Theodore Decker commentary | Shootings show growing divide between police, black community

According to Dallas police chief David Brown, tactical officers engaged one now-deceased gunman who told them he was “upset about Black Lives Matter” and the recent police shootings that killed black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Ms Osibona said she felt “compelled” to join the protest having followed the Black Lives Matter movement over the past year.

Police used crowd control measures including smoke, police spokesman Steve Linders said. The officers began to arrest people after the mob of more than 400 people began to surround police lines and throw rocks at them, RPD said.

Until this tragic week following the deaths of Alton Sterling, 37, and Philando Castile, 32, and killings of five Dallas police officers, citizens have proven to have double standards when it comes to Black lives.

After police increased their vigilance following the deadly shooting of policemen in Dallas, US law enforcement across the nation went on to arrest over 100 people protesting against police brutality and racism on Friday night.

President Barack Obama condemned violence against police Sunday and even said excessively nasty rhetoric against police can hurt the cause of criminal justice reform.

“There were people outside of the community I didn’t recognize”, he says.

My thoughts now are with the families, friends and colleagues of the police officers killed. “But I have to be honest: I understand why it was done”.

After the week’s insanity, Facebook chose to pay tribute to the countless victims of such incidents by erecting a Black Lives Matter sign outside of its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

“It is so important to show that it’s not just black people that are invested in this, but other minorities to stand in support of what’s happening in the United States”, she said. Too much drama, too many things going on, innocent people dying, innocent people being killed.

It doesn’t quite seem fair that even if the black men do everything the police say, they could still be murdered in cold blood. The suspect iterated that he is alone and is not affiliated in any groups. In this photo taken Thursday, July 7, 2016, a group of women light candles to form the letters BLM, for Black Lives Matter, before a vigil at the University of Michigan Diag in Ann Arbor, Mich., in honor of Alto…

As a black man and former police officer, I’ve often struggled with my two conflicting identities.

Some protesters cheered as one man shouted through a loudspeaker “we have locked down Brixton”.

“We have to do better as a culture”.

An inquest into his death three years later found police acted lawfully when they killed Duggan although he had previously thrown away a weapon he was carrying. What can we do to make it stop?