Black Lives Matter supporters condemn violence in Dallas

“I’m in route to Baylor Hospital, let them know I’m coming”, says one officer who indicated he had an wounded cop in his vehicle.

So bitter are these disagreements that President Obama himself weighed in to the debate on Friday after Dallas.

In a separate tweet, he said the “hands up, don’t shoot” rhetoric often used in “Black Lives Matter events” “is a lie” the media needs to dispel.

About 300 protesters faced officers in riot gear under heightened tensions.

Protesters on Thursday also gathered at the mansion of Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton in St. Paul, about 10 miles (15 km) southeast of where 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot by a police officer after a traffic stop on Wednesday.

Some took to social media to blame the killings on Black Lives Matter, and the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network appeared to strike a critical tone of the movement in a statement that said Sharpton “reaffirms his commitment that the movement must continue but that it must be anti-police misconduct, not anti-police”.

But it has to be said that, with American police – most of them white – gunning down over 500 people – most of them black or brown and most of them unarmed – in just the first half of this year, it was bound to happen that somebody, or some group of people, would decide to retaliate by taking revenge on the police. “What we want is for people to understand that there should be equality of justice”.

Obama, the man who once famously said, “There is not a Black America, and white America and Latino America, and Asian America – there is the United States of America”, seemed to have changed his mind.

White Democrats are as supportive of movement as Blacks, says survey. There were also two civilians who were injured. “We are fed up”, she said. “To side with our public servants trying to keep law and order amidst political agendas that clearly oppose that virtue is how the good guys win again”, she wrote.

Sterling’s family released a statement condemning the attack in Dallas. “I don’t condone the murder of innocent people, however, it is the leadership in this country’s responsibility to ensure that justice is applied across the board and the mantra of “all lives matter” is reflected in the way they conduct business in the justice system”. “But with a black man, we’ve got to shoot to kill”.

They wept, held signs and chanted, “Black Lives Matter”. In Washington, prominent African-American congressmen, including Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, joined the protests. “I think the name is right”, said Welch.

Roughly four-in-ten Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement: All told, 43% support the movement, including 18% who strongly support it. About one-in-five Americans (22%) oppose the movement, and a sizable share (30%) said they have not heard anything about the Black Lives Matter movement or did not offer an opinion.