The Atlantic reports:
Two gunmen shot eleven police officers in Dallas, Texas [at 8:58 PM July 7], killing at least four of them.
[...] At a Thursday night press conference, Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown said [...] officers had one of the suspects "cornered", but did not offer further details.
"Tonight, it appears that two snipers shot ten police officers from elevated positions during the protest/rally", Brown said in an initial statement. "Three officers are deceased, two are in surgery, and three are in critical condition. An intensive search for suspect is currently underway." The police department later said an eleventh officer had also been injured and a fourth officer had been killed.
[...] The shootings occurred during a protest against police killings earlier this week in Louisiana and Minnesota. Hundreds rallied in downtown Dallas, near the corner of Main Street and Lamar Street. Local news footage captured what sounds like several gunshots being fired, and the crowd scattering.
[...] No motive has yet been established and it's unclear whether the shooting was related to the protest.
The New York Times just broke the story about the latest in the police killings of black men. It seems the tide has been turned. [Five] Dallas police officers were killed tonight at a protest in that city over these shootings.
I am not surprised, nor am I particularly shocked. No doubt there will be more to come on this topic as the evening progresses. Hopefully something good comes out of this, but I am inclined to doubt it.
takyon: Some more details: One suspect was killed by an explosion intentionally caused by a police robot. He reportedly told a negotiator that he was upset about Black Lives Matter, the recent police shootings, and wanted to kill white people, especially police officers. He said he was not affiliated with any groups and acted alone. Other suspects have been arrested, and a "person of interest" (often identified as a suspect by the news media) was arrested early in the night after he was photographed with his unloaded AR-15. He handed his weapon to an officer shortly after the shootings, and later turned himself into the police for questioning.
President Obama spoke about the shootings shortly after arriving in Poland for a NATO conference. In part, he mentioned that, "When people say 'black lives matter,' that doesn't mean blue lives don't matter, it just means all lives matter — but right now the big concern is the fact that the data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents [...] This isn't a matter of us comparing the value of lives. This is recognizing that there is a particular burden that is being placed on a group of our fellow citizens. And we should care about that. And we can't dismiss it. We can't dismiss it."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by curunir_wolf on Friday July 08 2016, @07:46PM
It's worse than that. You check out where the funding is coming from and you realize it's just another tentacle in the George Soros web of political activism.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08 2016, @08:26PM
You know? I'm okay with Soros spending his money to promote a point of view and won't cast him as a puppet-master like the left does with the Koch brothers. Change the channel if you don't like the message.
What is beyond pale is that you have corruption at all levels of law enforcement, from parallel construction to questionable search justifications (and the treatment of blacks by police is also a facet), and you have some useful idiot pegs you as racist because your view of problems with police is a bit more all-encompassing.
Sensitivity training for police doesn't end these issues as much as put a happy-face on mass incarceration. Your life is just as much over. A bullet is just much quicker.
But ending police corruption is something most people can get behind. Instead we get glib reading of how deep the rot goes.
Keep telling yourself it's just racism and not that police powers have increased 10 fold.
What a self-serving bunch of asses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08 2016, @08:28PM
Who modded that informative?
What would be informative is a citation to back it up.
Well, a citation from a source that's not on a website with articles about how Obummer was born in Kenya.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday July 08 2016, @10:36PM
Here, I duckduckgoed it (duckducked?). The first few results were funny. TheConservativeTreeHouse.com: Yes it is! The Daily Beast: No it's isn't! The Daily Fail: Yes it is! Personally, I think it would be morbidly hilarious if it were true at face value because it'd fit right into my lizard person conspiracy theory.
Here's Snopes [snopes.com]:
TRUE: A grantmaking network founded by George Soros provided funding to some groups that engaged in Ferguson-related protest activities.
FALSE: George Soros gave money to various groups for the express purpose of promoting Ferguson-related protests and riots.
(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Sunday July 10 2016, @04:37PM
Snopes is not a credible source, not any more. They may have had a good track record in the past, but they have revealed themselves to have a political agenda, and provide cover for the far left. As another example, they said that Obama's comment that "You can buy a gun online without a background check" as "mostly true" based purely on the fact that he did NOT say you could do that legally. In other words, you can go online and find an illegal way to buy a gun without a background check. The statement was something Obama said during a press conference in which he was proposing more laws to fix loopholes. So Snopes was completely disingenuous to insert "illegally" into his statement in order to claim it was "mostly true". So they have NO credibility.
Soros funds LOTS of groups, that in turn fund other groups, and they all have other sources of funding as well, but it's all based on a Soros (and similar elitists') agenda. So it's difficult to draw all the lines that show the funding coming from that web of groups. I've seen them through various sources (not the ones you found, though), and I'm not inclined to draw them all out for your edification, but I did find that the Washington Times [washingtontimes.com] drew some of the connections to Ferguson protests. They sourced OpenSecrets and other political funding tracking sites. So Snopes in this case simply started with an agenda (to claim Soros money was not involved in BLM and other protest organizations), and then simply ignored all the evidence to the contrary to support their preconceived conclusion.
What we do know:
The ladies that started #BlackLivesMatter have been involved in community organizing for a long time: Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza. Organizations they have been involved with have also been funded by Soros' organizations.
I am a crackpot