Five Dallas police officer shooting were killed and injured seven on Thursday evening. A suspect in a lot was killed by the police.
Five Dallas Police Officers Killed in Tragic Shooting During Protest
At least one shooter paniced on the evening of Thursday, July 7, in Dallas police officer shooting, on the sidelines of a demonstration against police violence, which has caused the deaths of two African Americans in recent days. Five policemen were killed, injured seven and two civilians were hit. A few hours after the murders, an alleged shooter who had entrenched in a parking lot was shot dead by the police.
The death toll of twelve victims, five of which died, is the most serious recorded among enforcement law agencies in the United States since September 11, 2001 –when 72 officers killed were – writes the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, lists all the police officers killed.
The news is still piecemeal, but, according to local media reports, the shooting start on Thursday at around 8.45 p.m. (3 p.m. in Paris) towards the end of the protest, hundreds of of people took part in protest after the death of two black men shot by the police this week –one in Louisiana,the other in Minnesota. Several protest rallies were held held on the United States.
to an attack“like an ambush,” Dallas police officer shooting Chief David Brown said in a statementthat“two snipersshotten policemen from a height position during thedemonstration”:
This is followed by scenes of chaos, people starting to flee.”There were blacks, whites, Latinos, everyone. It was the protest of a mixed community. And there were shots out of nowhere. We felt like they were pulled on us. It was total chaos, it’s completely insane,” one witness reported.
How many suspects? What are their motivations?
It is still difficult, on Friday, to give a precise figure of the number of people arrested. The Dallas police officer shooting are staying very cautious about the number of shooters.
A man, identified in the US press as Micah Johnson, 25, was killed by elite forces, who used a remote-carcontrolled robot control a bomb after several hours of negotiations and exchanges of fire. Taken off in a parking lot, the suspect said he hadplanted “bombs everywhere”in the building and in the city centre. However, no explosives were found.
Dallas police officer shooting Chief David Brown reported at a press conference that the suspect was”an angry with the whites,” that he”wanted to kill whites, especially white policemen.” According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect had fought in the US military in Afghanistan from November 2013 to July 2014. He was a soldier, a masonry and carpentry specialist. He said he was not affiliated with any group and alone acting.
A statement that the authorities are taking with bail. Earlier, the Chief of Dallas police officer shooting referred to the presence of two snipers who“stressed and killed as many policemen as they could.” The authorities also referred to three arrests, including that of a woman, without giving details of their possible links with Micah Johnson.
Following their first investigations, US investigators excluded the terrorist trail.“Investigators have now publicly ruled out the possibility that the individual who perpetrated this horrible act of violence had any connection with a terrorist organization in the United States or elsewhere in the world. I don’t think there is a connection to a terrorist plotWhite House spokesman Josh Earnest, who accompanies President Barack Obama to the NATO summit in Warsaw.
Who are the police killed?
Four of the five officers killed were officers from the city of Dallas police officer shooting. Their identity has not been revealed, writesThe Dallas Morning News.
The fifth worked for the Dallas police officer shooting Area Rapid Transit (DART), a police department established in 1989, which provided its name: Brent Thompson, 43.
Barack Obama denounces “hate attacks”
Speaking from Warsaw, the US president denounced“hateful, calculated and despicable attacks,” for which there is“NoJustification”:
Mr. Obama demanded that the flags be sunny until July 12 across the US:
“Out of respect for the victims of the attack (…), I order that the American flag be flown at half-mast at the White House and on all public buildings, military posts and naval vessels. ”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon“demned the murder of five policemen”and also called for an“impartial”investigation into the deaths of the two shot dead by the police.
Dallas gridded, restricted flights
The centre of Dallas police officer shooting was plunged into chaos and on Friday remained a crime scene in which deminers, forensic experts and were active. SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) teams have been deployed in large numbers.“Inspections are under way to search for explosives. It will take time,” said a Dallas police officer shooting official.
The authorities gridded the city center, where the rally took place. They have not yet determined whether demonstrators could have been at the shooting or were complicit in it.
The mayor of Dallas police officer shooting asked the people to stay away from the city center on Friday:”It’s still a crime scene. We are in the process of determining how extensive the perimeter is. A map has been posted on the city’s website to show the perimeter to be avoidedand inform residents of the situation:
The civil aviation authorities have overflights of the city, except for rescue rescue.
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