5 officers dead, 7 hurt in Dallas protest shooting

Police resorted to the bomb after hours of negotiations failed, Brown said.

The statement said three officers are deceased, two are in surgery and three are in critical condition.

In the wake of an ambush of Dallas police officers that killed five and wounded seven July 7, military experts agree the Dallas attackers used military maneuvers to kill as many police officers as possible. The sophisticated nature of the ambush against police indicated “some level of reconnaissance”, and may have required spotters for each shooter or even scouts.

The man also claimed to be working alone and said police would eventually find IED’s in the city. Brown added that one civilian was also wounded in Thursday’s mass shooting. Dallas Police Chief Brown says, “He has told our negotiators that the end is coming and he’s going to hurt and kill more of us – meaning law enforcement – and that there are bombs all over the place in this garage and in downtown”.

Emergency responders administer CPR to an unknown patient on a stretcher as law enforcement officials stand nearby at the emergency receiving area of Baylor University Medical Center, early Friday, July 8, 2016, in Dallas.

Live TV video showed protesters marching along a street in downtown, about half a mile from City Hall, when the shots erupted and the crowd scattered, seeking cover. Officers crouched beside vehicles, armoured SWAT team vehicles arrived and a helicopter hovered overhead.

Nearly as soon as the first shots rang out around 9 PM local time, activists irate over the deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, rushed to deny any part in the attack.

“Everyone just started running”, Devante Odom, 21, told The Dallas Morning News.

A police officer shoots a black man after pulling him, his girlfriend and his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter over for a broken tail light in Falcon Heights, Minn.

What they did not do was apologize for broadcasting an image of him, identifying him as a suspect in the murders of multiple police officers. “We lost touch with two of our friends just trying to get out of there”. The shooting, captured on a cell phone and posted on social media, spurred protests in some cities.

Rawlings said one of wounded officers had a bullet go through his leg as three members of his squad were fatally shot around him. We care so much about people protesting, and I think it’s their rights.

Speaking from Warsaw, Poland, where he was meeting with leaders of the European Union and attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit, the president asked all Americans to pray for the fallen officers and their families.