The aftermath of the shooting was live streamed in a widely shared Facebook video. Protests were held in several other cities across the country Thursday night after a Minnesota officer on Wednesday fatally shot Philando Castile while he was in a car with a woman and a child. "Turn to each other, not against," Lynch said during a brief news conference, adding lawmakers must take a "hard look" at gun laws.
Speaking from Warsaw, where he's meeting with leaders of the European Union and attending a NATO summit, Obama said justice will be done and he's asking all Americans to pray for the fallen officers and their families.ĭuration 1:35 'Do not let this week precipitate a new normal, in this country,' says Loretta LynchĪttorney General Loretta Lynch also condemned the killings, and called on Americans not to accept the recent violence as "the new normal." President Barack Obama said early Friday that America is "horrified" over the shootings.
Paul, Minn.īrown told reporters earlier that the shots were fired "ambush style" on police "to injure and kill as many officers as they could." CT Thursday while hundreds of people were gathered to protest fatal police shootings this week in Baton Rouge, La., and St. But by Friday afternoon, all attention focused on Johnson.
Rawlings said earlier that police swept the area after the standoff ended and found no explosives.Īuthorities initially blamed multiple snipers for Thursday's attack, and at one point said three suspects were in custody. "Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger," Brown told reporters. He died when police sent in a robot armed with an explosive, Brown said. He also told officers he was angry about the recent spate of police shootings. #DallasStrong /zKkzQUtkhT- the standoff that followed, Johnson told police he was upset at white people, and claimed to have planted explosives in the area, according to Brown. Texas Governor’s Mansion lit blue for next 5 nights in honor of our fallen officers. Rawlings declared that the city was safe and "we can move on to healing." He said the gunman wore a protective vest and used an AR-15 rifle, a weapon similar to the one fired last month in the attack on an Orlando, Fla., nightclub that killed 49 people. Police said Johnson had no criminal record, and investigators were analyzing the information contained in the journal.ĭallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said late Friday afternoon that Johnson acted alone. He was also an army reservist who did one tour in Afghanistan from November 2013 to July 2014, the military said.
Johnson was a private first class from the Dallas suburb of Mesquite with a specialty in carpentry and masonry.
Dallas shooting suspects video ambush full#
See full coverage from CBC News on the Dallas shootings.Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, died following a standoff with police during which he said he "wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers," police Chief David Brown told reporters in the aftermath of the deadly rampage. Johnson was killed by a robot-delivered bomb. An army veteran with a personal arsenal amassed at his home is believed to be the lone gunman responsible for the fatal sniper shooting of five police officers in Dallas Thursday night.
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