Outrage at ‘double standards’ as police say Dallas killings should be probed as hate crimes while cop shootings of two black men will not be, as more than TWENTY officers are injured in Minnesota demo
Fraternal Order of Police called for an ‘immediate’ hate crime investigation into the murders of five officers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas
Order said Justice Department is ‘always quick to insert itself into local investigations’ as they asked for swift investigation
Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old black Army veteran, reportedly carried out shooting because he was angry police shot dead two black men last week
Told police he wanted to kill white people ‘especially white officers’
But many have criticized call as fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by cops are not being investigated as hate crimes
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says its unlikely Department will carry out a hate crime investigation as police killed Johnson
Protests over deaths of Sterling and Castile continue into their sixth day
By HANNAH PARRY
DAILYMAIL.COM
10 July 2016
Police have been branded ‘hypocrites’ over calls for the Justice Department to investigate the Dallas shootings as a ‘hate crime’, as the sixth day of protests erupted across the country over the fatal shooting of two black men by cops.
The Fraternal Order of Police called for an ‘immediate’ hate crime investigation into the murders of five officers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas on Thursday. Another seven were injured.
‘The U.S. Department of Justice is always quick to insert itself into local investigations,’ group President Chuck Canterbury said Friday. ‘Today we expect action just as swift. We want a federal investigation into those who were motivated by their hatred of police to commit mass murder in Dallas.’
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