Dallas police headquarters on lockdown after threat

Strong was inside the Dallas Police Headquarters building when officers received a threat to their safety. The department said on Twitter that the search was conducted “out of an abundance of caution”. It was unclear who reported the suspicious person.

Police used crowd control measures including smoke, police spokesman Steve Linders said.

The department said there was no formal lockdown.

More recently, a neighbor reported to investigators that Johnson had been seen practicing some sort of military drill in his backyard in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, said Clay Jenkins, the Dallas County judge, the county’s most senior elected official.

The explosive weighed about one pound, police said.

The president planned to visit Dallas in a few days and to convene a White House meeting next week with police officers and community and civil rights activists.

Still others simply stopped officers on the street to chat or offer hugs.

A Palm Beach Post reporter tweeted a photo of a protester shaking a police officer’s hand as the West Palm Beach protest disbursed.

For the President, that was grounds for optimism that the nation would move forward in a constructive way. He noted the scenes around the country were not akin to the polarized 1960s. “I got this, ‘” Blanton said.

He dismissed critics who suggested Johnson could have been subdued with non-lethal weapons such as tear gas. Johnson served as a US Army reservist for six years, including a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Johnson was deployed for about seven months in Afghanistan, from late 2013, and received an honorable discharge. Numerous police vehicles and armed officers were outside. Maj.

The Johnson family was not happy to have Daily Mail Online up in their business on July 9, when the outlet took pics of the family exiting James’ house.

Johnson’s last known employer was Jeppie Carnegie, who owns a home health care facility in Dallas.

“To be concerned about these issues is not to be against law enforcement”, he said.

It was the largest loss of life by a police department since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Four Dallas police officers and a Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer were killed. Two civilians were also shot.

Officers will likely replay memories of the chaos for the rest of their lives, one retired officer said.

Brown said as the standoff with Johnson continued, authorities “saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was”. Scott was wounded by police, arrested and questioned at a hospital, the TBI said.

“You might have 95% of the people who are good law-abiding citizens, I don’t care where you are, what segment of town you’re in”, he said.

Amateur video from Dallas appears to show a gunman trading fire with police. The deaths have fomented unrest from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore and heightened calls for greater accountability of police, particularly in the urban, majority-black neighborhoods they patrol. Dallas Police later said the headquarters was not placed on lockdown.

Gov. Mark Dayton has met with the protestors several times and said he will not order that they be removed.

“I don’t know how I’m supposed to be feeling, or what I’m supposed to be thinking”, said music teacher Nora Woolpert, she sat in the grass across the street from one of the blockades.

The man’s race and identify were not immediately disclosed.

Dallas officials are now certain the atrocity was the work of a lone shooter and not a group of coconspirators as initially feared. SWAT officers surrounded the building with guns drawn. The demonstrations protested Tuesday’s shooting of Alton Sterling, whose death was captured on cellphone video.