7/7 Dallas Shooting

[barracuda]

Sure does look like a photoshop!

D'okay. I'd ask you why you happen to suppose that, but I'm afraid you might answer me. So I won't.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Sure does look like a photoshop!

1) It really does not.

2) Why would anyone try to frame up something so obscure? America barely remembers Public Enemy; they definitely don't know Professor Griff.

[MacCruiskeen]

Summary

Five police officers have been shot dead at a protest in Dallas

Seven more officers were injured in the shooting, some critically

The gunman has been named as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson

Upset about police killings of black people, Johnson said he wanted to kill whites, especially white police officers

He was killed by an explosive device detonated by a police robot

Three other suspects are in custody and are refusing to co-operate with police

The protest in Dallas was sparked by the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling by police in Minnesota and Louisiana

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-36743033

"The gunman" - Is this going to be sold to us as the work of a single shooter, now deceased?

Was Micah Xavier Johnson this guy, filmed on the street?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36743774

But of course there are multiple reports of several men on roofs, shooting.

Three other suspects are in custody and are refusing to co-operate with police

I wonder what form that non-co-operation is taking. ("Call Langley." or "This is more than your job's worth"?) In any case, it's strangely worded. I don't think I've ever read such a sentence on the BBC within hours of a major crime.

[Grizzly]

Anyone seen this?

https://streamable.com/pgpb

[Grizzly]

Anyone seen this?

https://streamable.com/pgpb

Guess they've brought the war, home.

[MacCruiskeen]

Anyone seen this?

https://streamable.com/pgpb

That's the same video shown by the bbc, except that it's twice as long and shows him shooting a policeman at very close range.

Then someone fires at the shooter, hitting the wall behind him.

Then the shooter flees on foot.

What do the last few seconds show, around the corner? There's someone else there, in dark clothes, struggling on the ground under those colonnades.

[bks]

Reuters Top News Verified account
‏@Reuters

BREAKING: Suspected Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson was a member of U.S. Amy Reserve - government source

[Iamwhomiam]

Three other suspects are in custody and are refusing to co-operate with police

Taken a bit differently by readers than "alleged suspects have asserted their 5th amendment right to remain silent and have exercised their 6th amendment right to be represented by counsel."

[MacCruiskeen]

Speaking earlier, [Police Chief David] Brown said two snipers had fired from "elevated positions", shooting some officers in the back

"We believe that these suspects were positioning themselves in a way to triangulate on these officers from two different perches... and planned to injure and kill as many law enforcement officers as they could," Mr Brown said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36745862

[bks]

A question I saw asked elsewhere: "is this what it looks like when citizens exercise their second amendment rights against perceived tyranny?"

Good question. This essay frames maters differently, but it's another perspective one never hears any longer in the mainstream:


It Has Begun

http://coreyrobin.com/2016/07/08/it-has-begun/

[Iamwhomiam]

Also, the sparks shown in the video appear to all be coming from bullets being fired by the videographer or someone close by him, ricocheting off the railing along the edge of the rooftop.

Who shot the video? Was it a cop?

[8bitagent]

The media knows what it's doing. All over the front page of news sites an image of the alleged gunmen shown with a clenched raised fist in either military garb(or ceremonial African robes depending on the website)
with "He Wanted To Kill Whites" and "Black Militant Behind The Dallas Massacre". It's long been my belief special interests are hellbent on starting a literal race war and mass civil unrest across America.
The first episode of the new OJ Made In America documentary goes into the long boiling tension with cop's racist brutality

I just want to note that the aesthetics of that Facebook page are pretty far off. I think the chances of it being legit are pretty miniscule.

In initial reports, I heard that upwards of seven protesters had also been shot. Is there any truth to that? By the sniper(s), or cops returning fire erratically? I'm seeing little mention now of any protester casualties. KY3 says "2 civilians shot": http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Police- ... 52771.html

I'm so glad that this didn't happen in Philly, the gathering was huge last night and shut down the highway the night before. There's another vigil planned for tonight.

Just a couple weeks til the DNC convention in Philly tho. I personally wouldnt want to be anywhere near Cleveland RNC convention arena or where the DNC convention is being held.

[Cordelia]

Speaking earlier, [Police Chief David] Brown said two snipers had fired from "elevated positions", shooting some officers in the back

"We believe that these suspects were positioning themselves in a way to triangulate on these officers from two different perches... and planned to injure and kill as many law enforcement officers as they could," Mr Brown said.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36745862

Exactly.......... how it was reported radio stations and in newspapers (don't have t.v.) all morning.

"Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the shooters, some in elevated positions, used sniper rifles to fire at the officers in what appeared to be a coordinated attack.

“(They were) working together with rifles, triangulating at elevated positions in different points in the downtown area where the march ended up going,” Brown told a news conference, adding a civilian was also wounded."

http://fortune.com/2016/07/08/snipers-d ... shootings/

[MacCruiskeen]

^^Yes, let's see how this "plays out".

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Meanwhile... "X"? Aha, y'mean like Malcolm X?

In fact no. His second name is Xavier, but the hacks just love making it "X".


https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/statu ... 7784210432

[Karmamatterz]

Has anybody gone to Broadcastify to see if the emergency calls and traffic were captured? I cannot right now due to work.