Dallas police are in mourning today as the sniper attack that killed
five officers and one civilian sinks in. Seven other officers were
injured.
The gunfire broke out around 8:45 p.m. Thursday in the heart of
Dallas where hundreds of people had gathered to protest fatal police
shootings this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul,
Minnesota.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters the snipers fired
“ambush style” upon the officers. Mayor Mike Rawlings said one member of
the public was wounded in the gunfire.
One suspect was killed by a robot with a bomb that police sent into a parking garage. Brown said officers negotiated with the suspect and he “seemed lucid during this negotiation,” but he expressed a wish to kill white people, especially white officers.
“He expressed anger for the Black Lives Matter movement,” Brown said.
Three other suspects are in custody.
Brown said the police force had enough officers at the protest, but they were ambushed by snipers.
“If anyone else is involved in this… We will find you and we will prosecute you and we will bring you to justice,” Brown said.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said the city has had the fewest police officer related shootings in any large city in America.
“We are working hard to improve, and there’s always room for improvement,” he told reporters via live stream.
“I think it’s important for citizens to realize we want everyone to get their freedom of speech,” Rawlings said. “But the chief makes decisions at times that people could be critical of. If we’re all being critical of those things, just think about today, this is what we’re risking if we don’t do it right. These were peaceful protests until this happened.”
President Obama condemned the attacks in a statement from Poland, where he had traveled tor a NATO summit.
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