‘Dallas shooter had planned a larger attack’

Since 2014, 111 people have reportedly been shot and killed by Houston Police while over the same period, 58 were shot and killed by Dallas police.

“We don’t know how the bombing aspects of his plans were going to play out, ” Chief Brown added, saying he had a “large stockpile” of materials.

The alert comes after five officers were shot dead by sniper Micah Johnson during a protest in the city on Thursday night.

That strategy triggered the debate over when it’s appropriate to use a robot to kill unsafe suspects instead of continuing to negotiate their surrender.

In Georgia, a man allegedly called 911 to report a break in and then opened fire on officers when they arrived. Dallas police previously said seven officers and two civilians were hurt in the attack.

A few miles down the road, the Lower Merion Police Department said its officers had heavy hearts but full bellies after another woman and her son delivered a stack of pizzas Friday. Worth noting in video from the Dallas shootings is how police officers, a lot of them white, ran towards the shooter not away, in an effort to protect the people in the march.

“I think about it every day that I was unable to save those cops when they came here that night”, he said.

Brown said it remains “undetermined” if Johnson also meant to target civilians.

A source told WFAA the shooter, Micah Johnson, had bigger plans but fast-tracked them after the recent police shootings of two black men.

Police said Johnson had been planning an even bigger attack.

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Funerals for Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens of the Dallas Police Department and Brent Thompson of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit police will take place Wednesday.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, speaking last week at the Emanuel AME church where nine worshippers were killed last summer, said bias exists in some police departments.

“We fully support free speech and rights of people to protest”.

Protester Timothy Maymon suggests police should be retrained to shoot to wound.

William said he is trying to teach his young daughter how to interact with police officers.

The police asked media to stop all live feeds around headquarters “for the safety of our officers”, the BBC’s James Cook reports.

Rawlings said the decision to use the robot was ultimately made by Dallas Police Chief David Brown.

Mr Brown suggested angry young black people in the United States join their local police departments and try to become “part of the solution”. “I hate what he did”, James said.

Police say two other posts about shooting officers were scrutinized. “I stand with law enforcement all over this country”.

Officers improvised the method in about 15 to 20 minutes, he said. The robot, which was attached to about a pound of C4 explosive, likely saved more police officers from being killed, Brown said.

Jenkins said Johnson had material for explosives in his home and talked of using IEDs during the police standoff.

Furthermore, police are now looking for clues to understand the meaning of the letters “RB”, written by Johnson in blood (from his wounds) on a garage wall, where the suspect had held under siege by officers for almost five hours.

Police in the US city of Dallas, Texas, stepped up security Saturday after a new threat was received, two days after snipers killed five police officers during a mass protest in the city. One officer was shot multiple times but is expected to survive.