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Dallas police shooting: officials identify suspect killed in standoff – live Dallas police shooting: officials identify suspect killed in standoff – live
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Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings has offered this explanation about the police detaining and questioning different suspects before determining that Micah Johnson was a lone shooter:
There were about 20 individuals in ammo gear, in protective equipment and rifles slung over their shoulder. When the shooting started at different angles, they started running. We started catching. That’s when we proceeded to start to interview them as we’ve started to unravel this fishing knot. We realized the shooting came from one building at different levels.
11.15pm BST
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Governor Greg Abbott said the suspect Micah Johnson has “received his justice” at a news conference at Dallas city hall just now:
To every man and woman of the Dallas police department … I want you to know you have the respect of a grateful state. And you have a governor who has your back. As it concerns the cowardice, it seems as though the sole suspect now has received his justice.
What will be important is to ensure there are now no other potential co-conspirators with this particular assailant. If there is, they will be sought. They will be found and they will receive the justice they deserve.
11.08pm BST
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Mayor: suspect was 'lone shooter'
Mayor Mike Rawlings, speaking at a city hall press conference now, confirmed that suspect Micah Johnson was a “lone shooter”, contrary to earlier reports citing multiple snipers:
Mr Johnson, now deceased, was a lone shooter in this incident. ... There was confusion with everybody running around. But this was a mobile shooter that had written manifestos on how to shoot and move, and he did that. He did his damage. But we did damage to him as well. We believe now that the city is safe and the suspect is dead. We can move on to healing.
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Watch Texas governor Greg Abbott’s press conference live here:
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Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick has backtracked from his earlier comments calling protesters “hypocrites” for seeking police shelter when they began hearing shots during. He told CNN:
Maybe it’s the wrong choice of words. I’ve seen a lot of death in the last 12 hours.
He added that he’d seen four bodies on gurneys last night in the hospital. “What we have seen throughout the last several years is rhetoric geared towards police officers,” Patrick continued. “I just though the irony last night was there was a protest. ... We’ve seen protest after protest where it’s been very general after police in general. What we saw last night was that the police officers turned around and protected those people and did their duty and they died doing it.”
Here are his original comments on Fox News that sparked significant backlash online:
I do blame people on social media with their hatred towards police,” Patrick said on Fox News. I do blame former Black Lives Matter protests, last night was peaceful, others have not been. All those protesters last night, they ran the other way expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. What hypocrites!
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Officers targeted in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri, police sayOfficers targeted in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri, police say
Police say that officers have been “targeted” in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri in the aftermath of the Dallas shootings, according to the Associated Press:Police say that officers have been “targeted” in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri in the aftermath of the Dallas shootings, according to the Associated Press:
The attack in Tennessee occurred hours before the killing of five police officers in Dallas on Thursday night during a protest. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the attacker told authorities that he was frustrated by the recent killings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.The attack in Tennessee occurred hours before the killing of five police officers in Dallas on Thursday night during a protest. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the attacker told authorities that he was frustrated by the recent killings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Police have not disclosed a motive in Friday’s attacks in Georgia and Missouri, which have been described as ambushes.Police have not disclosed a motive in Friday’s attacks in Georgia and Missouri, which have been described as ambushes.
In a fourth attack early Friday, a motorist fired at a police car as the officer drove by. In all, four officers were wounded. The officer wounded outside St. Louis is in critical but stable condition. The wounded officers are expected to survive.In a fourth attack early Friday, a motorist fired at a police car as the officer drove by. In all, four officers were wounded. The officer wounded outside St. Louis is in critical but stable condition. The wounded officers are expected to survive.
#BREAKING TBI: Man who opened fire in Bristol, TN was mad about police shooting black people https://t.co/Vxpc83RqvH pic.twitter.com/qbilxcXgoP#BREAKING TBI: Man who opened fire in Bristol, TN was mad about police shooting black people https://t.co/Vxpc83RqvH pic.twitter.com/qbilxcXgoP
In Ballwin, outside of St Louis:In Ballwin, outside of St Louis:
I've just arrived at scene of #Ballwin officer shooting. Heavy police presence on New Ballwin Rd @ksdknews pic.twitter.com/p5kRJrzuZZI've just arrived at scene of #Ballwin officer shooting. Heavy police presence on New Ballwin Rd @ksdknews pic.twitter.com/p5kRJrzuZZ
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Police: Suspect embraced "radical form of Afrocentrism"Police: Suspect embraced "radical form of Afrocentrism"
Dallas police have just released new information on the investigation into the 25-year-old suspect Micah Johnson, who officials claim embraced a “a radical form of Afrocentrism”, according to his Facebook. Police said in its new statement that Johnson also used different names on social media:Dallas police have just released new information on the investigation into the 25-year-old suspect Micah Johnson, who officials claim embraced a “a radical form of Afrocentrism”, according to his Facebook. Police said in its new statement that Johnson also used different names on social media:
The suspect has no criminal history. Information provided through the course of the investigation, indicates that the suspect was an Army veteran and others have identified him as a loner. The suspect’s Facebook account included the following names and information: Fahed Hassen, Richard GRIFFIN aka Professor Griff, GRIFFIN embraces a radical form of Afrocentrism, and GRIFFIN wrote a book A Warriors Tapestry.The suspect has no criminal history. Information provided through the course of the investigation, indicates that the suspect was an Army veteran and others have identified him as a loner. The suspect’s Facebook account included the following names and information: Fahed Hassen, Richard GRIFFIN aka Professor Griff, GRIFFIN embraces a radical form of Afrocentrism, and GRIFFIN wrote a book A Warriors Tapestry.
Some other details from the ongoing police investigation:Some other details from the ongoing police investigation:
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An impromptu memorial has popped up at the scene of the Dallas shooting to commemorate the lives of the five police officers killed last night.An impromptu memorial has popped up at the scene of the Dallas shooting to commemorate the lives of the five police officers killed last night.
Memorial beginning to grow outside shooting scene in downtown Dallas. @NBCDFW pic.twitter.com/h9O1F0tUv4Memorial beginning to grow outside shooting scene in downtown Dallas. @NBCDFW pic.twitter.com/h9O1F0tUv4
Growing memorial just outside shooting scene in downtown Dallas. @NBCDFW pic.twitter.com/wfmmBXNvBBGrowing memorial just outside shooting scene in downtown Dallas. @NBCDFW pic.twitter.com/wfmmBXNvBB
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Clinton on Dallas shooting and racism in police forcesClinton on Dallas shooting and racism in police forces
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton called for “more love and kindness” in light of the Dallas shootings last night and the deaths of black men at the hands of police earlier this week.Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton called for “more love and kindness” in light of the Dallas shootings last night and the deaths of black men at the hands of police earlier this week.
“This is deeply troubling and it should worry every single American. We’ve got to do a lot more to listen to one another, respect one another,” Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.“This is deeply troubling and it should worry every single American. We’ve got to do a lot more to listen to one another, respect one another,” Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Clinton said the week was a “call to action” to implement her plans for national comprehensive guidelines into the use of deadly force by police officers, and also to encourage people to better respect and support police.Clinton said the week was a “call to action” to implement her plans for national comprehensive guidelines into the use of deadly force by police officers, and also to encourage people to better respect and support police.
“Those police officers were protecting a peaceful protest... a hallmark of America. Let’s start understanding, putting ourselves in each others shoes again and coming together as Americans to end this terrible violence.”“Those police officers were protecting a peaceful protest... a hallmark of America. Let’s start understanding, putting ourselves in each others shoes again and coming together as Americans to end this terrible violence.”
Clinton also spoke out about the “systematic racism” in some of the 18,000 police forces across the United States against people of color.Clinton also spoke out about the “systematic racism” in some of the 18,000 police forces across the United States against people of color.
“I would call for white people like myself to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have ‘the talk’ about how to really protect themselves when they should be being protected,” said Clinton. “I’m going to be talking to white people, I think we’re the ones who have to listen to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American neighbors.”“I would call for white people like myself to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have ‘the talk’ about how to really protect themselves when they should be being protected,” said Clinton. “I’m going to be talking to white people, I think we’re the ones who have to listen to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American neighbors.”
“We need communities to feel they can trust police... that’s going to take a lot more community and bridge building and training on behalf of our police officers,” said Clinton, noting that many police forces were small and struggled with funding and training.“We need communities to feel they can trust police... that’s going to take a lot more community and bridge building and training on behalf of our police officers,” said Clinton, noting that many police forces were small and struggled with funding and training.
“We’ve got to start respecting and treating each other with the dignity every person deserves,” said Clinton.“We’ve got to start respecting and treating each other with the dignity every person deserves,” said Clinton.
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Smith & Wesson stock jumps after Dallas shootingSmith & Wesson stock jumps after Dallas shooting
Jana KasperkevicJana Kasperkevic
Business reporter Jana Kasperkevic on gun manufacturers:Business reporter Jana Kasperkevic on gun manufacturers:
Smith & Wesson stock opened near an all-time high on Friday after five police officers were killed and seven were injured in a shooting in Dallas. The gunmaker’s stock opened at $29.75 a share.Smith & Wesson stock opened near an all-time high on Friday after five police officers were killed and seven were injured in a shooting in Dallas. The gunmaker’s stock opened at $29.75 a share.
Earlier this year, the stock hit a record high on 18 March, trading at $30.44 a share. That day it closed at an all-time high of $29.37.Earlier this year, the stock hit a record high on 18 March, trading at $30.44 a share. That day it closed at an all-time high of $29.37.
Stocks for Smith & Wesson rose about 3% on Friday while stocks for fellow firearm manufacturer Sturm Ruger went up by 5%. The shares surged in anticipation of higher gun sales due to fears of stricter gun control policies following the worst mass shooting of police in US history.Stocks for Smith & Wesson rose about 3% on Friday while stocks for fellow firearm manufacturer Sturm Ruger went up by 5%. The shares surged in anticipation of higher gun sales due to fears of stricter gun control policies following the worst mass shooting of police in US history.
In addition to shares of gunmakers, shares of Taser and Digital Ally also surged on the news. The two companies make wearable video cameras worn by US police, and Taser also makes electroshock weapons used by some police.In addition to shares of gunmakers, shares of Taser and Digital Ally also surged on the news. The two companies make wearable video cameras worn by US police, and Taser also makes electroshock weapons used by some police.
Read the rest of the article here.Read the rest of the article here.
Related: Smith & Wesson stock opens near record high after Dallas shootingRelated: Smith & Wesson stock opens near record high after Dallas shooting
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Police dispatch calls from Thursday night’s deadly shooting in Dallas, in which five officers were killed and seven injured. In the audio, police officers are heard making frantic calls as they pursue at least one suspect in the shooting which occurred at a rally held against police violencePolice dispatch calls from Thursday night’s deadly shooting in Dallas, in which five officers were killed and seven injured. In the audio, police officers are heard making frantic calls as they pursue at least one suspect in the shooting which occurred at a rally held against police violence
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The father of Patrick Zamarripa, one of the police officers who was killed in Dallas last night, posted on Facebook this morning about the loss of his son.The father of Patrick Zamarripa, one of the police officers who was killed in Dallas last night, posted on Facebook this morning about the loss of his son.
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What we know about shootings of police in Dallas, Texas
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Pastor at vigil: “We refuse to hate each other”.
We know a lot of you will be out at vigils for the victims in Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas this weekend. While you’re there, send us what you’re seeing. We’ll feature a selection of contributions in our coverage.
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In Dallas, an impromptu memorial in front of police headquarters draws dozens of bouquets of flowers.
Two squad cars have been set up as #memorial in front of #DallasPolice HQ & @dartmedia. #PrayForDallas #PrayForDart pic.twitter.com/VYDXlcQ1I8
And reports are also indicating that blood donations in the city have soared.
.@RedCrossDFW has set up a blood drive in the lobby of City Hall, and is booked! Not taking any new appointments. pic.twitter.com/waCZkiyPMo
8.12pm BST
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Gary Younge
While we wait for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to speak, The Guardian’s Gary Young has offered us three points to remember about yesterday’s events in Dallas, Texas.
In a country where it’s easier to obtain a semi-automatic gun than to obtain healthcare, a fragile mind can wreak havoc on a fragile political culture. So it was on Thursday night when a shooter opened fire on police at a Black Lives Matter demonstration killing five officers and wounding at least seven others.
Even as events in Dallas unfold there are three key things one can say. The first is that these murders are vile and should be unequivocally condemned. They can in no way be understood or excused as retaliation for the well-publicised recent incidents of police shootings of African Americans. Indeed the effect of such individual acts of violence is not to support the movement against racism but sabotage it. Its enemies will smear it by association; potential allies will be more wary; those within it will be more cautious. Those believed responsible should be found, charged and prosecuted. This is the appropriate response when people cavalierly and wantonly take the life of another. Anything less would lack justice.
Which brings us to the second point. Justice is indivisible. If it is accorded to some and not others it is not justice but privilege. That is why these horrific assassinations should in no way diminish the urgency or importance of the issue of police killings of African Americans or undermine the Black Lives Matter movement.
Dallas police have described the demonstration where these shootings occurred as “peaceful”. Since Black Lives Matter seized the popular imagination two years ago, it has had no history of making organised violent attacks on the police. Demonstrations have periodically turned into clashes with police, and even riots. But those have been spontaneous moments in collective protest – at times provoked by police themselves – none of which has lead to further fatalities. They have not been the work of an individual or small cabal whose primary intent was murder. On the question of nonviolence there is nothing one could say about Black Lives Matter that could not be said about Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement, whose detractors sought to discredit it whenever violence attached itself to its cause.”
Read more about Dallas, police killings and Black Lives Matter protests by Gary Younge.
7.51pm BST
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is expected to appear on CNN within about a half-hour.
She canceled an event in Pennsylvania earlier today, as a result of the mass shooting in Dallas, Texas. Clinton is also scheduled to speak at the African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference in Philadelphia at 6:3opm ET.
I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families & all who serve with them. -H
7.38pm BST
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Repercussions from the attack in Dallas, a mass shooting that killed five police officers and injured seven more people, have rippled outward to Cleveland, Ohio.
There, the Republican National Convention security chief announced enhanced security for the RNC this month.
BREAKING: Cleveland tightens security plan for Republican National Convention after #Dallas attack - security chief
7.31pm BST
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Tom Dart
From what is believed to be alleged Dallas shooter Micah Johnson’s home in Mesquite, Tom Dart has given us this look at the scene:
On Friday morning, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agents and local police were at the house where Johnson seemingly lived with his mother. The road was blocked off at both ends by police and a crowd of neighbors, and media, gathered in a field opposite the home, a large two-story structure on a well-kept street in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, a half-hour drive of the shooting scene in downtown Dallas.
A neighbor, Jowanda Alexander, said that she met Johnson once, about five or six months ago, when he came round to complain about her daughter, saying she was “messing with his mailbox”. She said that he was polite: “when he came he didn’t come aggressive, just real gentle and he seemed real nervous,” she said. Alexander described the area as a nice, diverse, place. “My heart is about to jump out of my chest,” she said. “It’s scary because you just never know who your neighbors are.”
“It’s quiet, everybody minds their own business. You don’t hardly know whether anybody’s home or not,” said Falonda Johnson, who lives in a nearby street. “It’s normally pretty safe round here.”
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New information has also emerged about an alleged shooter, Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old Mesquite, Texas resident.
Johnson was an Afghanistan war veteran with no known terrorism ties or criminal record. Earlier today, Dallas police chief David Brown said Johnson told police during negotiations that he wanted to, “kill white people, especially white officers.”
Spencer Ackerman and Amber Jamieson bring us more detail about Johnson, a man allegedly behind the attack.
The man killed by police after five officers were murdered in Dallas on Thursday night was a veteran of the Afghanistan war, the US army has confirmed.
Three suspects remain in police custody, but one was killed during the confrontation by an explosive device set off by a police robot.
The dead suspect is Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25-year-old resident of the Dallas area, law enforcement and government sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press and Reuters.
Johnson, an enlisted US army reservist, deployed to Afghanistan in November 2013 and served there until July 2014, according to his service record, released by the US army on Friday. He was an engineer, and a carpentry and masonry specialist.
His rank was private first class, earned the year after his March 2009 enlistment. He left the military in April 2015 after serving in the 420th Engineer Brigade in Seagoville, Texas.
Johnson had no known ties to terrorism and no criminal record, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to CNN.
On his Facebook page, which has been taken down, his profile picture showed him wearing an African dashiki shirt and raising his fist in a black power salute. Other pictures showed him dressed in military uniform.
During negotiations with police following the shootout in Dallas, he “said he was upset about Black Lives Matter”, Dallas police chief David Brown told the media. “The suspect said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. The suspect said that he was not affiliated with any groups and he stated that he did this alone.”
One of the organizers of the Dallas protest, Pastor Jeff Hood, said he did not recognize Johnson and had never heard of him.
Around a half dozen police vehicles were parked outside what was believed to be Johnson’s home in Mesquite, Texas, on Friday, according to the AP. Investigators were seen walking in and out of the two-story brick home located in the suburbs of Dallas.
On the Facebook page of Delphene Johnson, 49, who is believed to be Micah’s mother, friends and family had left messages saying they send their prayers. A photo posted in 2010 by his mother, captioned “my first born Micah at 2”, showed a small, smiling boy dressed in a green and white baseball shirt and blue jeans.
In another photo posted in 2010, a teenage boy in a blue polo shirt sits in front of an old car, with the caption “Micah chilin on the cruise”.
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Joanna Walters
We are also getting more information about officers killed in last night’s attack in Dallas.
From The Guardian’s Joanna Walters, here’s more about the third deceased police officers to be identified as a victim of Thursday’s shooting. Two more have not been identified.
Michael Krol became a police officer in the Dallas police department in 2007 after previously working in a local county jail system in Michigan.
Krol worked for the Wayne County sheriff’s office jail system from 2003-2007, according to a statement.
His uncle, Jim Ehlke, told ClickonDetroit that his nephew had a passion for helping people and that being an officer was his life dream.
“He got into law enforcement and worked really hard to be a police officer. He spent some time at the correctional facility. It wasn’t quite what he was looking for, so he worked pretty hard to find a job and got one in Dallas,” Ehlke said. “He was all in, he was all in.”
“We are saddened by the loss of the dedicated officers in Dallas – one of whom was a former member of this agency – and also the wounding of the other officers,” Wayne County sheriff Benny Napoleon said in a statement on Friday. “Those officers made the ultimate sacrifice and died honoring their oaths to protect and serve. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families and also the Dallas police department,” he added.
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The vigil in Thanks-Giving Square is, as we said, very well attended. Here’s a shot from The Guardian’s Jon Swaine, on the ground in Dallas.
Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas quickly filling up for a vigil. Mayor and PD chief expected to speak. pic.twitter.com/wl3PoRreu6