QC law enforcement react to Dallas police killings

DAVID BROWN, Chief, Dallas Police Department: He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. They put their lives on the line to protect protesters, who by all accounts conducted themselves peacefully during Thursday’s rally that was organized to bring attention to deadly shootings by police of two African-American men in other USA cities.

The number of police officers shot and killed in the United States of America is 44% higher than at this time a year ago following the Dallas ambush Thursday night that left five officers dead, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. “Other options would have exposed officers to grave danger”.

Cooper said that when he heard the suspect was Johnson, he “was in disbelief because he’s just not like a violent or rough dude”.

Last year, Bard College’s Center for the Study of the Drone sifted through the military’s publicly available data, and found that over 200 law enforcement agencies across the country received one or more “explosive ordnance disposal” robots through the Pentagon’s program.

“All the facts aren’t known, but from evidence that’s been presented, the video that’s been taken, nobody should be shot and killed in Minnesota for a traffic, a tail light being out of function”. The daily needs of the community must also be met, so Abilene has offered help and stands ready to assist the Dallas and DART Police Departments, or any other agency that requires assistance related to this matter.

The shooting came one day after police killed 37-year-old Alton Sterling in the southern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

And in Tennessee, a man accused of shooting indiscriminately at passing cars and police on a highway told investigators he was angry about police violence against African-Americans, authorities said.

It was the deadliest single attack on law enforcement since the 2001 terror attacks, when 72 officers died, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

Black Lives Matter is asking its supporters to join together at 6 p.m. ET at Make Shift Boston, “to mourn our lost, organize our people, and celebrate our resistance”. “Nobody should be shot and killed while they are seated still in their auto”, Dayton, who is white, said on Thursday. A gunman was spotted shooting a rifle at police from behind a pillar. But then they proceeded in quick succession, with brief pauses between spurts of gunfire. He said those disparities are backed up by statistics that show African Americans and Hispanics are treated differently by police.

The mayor said one of the wounded officers had a bullet go through his leg as three members of his squad were fatally shot around him. “And that’s what I learned from this”.

“This was a man that we gave plenty of options to to give himself up peacefully and we spent a lot of time talking. But I think people are trying, trying to keep moving forward”. The police department took to social media with tweets of photos of the rally and officers posing with protesters and other attendees.

Few details about the slain officers were immediately available.

Anderson Police Chief Jim Stewart said officers will not normally be teamed up.

Four DART officers were shot and one, 43-year-old Brent Thompson, was killed.

Make no mistake. This was a hate crime, every bit as despicable as the mass shooting of nine African-Americans during a prayer service past year at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. The person charged with that killing is Dylann Roof, 21, who is white.

“As you can imagine, our hearts are broken”, a DART statement said.

Authorities in the Texan city have identified Micah Johnson, 25, as the attacker, and have said he had no criminal history.