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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 10 2016, @11:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 10 2016, @11:33AM (#372655)

    It's good to see you finally waking up to the fact that your gun doesn't give you equal footing with anyone who has intent.

    That wasn't so hard, was it?? Maybe you are just a little slow.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 10 2016, @12:22PM

    You're really dense, you know? Equal footing never meant the same exact circumstances in every situation. Pedantic, much?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 13 2016, @09:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 13 2016, @09:54AM (#374019)

      Trying to weasel your way out of your own silly arguments much?

      Your gun isn't for defense. It's for equal footing.

      And when it's pointed out that it doesn't even give you equal footing, any time you would actually need that equal footing, what's your response? To claim you never wanted equal footing in the first place. You just like gun humping or something.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 13 2016, @08:21PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday July 13 2016, @08:21PM (#374179) Homepage Journal

        My guns aren't for equal footing. That's just a perk they provide. They're for overthrowing tyrannical a government, as they were meant to be.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 14 2016, @11:44PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 14 2016, @11:44PM (#374567)

          LOL. Your excuses are getting less and less plausible.

          And you seem to have forgotten the part where you dont have equal footing anyway.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 15 2016, @09:36AM

            Your trolls are weak. Equal footing never meant everything under the sun is equal. It meant we both have the same ability to kill each other by dint of having the same access to the same weapons. Go play in the yard now. It's good for you. Generates vitamin D.

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