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posted by takyon on Friday July 08 2016, @03:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the "All-lives-matter."-President-Obama dept.

Snipers in Dallas: [5] Cops Dead; [6] More Cops Wounded

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."


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 09 2016, @02:57AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 09 2016, @02:57AM (#372194) Journal

    You insist on proving yourself a complete fool.

    GP's post indicated that every shooter is some kind of unthinking moron. I countered that not all of them are unthinking morons. Here you come to his defense, trying to paint me as a racist, and insisting that there is nothing to learn from any of the published works of any of the shooters.

    Try pulling your head out of your arse, take a nice deep breath of fresh, oxygenated air, and THINK about what you're writing.

    Then, go look for some of those published works, and read through them. Not every shooter is an idiot. Not only that, but sometimes they do make valid points. In fact, BLM is trying to make some of the same points that some of the shooters have made. Life is unfair, injustice and corruption hammers at people on a daily basis. Go, read, try to educate yourself. Those shooters didn't spring out of some other dimension. They were born into this world, and nurtured by this world. They took their ideas from real life.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 09 2016, @04:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 09 2016, @04:24AM (#372216)

    I am the GP.
    You are the one who made it about racism.
    And now your argument is just pedantics? That not 100% of spree killers have serious mental problems because I didn't interview them all?
    BFG you idiot. You are one of the least self-aware people on this site. Half your posts are so unintentionally revealing that I've actually laughed outloud out how transparent they were.

    Hell your reason for bringing all this up is so fucking transparent. If the murderers in the out-groups you hate are murderers because of their surface thoughts then your hate for them is justified. If they are just nutjobs like all the nutjobs from your favored in-groups then you might start doubting your entire hate-based worldview start thinking of them as people instead of enemies.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 09 2016, @06:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 09 2016, @06:11AM (#372256)

      Different AC here, and from my view of the GP's post...

      Being contemplative and analytical are traits that don't often go hand-in-hand with shooting sprees

      ... it seems that Runaway has made some good points, referencing written works by advocates of mass murder, and instead of trying to defend the original point, the grandparent poster resorts to throwing around buzzwords at Runaway's references. Sorry, there are no "magic words" (e.g. racist, bigot, intolerant, nutjob, crazy, hate) that automatically and by themselves invalidate reasoning, no matter how dispicable the reasoner may or may not be.