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Merced Sun-Star | Killings and history challenge us to value all lives equally Detroit Free Press Micah Johnson, the killer, did not act with the weight of history, because there is none of mass police killings by angered African Americans. And even the extreme bigotry and hatred he allegedly ... The perpetrator in Dallas was killed, blown up by a ... Merced reacts with sadness, anger, fear to violence in DallasMerced Sun-Star Micah X Johnson, the Dallas police shooter, was taken out with a robot delivered bombBlasting News all 9,127 news articles » |
The sniper who killed five police officers in Dallas planned larger attacks, probably on law enforcement, the city's police chief said Sunday as he provided new details about how the suspect taunted authorities for two hours during negotiations. "We're convinced that this suspect had other plans and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to target law enforcement—make us pay for what he sees as law enforcement's efforts to punish people of color,” David Brown said in an interview with CNN's State of the Union.
The shooter, Micah Xavier Johnson, was “determined to hurt more officers” and bomb-making materials as well as a journal that were found in his home seem to suggest he had been practicing detonations. If he had been successfulit could have caused “devastating effects on our city,” he said.
The Army veteran who served in Afghanistan “obviously had some delusion,” Brown said, giving new details about how he scrawled the letters “RB” on a wall with his blood before he was killed with a robot bomb. Authorities are currently looking through Johnson's writings and possessions to try to figure out what those apparent initials mean. But at the very least it suggests that he was injured during the shootout with police.
Johnson specifically asked to speak with a black negotiator, but didn't seem to have any desire to actually end the standoff. "We had negotiated with him for about two hours, and he just basically lied to us—playing games, laughing at us, singing, asking how many [police officers] did he get and that he wanted to kill some more and that there were bombs there," Brown said.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said he fully supported the decision to kill Johnson with a robot-delivered bomb. "We talked to this man a long time, and he threatened to blow up our police officers, we went to his home we saw that there was bomb-making equipment later," Rawlings said on CBS' Face the Nation. "So it was very important that we realize that he may not be bluffing. So we ask him, 'Do you want to come out safely or do you want to stay there and we're going to take you down?' And he chose the latter."
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Gunman Micah Johnson was killed using a Northrop Grumman tactical robot carrying one pound of C4 explosive in its arm following gun battle
The Dallas police department has defended its decision to use a robot to kill the gunman who fatally shot five of its officers, saying the controversial method was used only “as a last resort”.
Amid disquiet about the potential legal implications of the killing, the department also gave the first public details of the model of robot and type of explosive device they used against Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old army reserve veteran.
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