Posted on Jul 8, 2016
Dallas shooting: 5 officers killed during protests against police
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(CNN) — Shooters killed five officers during protests against police in downtown Dallas, marking the deadliest single attack on U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001.
Gunfire rang out Thursday night as demonstrators marched against the shooting deaths of two African-American men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota.
A total of 11 officers were shot, Dallas police said. A standoff is underway as authorities try to negotiate with a suspect in a downtown garage.
It was the deadliest single attack on law enforcement since the 2001 terror attacks, when 72 officers died, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Here's what we know:
-- A total of 10 police officers were shot by snipers during the protests, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said. An 11th officer was shot during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect, authorities said.
-- Some of the six officers injured are undergoing surgery.
-- Brown said it's unclear how many suspects were involved, but three people are in custody.
Dallas shooting: 5 officers killed during protests against police
By Faith Karimi and Ralph Ellis, CNN
Updated 4:51 AM ET, Fri July 8, 2016
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People rally in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, July 7, 2016 to protest the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Black motorist Philando Castile, 32, a school cafeteria worker, was shot at close range by a Minnesota cop and seen bleeding to death in a graphic video shot by his girlfriend that went viral Thursday, the second fatal police shooting to rock America in as many days. / AFP / Laura Buckman (Photo credit should read LAURA BUCKMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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"It did look planned. He ... had ammo ready," witness says
A total of 11 police officers shot
(CNN) — Shooters killed five officers during protests against police in downtown Dallas, marking the deadliest single attack on U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001.
Gunfire rang out Thursday night as demonstrators marched against the shooting deaths of two African-American men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota.
A total of 11 officers were shot, Dallas police said. A standoff is underway as authorities try to negotiate with a suspect in a downtown garage.
It was the deadliest single attack on law enforcement since the 2001 terror attacks, when 72 officers died, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Here's what we know:
-- A total of 10 police officers were shot by snipers during the protests, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said. An 11th officer was shot during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect, authorities said.
-- Some of the six officers injured are undergoing surgery.
-- Brown said it's unclear how many suspects were involved, but three people are in custody.
-- Dallas police have been negotiating and exchanging gunfire with a suspect for hours at a parking garage in downtown.
-- "The suspect has told our negotiators that the end is coming," Brown said. The suspect also told negotiators more officers are going to get hurt, and that bombs are planted all over downtown Dallas.
-- Two of the shooters were snipers, who fired "ambush-style" from an "elevated position," Brown said.
-- Officers killed include one DART officer. DART, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency, operates buses and commuter rail in the city and surrounding suburbs.
-- DART identified the officer killed as Brent Thompson, 43. He joined the transit agency in 2009, and was its first officer killed in the line of duty, DART tweeted.
-- The Dallas Police Department circulated a photo of a man they said was a suspect in the shooting, but later called him a person of interest and said he turned himself in.
-- Witness Ismael Dejesus said he filmed the shooter from his hotel balcony about 50 yards away. He described the gunman as wearing tactical pants and a tactical shirt. He had a weapon with a "pretty big magazine," he said.
-- "He got out of there, walked over to the pillar, put a magazine in and started firing," he said. "It did look planned. He knew where to stand, he had ammo ready."
-- Retired FBI special agent Steve Moore said an attack of that magnitude required advance work.
-- "This was an attack planned long before-- waiting for an opportunity to go," Moore said. "I think there was so much logistically, ammunition-wise. They may not have planned the location, they may not have planned the vantage point. But they had prepared for an attack before last night's shooting is my guess."
-- President Barack Obama has been notified about the shooting, and a team is keeping him updated, the White House said.
Peaceful protest shattered
Witnesses said the protesters were marching peacefully when the gunfire started. Crowds scattered.
"In the midst of it, gunshots just started barreling out," witness Michael Jackson told CNN's Don Lemon. "I immediately started running the opposite way."
G.J. McCarthy said he thought it was fireworks at first. It got louder, and protesters realized it was gunfire.
"That went on for a while," he said. Crowds ran into a parking garage, then spilled out after word spread that there was a sniper nearby.
Clarissa Myles was eating at a McDonald's nearby when peaceful protests suddenly turned chaotic.
"Everyone was screaming, people were running," she said. "I saw at least probably 30 shots go off."
Two killings in two days
The shootings occurred as Americans nationwide took to the streets to demand answers over the killings of two black men in two days. They wept, marched and chanted "Black Lives Matter!"
Crowds gathered outside Gov. Mark Dayton's residence in St. Paul, Minnesota, miles from the spot where an officer killed Philando Castile in a car on Wednesday.
Hundreds of miles away, more protesters marched outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Alton Sterling was fatally shot Tuesday while police tackled him in a parking lot.
"We are targets," LaRhonda Talley said in an impassioned speech in Minnesota. "We made it across the transatlantic. We made it to freedom and you're still killing us. You're still hanging us from trees. You're still killing us. Our lives matter! My son's life matters. He matters to me ... just like everybody's son matters to their mama."
When can police shoot?
Minnesota shooting
As has become a horrible norm, both killings were captured on video and posted online.
In Minnesota, the shooting of Castile was remarkable -- and heartbreaking -- because his fiancee live-streamed it.
As their 4-year-old sat in the backseat, she calmly narrated the action and showed viewers the dying man groaning and bleeding in the front seat.
Castile, a school food services worker, was shot in Falcon Heights, outside Minneapolis, when a police officer pulled him over because of a broken taillight, said his fiancee, Diamond Reynolds, who was in the car with him.
"He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm," Reynolds said as she broadcast the Wednesday shooting on Facebook.
"Oh God, please don't tell me my boyfriend is dead," she later says.
Baton Rouge shooting
Sterling, 37, was killed Tuesday near a convenience store in Baton Rouge, where he regularly sold CDs and DVDs.
A homeless man approached Sterling on Tuesday and asked for money, becoming so persistent that Sterling showed him his gun, a source told CNN.
The homeless man called 911 and police arrived at the store. Police tackled Sterling to the ground, and shot him several times, video shows.
A law enforcement source told CNN that the officers pulled a gun from Sterling's body at the scene. No further details were provided on the type of firearm.
The convenience store quickly became the site of protests. Flowers and signs piled up in a makeshift memorial. Protesters chanted "Hands up, don't shoot," the line made famous in the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, about two years ago.
Tributes to men killed
As outrage grew over the shootings of the two men, Democrats came out as a group onto the steps of Congress to show their support for the victims.
"This is not just a black issue," President Barack Obama said. Celebrities urged action, and decried the killing of black men.
"It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they 'stop killing us,'" pop star Beyonce said with a link for fans to contact their lawmakers.
Most major cities, including Chicago and New York, held peaceful protests against police shootings.
Gunfire rang out Thursday night as demonstrators marched against the shooting deaths of two African-American men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota.
A total of 11 officers were shot, Dallas police said. A standoff is underway as authorities try to negotiate with a suspect in a downtown garage.
It was the deadliest single attack on law enforcement since the 2001 terror attacks, when 72 officers died, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Here's what we know:
-- A total of 10 police officers were shot by snipers during the protests, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said. An 11th officer was shot during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect, authorities said.
-- Some of the six officers injured are undergoing surgery.
-- Brown said it's unclear how many suspects were involved, but three people are in custody.
Dallas shooting: 5 officers killed during protests against police
By Faith Karimi and Ralph Ellis, CNN
Updated 4:51 AM ET, Fri July 8, 2016
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People rally in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, July 7, 2016 to protest the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Black motorist Philando Castile, 32, a school cafeteria worker, was shot at close range by a Minnesota cop and seen bleeding to death in a graphic video shot by his girlfriend that went viral Thursday, the second fatal police shooting to rock America in as many days. / AFP / Laura Buckman (Photo credit should read LAURA BUCKMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Bystanders stand near pollice baracades following the shootings.
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Police: Suspect said he's going to kill more
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Video from balcony shows Dallas shooting
People rally in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, July 7, 2016 to protest the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Black motorist Philando Castile, 32, a school cafeteria worker, was shot at close range by a Minnesota cop and seen bleeding to death in a graphic video shot by his girlfriend that went viral Thursday, the second fatal police shooting to rock America in as many days. / AFP / Laura Buckman (Photo credit should read LAURA BUCKMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Dallas shooting witness: People were trampled
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Story highlights
Suspect to negotiators: "The end is coming"
"It did look planned. He ... had ammo ready," witness says
A total of 11 police officers shot
(CNN) — Shooters killed five officers during protests against police in downtown Dallas, marking the deadliest single attack on U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001.
Gunfire rang out Thursday night as demonstrators marched against the shooting deaths of two African-American men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota.
A total of 11 officers were shot, Dallas police said. A standoff is underway as authorities try to negotiate with a suspect in a downtown garage.
It was the deadliest single attack on law enforcement since the 2001 terror attacks, when 72 officers died, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Here's what we know:
-- A total of 10 police officers were shot by snipers during the protests, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said. An 11th officer was shot during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect, authorities said.
-- Some of the six officers injured are undergoing surgery.
-- Brown said it's unclear how many suspects were involved, but three people are in custody.
-- Dallas police have been negotiating and exchanging gunfire with a suspect for hours at a parking garage in downtown.
-- "The suspect has told our negotiators that the end is coming," Brown said. The suspect also told negotiators more officers are going to get hurt, and that bombs are planted all over downtown Dallas.
-- Two of the shooters were snipers, who fired "ambush-style" from an "elevated position," Brown said.
-- Officers killed include one DART officer. DART, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency, operates buses and commuter rail in the city and surrounding suburbs.
-- DART identified the officer killed as Brent Thompson, 43. He joined the transit agency in 2009, and was its first officer killed in the line of duty, DART tweeted.
-- The Dallas Police Department circulated a photo of a man they said was a suspect in the shooting, but later called him a person of interest and said he turned himself in.
-- Witness Ismael Dejesus said he filmed the shooter from his hotel balcony about 50 yards away. He described the gunman as wearing tactical pants and a tactical shirt. He had a weapon with a "pretty big magazine," he said.
-- "He got out of there, walked over to the pillar, put a magazine in and started firing," he said. "It did look planned. He knew where to stand, he had ammo ready."
-- Retired FBI special agent Steve Moore said an attack of that magnitude required advance work.
-- "This was an attack planned long before-- waiting for an opportunity to go," Moore said. "I think there was so much logistically, ammunition-wise. They may not have planned the location, they may not have planned the vantage point. But they had prepared for an attack before last night's shooting is my guess."
-- President Barack Obama has been notified about the shooting, and a team is keeping him updated, the White House said.
Peaceful protest shattered
Witnesses said the protesters were marching peacefully when the gunfire started. Crowds scattered.
"In the midst of it, gunshots just started barreling out," witness Michael Jackson told CNN's Don Lemon. "I immediately started running the opposite way."
G.J. McCarthy said he thought it was fireworks at first. It got louder, and protesters realized it was gunfire.
"That went on for a while," he said. Crowds ran into a parking garage, then spilled out after word spread that there was a sniper nearby.
Clarissa Myles was eating at a McDonald's nearby when peaceful protests suddenly turned chaotic.
"Everyone was screaming, people were running," she said. "I saw at least probably 30 shots go off."
Two killings in two days
The shootings occurred as Americans nationwide took to the streets to demand answers over the killings of two black men in two days. They wept, marched and chanted "Black Lives Matter!"
Crowds gathered outside Gov. Mark Dayton's residence in St. Paul, Minnesota, miles from the spot where an officer killed Philando Castile in a car on Wednesday.
Hundreds of miles away, more protesters marched outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Alton Sterling was fatally shot Tuesday while police tackled him in a parking lot.
"We are targets," LaRhonda Talley said in an impassioned speech in Minnesota. "We made it across the transatlantic. We made it to freedom and you're still killing us. You're still hanging us from trees. You're still killing us. Our lives matter! My son's life matters. He matters to me ... just like everybody's son matters to their mama."
When can police shoot?
Minnesota shooting
As has become a horrible norm, both killings were captured on video and posted online.
In Minnesota, the shooting of Castile was remarkable -- and heartbreaking -- because his fiancee live-streamed it.
As their 4-year-old sat in the backseat, she calmly narrated the action and showed viewers the dying man groaning and bleeding in the front seat.
Castile, a school food services worker, was shot in Falcon Heights, outside Minneapolis, when a police officer pulled him over because of a broken taillight, said his fiancee, Diamond Reynolds, who was in the car with him.
"He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm," Reynolds said as she broadcast the Wednesday shooting on Facebook.
"Oh God, please don't tell me my boyfriend is dead," she later says.
Baton Rouge shooting
Sterling, 37, was killed Tuesday near a convenience store in Baton Rouge, where he regularly sold CDs and DVDs.
A homeless man approached Sterling on Tuesday and asked for money, becoming so persistent that Sterling showed him his gun, a source told CNN.
The homeless man called 911 and police arrived at the store. Police tackled Sterling to the ground, and shot him several times, video shows.
A law enforcement source told CNN that the officers pulled a gun from Sterling's body at the scene. No further details were provided on the type of firearm.
The convenience store quickly became the site of protests. Flowers and signs piled up in a makeshift memorial. Protesters chanted "Hands up, don't shoot," the line made famous in the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, about two years ago.
Tributes to men killed
As outrage grew over the shootings of the two men, Democrats came out as a group onto the steps of Congress to show their support for the victims.
"This is not just a black issue," President Barack Obama said. Celebrities urged action, and decried the killing of black men.
"It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they 'stop killing us,'" pop star Beyonce said with a link for fans to contact their lawmakers.
Most major cities, including Chicago and New York, held peaceful protests against police shootings.
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I was reading this and it said BLM was responsible. Is there any corroborating evidence to support that claim? I also read where a former lawmaker threatened "war" on Obama. Where is the Secret Service on this? Obama had nothing to do with either event, it was a case in both of piss poor training, lack of oversight by superiors, and a lack of care from the police officers themselves until it can be proven that the PD was fostering a climate like this.
http://www.cnet.com/news/after-dallas-shootings-former-congressman-threatens-war-against-obama-on-twitter/?ftag=COS-05-10-aa0a&linkId=26330618
http://www.cnet.com/news/after-dallas-shootings-former-congressman-threatens-war-against-obama-on-twitter/?ftag=COS-05-10-aa0a&linkId=26330618
After Dallas shootings, former congressman threatens war against Obama on Twitter
Technically Incorrect: As at least four police officers lie dead, former Rep. Joe Walsh takes to Twitter to threaten the president on behalf of "Real America."
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Why do people listen to crackpots like this and how are they elected to office? Cooler heads need to prevail.
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SSG Swan I find your expert critique of a situation completely pointless and uninformed. Please explain your expert analysis of "piss poor training" to include evidence of such and do be specific. Please also show cause for the "lack of oversight by superiors" and do be specific and sight references from the Dallas Police Departments response plan. (And by specific reference the plan's paragraph, annex and line number.) Also please show specific examples of the "lack of care the officers".
My guess is by your above statement you are in fact ill informed on all matters related to law enforcement and are attempting to paint the DPD as some type of racist organization. (Also please site specific examples of how you came to this hypothesis.)
Basically your making all sorts of accusations and probably have zero substance to back it up.
My guess is by your above statement you are in fact ill informed on all matters related to law enforcement and are attempting to paint the DPD as some type of racist organization. (Also please site specific examples of how you came to this hypothesis.)
Basically your making all sorts of accusations and probably have zero substance to back it up.
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My roommate and I (both veterans) have been following the news online and on multiple tv stations since it unfolded. We live in north Dallas.
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It is horrible when evil people set themselves up as snipers to target policemen charged with protecting the public during what is supposed to be a [peaceful protest. SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL I lift up the families of the officers who were slain in the line of duty and pray that God will comfort them in their shock, anguish and grief.
I hope that whatever group inspired this action will be taken down with a vengeance by outraged citizens.
I hope that whatever group inspired this action will be taken down with a vengeance by outraged citizens.
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