‘He wanted to kill white people, especially white officers’: Police kill sniper after twelve cops were shot – and FIVE killed – during furious nationwide protests over U.S. police shootings of two black men
Twelve police officers were shot – and five killed – during a Dallas, Texas Black Lives Matter protest Thursday night
Police killed one suspect with a robotic bomb, after a four-hour standoff at a nearby college
Before he died, the suspect told a hostage negotiator that he acted alone, was upset about the recent police-shootings of two black men and wanted to kill white people – ‘especially white officers’
The five casualties were all male cops; Two have been identified as Brent Thompson and Patrick Zamarripa
Seven other officers (including two female cops) and two bystanders are among the injured
Gunfire broke out just before 9pm Central Time as protesters marched against the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile this week
One or multiple gunmen fired from an ‘elevated position’, picking off officers ‘ambush style’
Gruesome footage shows a cop being shot execution-style by a gunman as he rampaged through city
Three other suspects – in addition to the gunman who died – were taken into custody
Two of them are being questioned after speeding away from the scene in a black Mercedes
President Obama reacted to the shooting from Warsaw, Poland, expressing his ‘deepest condolences to the American people’
By Sarah Dean and Ollie Gillman
DailyMail.com
8 July 2016
Shots rang out at the previously peaceful protest just before 9pm, and witness video shows marchers screaming and fleeing from the scene in horror.
All five cops killed were men and two have been identified so far: 43-year-old DART Officer Brent Thompson and young young father Patrick Zamarripa.
Around 11pm, cops cornered a suspect at nearby El Centro College and attempted to negotiate with him, but four hours later the talks failed and a robot was brought in to detonate a bomb and kill the suspect.
Before he died however, the gunman told the hostage negotiator his motivations behind the attack.
‘The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter. He said he was upset about the recent police shootings of black suspects. He said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers,’ Dallas Police Chief David Brown revealed at a 7:30am press conference.
Authorities have not yet released the name of the shooter. He allegedly claimed to have acted alone, countering previous reports that as many as four gunmen were involved in the massacre. Three other suspects were taken into custody at the scene Thursday night, but Chief Brown refused to go into detail about these arrests. However, he said that his department is still not certain that everyone involved in the attack.
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