Dallas Shooting Roundup

[Vandalshandle]

Oh, but it gets MUCH more interesting. I read this today:

"Rawlings made his comments Friday in response to questions about initial police reports about possible other suspects. The attack happened at a protest about recent killings by police.

He said the crowd included about 20 people carrying rifles and wearing protective gear. He says that like others, they started running after the shooting began. He said authorities started stopping them and interviewing them."

So, the gunman gets hold of an AR-15, just like in Orlando, and all the NRA Rambos are marching in the street with their rifles and bulletproof vests, and they all run like rabbits when the shooting starts. But they will tell you that you can take their gun from their "cold dead hands". The only thing they accomplished was to slow down the cops who were trying to hunt down the shooter.

You're SUPPOSED to run when the shooting starts and find cover.

That is Rule #1.

Rule #2 is then try and locate the shooter without getting your head shot off.

Rule #3 is if you are outgunned then keep running.

You can be outgunned by either superior fire power or by superior numbers.

For some people this is obviously like rocket science though.

The gun is not a magic wand however. It won't do magic. You can still get killed even with a gun of your ownie.

I guess that I just assumed that all of this crap was a statement being made that they would not tolerate the government disarming them and making them vulnerable;

 

[Vandalshandle]

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/n...rs-shot-5-killed-in-dallas-police-ambush.html

It was reported in multiple articles. It was confirmed by the Dallas Business Journal who would have a closer line to breaking information than most others in the media.

The Dallas Police Department said in a prepared statement at about 11:30 p.m. that a female suspect who was in a shootout with Dallas SWAT officers near the garage at El Centro College in downtown is in custody. A suspicious package was discovered near that suspect's location and the bomb squad headed to the scene. No bombs were found.

...and I didn't even know that it was a full moon out tonight.....

 

[Agit8r]

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/n...rs-shot-5-killed-in-dallas-police-ambush.html

It was reported in multiple articles. It was confirmed by the Dallas Business Journal who would have a closer line to breaking information than most others in the media.

The Dallas Police Department said in a prepared statement at about 11:30 p.m. that a female suspect who was in a shootout with Dallas SWAT officers near the garage at El Centro College in downtown is in custody. A suspicious package was discovered near that suspect's location and the bomb squad headed to the scene. No bombs were found.

"a female suspect who was in a shootout with Dallas SWAT officers near the garage"

That line doesn't appear in the source you cited.

 

[Agit8r]

The cover-up is in motion. This article confirms that it's 100% impossible to rule out other suspects without a full and complete investigation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html?_r=0

Three other people were arrested in connection with the shooting, but the police would not name them or say why they were being held.

He refused to rule out the possibility that more people were involved, saying, “We’re not satisfied that we’ve exhausted every lead.”

The three other suspects were a woman who was taken from the garage and two others who were taken in for questioning after a traffic stop, but they were not providing much information, the chief said.

And all living persons of interest have been released. Think about it. If there were other shooters, a lot more people would be dead

 

[7forever]

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/n...rs-shot-5-killed-in-dallas-police-ambush.html

...and I didn't even know that it was a full moon out tonight.....

Update, 12:35 a.m.: Dallas police say that a suspect in Thursday night's attack became involved in a shootout with SWAT officers and is now in custody.

Five Police Officers Killed in Attack at Dallas Protest

 

[Agit8r]

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/n...rs-shot-5-killed-in-dallas-police-ambush.html

...and I didn't even know that it was a full moon out tonight.....

Update, 12:35 a.m.: Dallas police say that a suspect in Thursday night's attack became involved in a shootout with SWAT officers and is now in custody.

Five Police Officers Killed in Attack at Dallas Protest

Last I heard there had been 6 deaths. Perhaps you could get more up-to-date information.

 

[bullwinkle]

Time to start looking at people that make these kinds of threats on social media. How many now have we had, of all kinds of stripes, that have carried out their bloody fantasies? And once they make these kinds of threats, should they be allowed to keep their guns?

Does your side get to decide what is a threat?

Threats can be real or implied and all are effective. I'm beginning to think that looking 'over there' for threats to national security is to overlook what's under our noses. Is ISIS any worse than what we have bred here? They may be a little more creative in their murders, but Americans, from McVeigh to Micah, are just as malevolently twisted. While I believe we should be very careful in proving cases of mass murder, or even revenge killings like the one in this link, proven cases should be exiled naked to a long life of misery on a snake-filled island.

3 Killed, Including 9-Year-Old Boy, in San Bernardino

 

[7forever]

UPDATE: Slain Dallas shooting suspect identified

It sounds like only two people were taken into custody, one of which turned himself in. He's the one who appeared on CNN with his brother. The other suspect is a woman who was reportedly involved in a shootout with police. She was either in or near the parking garage when this took place. The female suspect is being ignored by the media, no doubt.

UPDATE (WKOW) -- Dallas police say a potential suspect and a person of interest are now in custody.

Police say the person of interest, the man pictured in a camouflage shirt, turned himself in.

Officers say another alleged suspect was in a shootout with Dallas SWAT officers. That suspect is also in custody. Police say a suspicious package was discovered near this suspect's location. They say the package is being secured by the department's bomb squad.

UPDATE (WKOW) -- The suspect who was still in a standoff with police in Dallas is now dead.

WFAA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Dallas, has confirmed the suspect died around 3:00 a.m. after a long standoff with police. Police did not make it clear whether the suspect killed himself or was killed by law enforcement.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown says at least 11 police officers were shot and five of those were killed after two snipers attacked law enforcement during a protest of officer-involved shootings across the country. The female suspect who was detained earlier in the night was in a shootout with Dallas SWAT officers, according to WFAA, near the garage of El Centro College. A suspicious package was found near there and the Dallas Police Department bomb squad was dispatched.

 

[Vandalshandle]

The real shooters, the hobos on the overpass, got away.

 

[7forever]

The female suspect interviewed is light-skinned.

 

[longknife]

The guy claimed he supported the Black Panthers (Muslim oriented) and The Nation of Islam. Reports also indicated his regular attendance at a nearby mosque.

HE WAS A MUSLIM TERRORIST!

 

[7forever]

I found the shootout in the AP wire and about 7 articles. I scrolled up and found no mention of this suspect's outcome. This suspect has not been cleared or mentioned by any media outlet outside of these early reports that I've seen.

 

[bullwinkle]

The guy claimed he supported the Black Panthers (Muslim oriented) and The Nation of Islam. Reports also indicated his regular attendance at a nearby mosque.

HE WAS A MUSLIM TERRORIST!

Longknife, can you provide a link to reports of Johnson's regular attendance at nearby mosque or that the Black Panthers are Muslim oriented. I ask because the Panthers were a big outfit in the early 60s, long before we ever gave Muslims a second thought. And I can't find anything about "regular" attendance at a mosque for Johnson. He may have attended once or twice, but regular?

 

[waltky]

Dallas unites behind grieving police...

Dallas shootings: Police touched by outpouring of support
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 | For many people in Dallas this week, the police are heroes. And for the others - there's an uneasy truce.

Police officer Chris Gilliam, 52, is a big, burly man, a 29-year veteran of the police force, and he rides a motorcycle. People don't usually give him flowers. But on Friday a long-stemmed red rose was lying next to one of the motorcycle tyres. The motorcycle was blocking off a street in downtown Dallas near the place where his colleagues had been killed the night before. Someone had left the rose there - part of an outpouring of support that Gilliam and other members of the police force received from the Dallas community on Friday. People were shocked and horrified by the way that officers were targeted and gunned down - and shared condolences, sympathy and bottled water, among other things, with the survivors.

Notes, flowers and other items decorate a police car at a make-shift memorial in front of the Dallas police department​

On the night of the carnage, a 25-year-old sniper, Micah Johnson, had used an AR-15 rifle to shoot and kill five officers: Lorne Ahrens; Michael Krol; Michael Smith; Brent Thompson, a Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer; and Patrick Zamarripa. Besides the dead, seven officers and two civilians were wounded in the attacks. The officers were shot during a protest by supporters of Black Lives Matter and others who had been campaigning against police violence. Tension between black protesters and white police officers has flared up over the past two years, and people had taken to the streets of Dallas after black men were killed by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota. Johnson, a former army private, was enraged by the treatment of African-Americans at the hands of the police. After the attacks in central Dallas, police cornered him in a parking garage. He said he wanted to kill white officers, and he had stockpiled bomb-making equipment, ammunition and rifles at his house. The police killed him with a robot and a bomb.

'We need your support'

The Dallas police chief, David Brown, spoke about the shootings of the police officers during a press conference on Friday morning. He also talked about the way that police officers are seen by members of the community - and that the officers themselves sometimes feel unappreciated. He said he hoped that things would be different on that day and that people would recognise the sacrifices that officers make. "We don't feel much support most days," he said. "Let's not make today most days. Please, we need your support to be able to protect you from men like these who carried out this tragic, tragic event." The people who live in Dallas found it easy to follow his advice. In many US cities, police officers are feared and hated. But in Dallas things are a little different - the number of complaints against the police has fallen dramatically.

The force has plenty of detractors, including some of those who were marching against violence in the police force on the night of the assaults. But many people in this Texas city admire their officers, who are trained to bring down the possibility of violent encounters - "de-escalation", as mayor Mike Rawlings explained in a press conference on Friday. He said that the police officers are drilled for these difficult situations. "We're one of the premier community policing cities in the country," he said. "This year we have the fewest police officer-related shootings than any large city in America."

Show of solidarity

 

[yiostheoy]

Texas has had other similar G/I wacko's before.

Remember Charles Whitman at the Univ Of Texas / Austin tower?

Charles Whitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[yiostheoy]

The guy claimed he supported the Black Panthers (Muslim oriented) and The Nation of Islam. Reports also indicated his regular attendance at a nearby mosque.

HE WAS A MUSLIM TERRORIST!

I don't think so.

To qualify as a Muslim extremist you need to target a few Jews, I would say.

This guy just hated white people and cops. That's not very Muslim.

This guy was just a racist negro.

There are racist whites and there are racist negroes.

Racist Muslims usually kill Jews mostly.

 

[7forever]

I found the source and the source's wingman. WFAA 8 ABC/Dallas retweeted the shootout right away. I've seen no attempt by the media or the DPD to explain how this woman was not involved in some way with the Dallas shooting.

 

[7forever]

They'll never have to explain it if the media doesn't do their job. WFAA has made no attempt to follow up with the DPD and they likely won't, which is exactly the opposite of what they are supposed to do, investigate and find the correct answers. The Media is an arm of the government.

Micah was killed and never arrested. Hughes is a male. The female suspect, according to either the Chief or Mayor is light-skinned. This article was posted late last night.

Mayor Rawlings said Friday morning that a second suspect, a female, was arrested at about 11:30 p.m. after being involved in a shootout with Dallas police. There is no word yet on whether she is still in custody or how she was related to the ambush.

Five officers killed in downtown Dallas ambush

 

[7forever]

He started saying there was more than one shooter right at the time the shooter he could see was inactive. His gun may have been pointed at the ground. No shots appeared to come toward him until the end.

"Someone is really armed to the teeth. This is not, this is not one person with a ???".

 

[7forever]

There was rapid and reckless rifle fire when the main suspect on the ground was inactive. There's no debating that, at least in this video. The man who filmed it said as much. The rifle shots not fired by Micah when he's visible on the ground is the most obvious reason why the cops were so sure of at least two shooters. The rapid rifle fire not his own begins as he walks toward the pillar and continues as he takes cover. Based on this 55 second video there were at least 2 shooters firing rifles.