Johnson parks SUV and fires towards Main StreetĢ. About 20 to 30 open-carry gun rights activists joined the protest march, some wearing gas masks, bulletproof vests, and fatigues, according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown. Around 800 protesters were involved, and around 100 police officers were assigned to monitor the event. The Dallas protest was one of several held across the United States on the night of July 7. law enforcement officers in history and the largest since the Young Brothers massacre of 1932 resulted in the deaths of six law enforcement officers in Missouri.Ī protest was organized in Dallas by the Next Generation Action Network in response to the killings of two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota, respectively, days before. It was the second-deadliest targeted attack of U.S. law enforcement since the Septemattacks, surpassing two related March 2009 shootings in Oakland, California, and a November 2009 ambush shooting in Lakewood, Washington, which had each resulted in the death of four police officers and the shooting deaths of both suspects. The shooting was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement used a robot to kill a suspect. In the early hours of July 8, police killed Johnson with a bomb attached to a remote control bomb disposal robot. Police followed him there, and a standoff ensued. The shooting happened at the end of a protest against the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, which had occurred in the preceding days.įollowing the shooting, Johnson fled inside a building on the campus of El Centro College. Johnson was an Army Reserve Afghan War veteran and was angry over police shootings of black men. On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed a group of police officers in Dallas, Texas, shooting and killing five officers, and injuring nine others. Five police officers killed in Dallas, Texas during sniper attack.The most officers shot in the line of duty at the time of the report had occurred in Texas (24), followed by Arizona (21), Kentucky (16), California (13), and North Carolina (12), the report states. Of those officers shot, 50 of them were killed. 30, up 5% since the same time last year, according to an FOP report shared on Oct. There had been 252 officers shot in the line of duty as of Sept. "As a profession, we are disgusted, exhausted, angry, most of all we are hurting," Gamaldi tweeted. Joe Gamaldi, the FOP national vice president, called the incidents this week in which officers were shot "absolutely abhorrent" and "a stain on our society." A mass killing is defined as when four or more people are killed excluding the perpetrator. The violence in Raleigh was the 25th mass killing in 2022 in which the victims were fatally shot, according to The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killings database. Latest information on mass killings in Raleigh, NCįOX News' Rich Edson joins LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to discuss the latest after five people, including an off-duty police officer, were gunned down in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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