That line from the father's song in Mary Poppins, where he's going on about how nothing can go wrong, in Britain in 1910. That's about the point I realized the boy was gonna die in a trench.
Five Dallas police officers have been killed and six wounded by gunmen during protests against the shooting of black men by police, authorities say.Three people are in custody and one man who was in a stand-off with police shot himself dead, US media have reported.Gunfire broke out at around 20:45 local time on Thursday (01:45 GMT Friday) as demonstrators marched through the city.The protests were sparked by the deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.The Dallas attack marks the deadliest toll on US law enforcement officers since the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Chief Brown said the suspects were all believed to have been working together, using rifles to carry out attacks while the rally was taking place.He added: "We do not have a comfort level that we have all the suspects."
This may require its own thread. This is...unprecedented. And while, based on a very quick reading, the Dallas PD are not the worst city PD in existence, nevertheless you're going to have an institutionally paranoid group with a strong group identity now feeling it's under attack. And they have lots of guns and badges.
The gunman killed in a stand-off with Dallas police said he was upset about the police shootings of black people and wanted to kill white officers, the city's police chief has said.The suspect told police that he was working alone, Police Chief David Brown told reporters.Five Dallas police officers were killed and seven wounded by gunmen during protests against the shooting of black men by police, authorities say.Three people are in custody.Live updatesMr Brown said the suspect had been killed when police used explosives to end a stand-off in a building where he was holed up.He said that the gunman had told a negotiator that he was "upset about the Black Lives Matter [protest], about recent police shootings, upset at white people, and he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers"."He said he was not affiliated with any groups, and he did this alone," Mr Brown added.
The suspect involved in a stand-off with police said he wanted to kill white people, especially police officersHe said he was upset about recent police shootings of black menPolice negotiated with the man for several hours and exchanged gunfire with him The suspect was killed by an explosive device sent in remotely using a police robotPolice will not identify the suspects or give any details about them while the investigation is ongoing Police chief David Brown said "divisiveness between our police and our citizens" must stop
"key points from news conference" [snip] that has certain implications as a particularly worrying precedent for dealing with hostile people.
A robotics expert says Dallas police appear to be the first law enforcement agency to use a robot to kill.Peter W. Singer, of the New America Foundation, says the killing of a suspect in Thursday night's fatal shooting of five police officers is the first instance of which he's aware of a robot being used lethally by police.Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters that after hours of failed negotiations and in order to not put any officers in harm's way, his department used a robot to deliver a bomb that killed the suspect. Brown said they saw no other option.Singer said in an email Friday that when he was researching his 2009 book "Wired for War" a U.S. soldier told him troops in Iraq sometimes used MARCbot surveillance robots against insurgents.
The suspect was identified as Micah X. Johnson, 25, a resident of the Dallas area, two U.S. law enforcement officials said.Johnson had no known criminal history or ties to terror groups, the official said, and has relatives in Mesquite, Texas, which is just east of Dallas.The official said federal agents were assisting Dallas authorities in the investigation.Authorities believe Johnson belonged to an informal gun club and took copious amounts of target practice, according to a law enforcement official.
Hold on... They had him holed up, trapped with nowhere to go, and no one was in immediate danger... so they just up and killed him?
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