Funerals Wednesday for 3 of 5 slain Dallas police officers

Thousands of police officers joined by ordinary citizens attended funerals on Wednesday for three of the policemen shot dead in a racially motivated ambush attack last week that intensified America’s long-running debate on race and justice. The interstate reopened shortly after 9:15 a.m.

Northbound 161 near Gateway is now closed.

Funerals for two of the officers, Officer Brent Thompson and Senior Cpl.

Four Dallas Police officers were killed and funerals for two of them are also being held Wednesday.

After a Dallas memorial service, Thompson’s funeral will be at a church in Corsicana, the town south of Dallas where he lived.

“For a while the protest went on without incident – and despite the fact that police conduct was the subject of the protest, despite the fact that there must have been signs or slogans or chants with which they profoundly disagreed, these men and this department did their jobs like the professionals that they were”, the president said.

Hundreds of mourners on Wednesday attended the funerals for three officers slain in last week’s shooting in Dallas.

Protesters have been staging demonstrations in the city since Sterling’s death last week.

The letter to Philando Castile is dated June 4, 2015.

The five officers were killed by a former U.S. Army Reserve soldier who told police that he was angry about police killings of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier that week and wanted to “kill white people”, especially police. As the protest was winding down, a gunman – since identified as Micah X. Johnson – open fired on officers, killing five, wounding more than half a dozen officers and civilians.

A funeral for Dallas police Officer Patrick Zamarripa will be held on Saturday.

Sullivan said the department is spending about $3,000 to send the five officers to the Dallas. Lorne Ahrens at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, Wednesday, July 13, 2016.

The colleagues of Dallas police Sr. Cpl.

In the Dallas suburb of Plano, mourners were told of Ahrens’ work with the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department and time as semipro football player before moving to Texas and joining the Dallas police force.

Ahrens, who was known as a gentle giant and a voracious reader whose intelligence was equal to his size, was a 14-year DPD veteran.

A public service was scheduled Thursday for Smith at a Dallas church where he worked security. He once received a “Cops’ Cop” award from the Dallas Police Association.