritage. The younger Johnson’s Facebook page, since deleted, featured pictures of a "black power" fist and a red, black and green Pan-African flag, both black empowerment symbols. The Facebook page also showed he supported the New Black Panther Party, a group that has called for violence against whites.

The family said he never exhibited any hatred of whites, but he told police negotiators during last Thursday's rampage that he wanted to kill as many white policemen as he could in revenge for the police shooting of two African-American men last week, one in Louisiana and one in Minnesota. The Dallas standoff ended when police detonated a bomb attached to a robot they sent near where he was carrying out his assault.

Johnson's father said he was at a loss to explain his son's actions.

"I don't know what to say to anybody to make anything better. I didn't see it coming," Johnson said. "I love my son with all my heart. I hate what he did."

Dallas Police Examining ?Every Lead' to Be Sure Gunman Acted Alone