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Three Oakland police sergeants were shot and killed and a fourth officer was critically wounded Saturday in a pair of related incidents that together rank among the deadliest attacks on law enforcement in California history.

A fifth officer, a member of the SWAT team that killed the suspect police held responsible for the shootings, was treated for minor injuries and released.

The first incident happened about 1:15 p.m. when two traffic officers were gunned down after what police described as a "routine" stop of a 1995 Buick in the 7400 block of MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland, not far from the Eastmont Town Center.

About two hours later, after some 200 officers from Oakland Police, Alameda County Sheriff's Office, BART Police and the California Highway Patrol combed the area for the suspect, three SWAT officers were shot when their team found him hidden in an apartment on 74th Avenue near Hillside Street, police officials said.

In all, two SWAT officers and one traffic officer died in the two incidents; one traffic officer was on life support late Saturday.

"In these moments, words are extraordinarily inadequate," Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums told reporters at a news conference Saturday night at Oakland police headquarters. "We come together in shock, in grief, in sadness and sorrow. Our hearts go out to the officers' families who are experiencing a level of tragedy that goes beyond our ability to comprehend."

"These folks leave their homes in the morning, with every expectation of returning," Dellums said, "but they did not."

Killed Saturday were motorcycle officer Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, and Sgts. Ervin Romans, 43, and Daniel Sakai, 35, both members of the SWAT team. The other motorcycle officer, John Hege, 41, was in grave condition, officials said.

The suspect, whom police identified as Lovelle Mixon, 26, of Oakland, shot at the SWAT officers, who "returned fire in defense of their lives," said Officer Jeff Thomason, a department spokesman. The suspect, who police believe was acting alone, was killed. Officials said the suspect was on parole after being convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and was also wanted on a no-bail warrant. Officials did not explain the nature of the warrant.

"All four officers dedicated their lives to public safety and selflessly worked to protect the people of Oakland," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "Maria and I join the Bay Area in remembering their service and honoring their sacrifice."

Schwarzenegger said Capitol flags would be flown at half-staff. He is flying from Washington to Oakland Sunday to meet with the mayor and Howard Jordan, Oakland's acting police chief.

Oakland City Council member Larry Reid called the incident "one of the worst days in the history of Oakland."

Saturday's shooting appears to be one of the state's most horrific police killings.

The most notorious such slaying is referred to as the "Newhall incident," a Los Angeles County shootout in 1970 that left four California Highway Patrol officers dead and changed the way state law enforcement officers approach high-risk stops.

Saturday evening, as word of the shootings circulated in the Bay Area's law enforcement community, about 100 officers gathered outside the entrance to Oakland's Highland Hospital emergency room, waiting desperately for information about their fallen colleagues. Some of them were wearing SWAT gear, while others were wearing baseball jerseys after having raced to the hospital from a game.

At the Oakland Police Officers Association office near Jack London Square, hundreds of officers assembled to mourn their colleagues.

"It's shock and disbelief," said Oakland Police Sgt. David Faeth. "We lost a lot of good people today. Good officers, good friends. It hasn't really set in yet."

Shortly after the 9 p.m. press conference, religious leaders from the Oakland community formed an impromptu prayer circle.

Pastor David Kietley of Shiloh Christian Church said, "Let us pray for the Shalom of this city and for peace to reign in every part of this city."

First reports of the incident came from a 911 call at 1:16 p.m., reporting that two officers had been shot, possibly with an assault-type rifle. The suspect fled from the scene on foot, sparking a door-to-door manhunt in East Oakland that involved officers from at least five law enforcement agencies.

An anonymous tipster told police that the suspect was in an apartment building just blocks from the original shooting. The SWAT team was called to the site and took control of the area around the building. After repeated attempts to communicate with the suspect, SWAT officers entered the building around 3:30 p.m.

According to law enforcement sources, the SWAT team officers entered an apartment and approached a closet. Suddenly the gunman, hiding in the closet, opened fire through the door, killing two officers and wounding a third. Officers fired back, killing the gunman.

All during the afternoon, from the time, just after lunch, when the shootings started, until it became dark, East Oakland was swarming with police cars, dozens of them parked on block after block, as officers conducted their investigation and neighbors came out and stood on the sidewalk, watching.

On nearby 73rd Avenue, a man who declined to give his name said he was working in his backyard when he heard four gunshots, followed by a four-second pause, then two more gunshots. It was the start of the first incident.

He looked up and saw a police officer running down MacArthur Boulevard with a gun drawn, heading toward the Dolphin Pharmacy, in front of which the shootings occurred. Within seconds dozens of police cars and helicopters descended on the intersection, he said.

Another neighbor, Antonay Jackson, said she saw officers visibly shaken, some with bowed heads, as they began taking pictures and taping off the crime scene.

"It's crazy," she said. "The police station is right there. We can see it. I don't know, this is too close to home."

Neighbors described the site of the second shootings as an older, two-story, cream-colored eight-plex apartment building on a usually quiet block.

Beatriz Gomez, who runs Beatriz Hair Style salon on 73rd Avenue, said she and her customers were frightened when they saw dozens of police officers swarming around her store, which backs up to the apartment building on 74th Avenue.

"I never saw so many police," she said. "We were scared. We didn't know what happened. Customers were calling all day to see if we were OK. But it's sad - the police do a good job protecting us."

Hours after the shooting, dozens of officers still surrounded the shooting sites, with Oakland police joined by CHP officers, Alameda County sheriff's deputies and BART police.

Young people gathered on street corners, as police shut down parts of MacArthur Boulevard and Hillside Street to make room for investigators.

Keith Sykes, who lives behind the apartment building where the suspect was killed, knew there was trouble when he heard the rush of sirens.

"When you see six or seven police cars, you know a cop's been hurt," he said.

Neighbors said they didn't believe that the gunman lived in the building where he was slain, but said "there's a lot of fussing" in that apartment building.

"It's sad," said Mark Green, another local resident. "I'll tell you this much, I'm going to church tonight."

There have been problems in that neighborhood.

Oakland police opened a substation at the Eastmont Town Center in 1992, responding to neighborhood complaints about crime and violence in the area. But the substation, built in an old tire shop, did not end the neighborhood's troubles.

In 1996, a rowdy rap concert in the mall turned into a melee, with a crowd lobbing bottles and rocks at police, cars and buses. Some of the concertgoers started racing their cars up and down the streets, and two men died after their car crashed through the fence of a nearby school playground.

In 1999, an Oakland police technician was shot at outside the police substation. In 2002, Michelle Horton of San Leandro was shot and killed as she drove on Bancroft Avenue near the mall.

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Three Oakland police sergeants were shot and killed and a fourth officer was critically wounded Saturday in a pair of related incidents that together rank among the deadliest attacks on law enforcement in California history. A fifth officer, a member of the SWAT team that killed the suspect police held responsible for the shootings, was treated for minor injuries and released.

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DALLAS - The heavily armed sniper who gunned down police officers in downtown Dallas, leaving five of them dead, specifically set out to kill as many white officers as he could, officials said Friday. He was a military veteran who had served in Afghanistan, and he kept an arsenal in his home that included bomb-making materials.

The gunman turned a demonstration against fatal police shootings this week of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana from a peaceful march focused on violence committed by officers into a scene of chaos and bloodshed aimed against them.

The shooting was the kind of retaliatory violence that people have feared through two years of protests around the country against deaths in police custody, forcing yet another wrenching shift in debates over race and criminal justice that had already deeply divided the nation.

Demonstrations continued Friday in cities across the country, with one of the largest taking place on the streets of Atlanta, where thousands of people protesting police abuse brought traffic to a standstill.

Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary, said in New York that there was apparently just one sniper, though there were so many gunshots and so many victims that officials at first speculated about multiple shooters.

Officials said they had found no evidence that the gunman, Micah Johnson, 25, had direct ties to any protest or political group, either peaceful or violent, but his Facebook page showed that he supported the New Black Panther Party, a group that has advocated violence against whites, and Jews in particular.

Searching the killer's home on Friday, "detectives found bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics," the Dallas Police Department said in a statement.

Three other people were arrested in connection with the shooting, but the police would not name them or say why they were being held.

In addition to the five officers who died, seven officers and two civilians were wounded. The Police Department said that 12 officers had returned fire during a wild series of gun battles that stretched for blocks.

After the shooting subsided, Mr. Johnson, wielding an assault rifle and a handgun, held the police off for hours in a parking garage, claiming - apparently falsely - to have planted explosives in the area, and threatening to kill more officers. In the end, the police killed him Friday morning with an explosive delivered by a remote-controlled robot, the Dallas police chief, David O. Brown, said.

During the standoff, Mr. Johnson, who was black, told police negotiators that "he was upset about Black Lives Matter," Chief Brown said. "He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers."

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From left, Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael J. Smith, Brent Thompson and Patrick Zamarripa were killed in Dallas.

He refused to rule out the possibility that more people were involved, saying, "We're not satisfied that we've exhausted every lead."

Mr. Johnson, who lived in the Dallas area, served as a private in the Army Reserve from March 2009 to April 2015, according to records released by the Pentagon. He was listed as a carpentry and masonry specialist, and served in Afghanistan from November 2013 to July 2014.

The sequence of events this week provoked anger and despair, dealing blows both to law enforcement and to peaceful critics of the police, who have fended off claims that the outcry over police shootings foments violence and puts officers' lives in danger.

"All I know is that this must stop, this divisiveness between our police and our citizens," Chief Brown said.

Just hours after President Obama, reacting to video recordings of the shootings in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn., spoke in anguished terms about the disparate treatment of the races by the criminal justice system, he felt compelled to speak again, this time about the people who attacked officers.

"We will learn more, undoubtedly, about their twisted motivations, but let's be clear: There are no possible justifications for these attacks or any violence towards law enforcement," he told reporters Friday morning in Warsaw, where he was attending a NATO summit meeting, after speaking by phone with Mayor Mike Rawlings of Dallas.

The White House said Mr. Obama would travel to Dallas early next week, at the invitation of the city's mayor. Later in the week, the president will host a discussion between the police and community leaders to help find solutions to racial disparities and ways to better support police, aides said.

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, who was in Washington, said that the week's violence had left many people with a justifiable "sense of helplessness, of uncertainty and of fear," but that "the answer must not be violence."

"To our brothers and sisters who wear the badge, I want you to know that I am deeply grateful for the difficult and dangerous work that you do every day to keep our streets safe and our nation secure," she said. To the protesters, she said, "Do not be discouraged by those who would use your lawful actions as a cover for their heinous violence."

But William Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, appearing on Fox News, said that there was "a war on cops," and that the Obama administration was to blame for appeasement of those who attack the police.

The attack appeared to be the deadliest for law enforcement officers in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.

"Our profession is hurting," Chief Brown said, calling the actions of his officers nothing short of heroic. "Dallas officers are hurting. We are heartbroken. There are not words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city."

The shooting erupted just before 9 p.m., only a few blocks from Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. It cut short an emotional but peaceful demonstration, unleashing chaos as terrified marchers, including families with children, ran for cover, while police officers ran toward the shooting, guns drawn and firing back.

"I grabbed my shirt because I was close enough, I thought I might have been shot," said Jeff Hood, a minister who took part in the march. "I was screaming, 'Run, run!'"

Bystanders captured extraordinary video of the shootout on downtown streets, with officers taking shelter behind patrol cars and pillars, and tending to their fallen comrades, amid the boom of gunfire and the flash and glare of squad cars' emergency lights.

The violence struck near one of the city's busiest districts, filled with hotels and restaurants as well as county government buildings, and hundreds of people spent much of the night trapped in buildings that were placed on lockdown.

The dead included four officers of the Dallas city police, and one from Dallas Area Rapid Transit.

Jane E. Bishkin, a Dallas lawyer who represents five of the wounded officers, said that they were expected to recover, but that one of them, a woman, had suffered a serious injury to her left arm and might be disabled as a result.

After Mr. Johnson was cornered on the second floor of a parking garage, negotiators spent hours trying to get him to surrender, Chief Brown said, but he "told our negotiators that the end is coming and he's going to hurt and kill more of us, meaning law enforcement, and that there are bombs all over the place in this garage and downtown."

"The negotiations broke down, and we had an exchange of gunfire with the suspect," the chief said. "We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was."

The three other suspects were a woman who was taken from the garage and two others who were taken in for questioning after a traffic stop, but they were not providing much information, the chief said.

On Friday, a large part of downtown remained off limits to civilians as detectives, and agents from the F.B.I. and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, combed through the sprawling crime scene.

Chief Brown suggested that the gunman had some knowledge of the march route.

"How would you know to post up there?" he said. "We have yet to determine whether or not there was some complicity with the planning of this, but we will be pursuing that."

But Dominique R. Alexander, a minister and head of the Next Generation Action Network, who said he had planned the march, said his group did not condone any violence.

"I was right there when the shooting happened," he said. "They could have shot me."

Manny Fernandez reported from Dallas, and Richard Pérez-Peña and Jonah Engel Bromwich from New York. Reporting was contributed by Michael S. Schmidt from Washington, Alan Blinder and Patrick McGee from Dallas, Mark Landler from Warsaw, Julie Turkewitz from Colorado Springs, and Sewell Chan from London.

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DALLAS - The heavily armed sniper who gunned down police officers in downtown Dallas, leaving five of them dead, specifically set out to kill as many white officers as he could, officials said Friday. He was a military veteran who had served in Afghanistan, and he kept an arsenal in his home that included bomb-making materials.

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A 37-year-old Tacoma man, Maurice Clemmons, is being sought for questioning in the execution-style shooting of four Lakewood police officers this morning, according to two law-enforcement sources.

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A 37-year-old Tacoma man, Maurice Clemmons, is being sought for questioning in the execution-style shooting of four Lakewood police officers this morning, according to law-enforcement officials.

Clemmons was identified as a person of interest in the slayings, but not as a suspect.

Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said Clemmons had been seen in the area of the shootings at the time they occurred.

Clemmons, who was recently released from jail, has an extensive criminal record in Pierce County and Arkansas, court records show. He currently faces eight criminal charges in Washington state.

The four officers were killed at about 8:15 a.m. by a scruffy-looking man who walked into a coffee shop and opened fire. The officers - three men and one woman - were found dead by deputies who arrived at Forza Coffee at 11401 Steele St. S., Troyer said.

Sgt. Mark Renninger and Officers Ronald Owens, Tina Griswold and Greg Richards were identified as the officers who were shot.

Troyer said the investigation into the shootings indicate that the gunman "flat-out executed" two of the officers. One officer then stood up, tried to go for the gunman and was shot, Troyer said.

The fourth officer was involved in some kind of struggle with the gunman.

"What happened in there wasn't just a shooting. One of the officers managed to fight his way with the suspect, wrestled him out the door when he was shot and killed," Troyer said.

Before that fourth officer was killed, Troyer said, he apparently managed to fire at the shooter.

Troyer said if the gunman was shot, he could be traveling some distance to get care. Troyer suggested the man may try to visit a medical facility and claim he had suffered an accidental gunshot wound.

The officers who were shot made up one patrol unit, including a sergeant.

"It's carnage out front everywhere," Troyer said, describing the front of the coffee shop. "It's like a bad horror movie, it's horrible."

The officers were in uniform, including bulletproof vests, and were working on their laptop computers as they prepared to start their day shifts, Troyer said.

"This was a targeted, selective ambush," Troyer said.

Humberto Navarrete, 51, a financial manager who lives a block from the coffee shop, said he was in a nearby AM/PM minimart Sunday morning when two baristas from the coffee shop ran into the store.

The two young women, who were crying and upset, said a gunman had come into the coffee shop and stood silently at the counter, Navarrete said.

One of the women said she asked the man if she could help him, but he remained silent before opening his coat, grabbing a gun and turning and firing at the officers, Navarrete said.

Both baristas said they ran out through the back door.

They said they heard more shots as they ran to one of their cars and drove to the minimart, Navarrete said. As they left, they saw one of the officers wrestling with the gunman, Navarrete said.

One of the baristas phoned 911 and the other called her husband using Navarrete's cellphone, Navarrete said.

The gunman was described as a black man in his 20s or 30s, between 5-feet-7 inches and 5-feet-10-inches, and ran north on Steele Street South after the shooting. He was wearing a black coat over a gray hooded sweat shirt and bluejeans, Troyer said.

Police took a man into custody at a Parkland house nearby after he apparently called 911, claiming to be the shooter. But the man was not linked to the crime, Troyer said.

Dozens of officers were searching the area near the coffee shop, including the parking lot of Evergreen Self Storage. Troyer, carrying an assault rifle, told members of the media, "this is kind of a hot area, so you're kind of on your own."

He urged the reporters not to roam off and assigned three officers to stand near the media.

Troyer later said that the interest in the storage facility came because of a hoax in which a man in Tacoma had called his girlfriend and other people and falsely claimed responsibility for the shooting. The man was later arrested on suspicion of obstructing a police investigation.

At least a dozen officers also surrounded a nearby house and remained there throughout the day. Three cars were parked in the driveway but there was no indication whether anyone was inside the property.

Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna said he had directed his office to help in the investigation, including the Homicide Investigation Tracking System and the unit's criminal investigators. That system includes a central repository for detailed information on violent crimes occurring in Washington and Oregon.

Brad Carpenter, CEO of Forza Coffee, met with the two young baristas after they were interviewed by police and said they were "shaken up." The slain officers were "well-known to our staff," Carpenter, a retired police officer from Oakland and Gig Harbor.

"It's supposed to be a safe haven for everybody," Carpenter said about the coffee shop.

Police seized a white pickup parked in a nearby parking lot and took it away on a flatbed truck.

The shootings come about a month after the killing of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton, who was targeted for being a police officer when he was gunned down while sitting in his patrol car the night of Oct. 31.

A $100,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest in the Lakewood officer's deaths.

Forza Coffee is in a strip mall across the street from McChord Air Force Base and at a crossroads between Parkland and Lakewood, with a mix of residences and industrial businesses.

Immediately after the 911 call came in, police from Lakewood, Tacoma, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department and other jurisdictions raced to the area.

"I have never seen this many scramble to a particular spot, ever," said David Gabrielson, 27, who works as clerk at a gas station near the coffee shop.

Troyer said officers "were self-dispatching from multiple agencies" to help. He also said law enforcement had not received any threats or warnings.

"We don't know if this is related to other shootings around the country or the one in Seattle," Troyer said. "It could be because someone saw this happening around the country and got himself ramped up."

Earlier in the day, Troyer said a KING-5 TV helicopter was interfering with "tactical operations" of police investigating the shootings, slowing down the search for suspects. The pilot had been asked to leave and refused, but KING apparently called off the helicopter.

Monty Norman, 44, of Lakewood works at a carwash and detailing shop three blocks from the Lakewood Police Department headquarters. Officers come in the shop every day to have their cars cleaned.

"It's just crazy. Just insane. Words can't explain. It's just a bad feeling, We see them [officers] every day. They're really good people," Norman said.

According to the department's Web site, the Lakewood Police Department has 123 staff members including 120 commissioned officers.

In a statement, Gov. Chris Gregoire expressed condolences for the family and co-workers of the slain officers. "I am shocked and horrified at the murder of four police officers this morning in Pierce County. Our police put their lives on the line every day, and tragedies like this remind us of the risks they continually take to keep our communities safe.

"I offer whatever support is needed to the Pierce County Sheriff in their search for the perpetrator of this terrible crime."

Initial research suggests the shooting of four police officers in Lakewood ranks as the worst attack on law enforcement in state history.

Nationally, the worst incident involving law-enforcement casualties is the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Reports from that incident say 60 police officers were killed, though the circumstances differ. Officers and other emergency workers responding to the attacks died in the course of rescue attempts as opposed to direct confrontations with assailants.

In March of this year, four Oakland, Calif., police officers were fatally shot - the worst casualty count in that state since 1970, when four highway patrolmen were killed.
Seattle Times staff reporters Sara Jean Green, Mike Carter, Steve Miletich, Bob Young, Jack Broom, Jennifer Sullivan and Jonathan Martin contributed to this report. Jonathan Martin: 206-464-2605 or jmartin@seattletimes.com. Information from the News Tribune of Tacoma is included in this report.

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Investigators identified the dead attacker as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, of Mesquite, Texas, a military veteran who'd served in Afghanistan.

Police searched his home Friday and found bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a personal journal of combat tactics. They are analyzing information in the journal, police said in a statement.

Investigators determined Johnson was "the lone shooter in this incident," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said, confirming what federal officials had told CNN.

"This was a mobile shooter who had written manifestos on how to shoot and move, shoot and move, and that's what he did," Rawlings said at a news conference.

"As we've started to unravel this fishing knot, we've come to realize this shooting came from one building at different levels."

Rawlings said investigators' initial confusion about the number of shooters was partly because about 20 protesters wearing protective vests and carrying rifles scattered when the shooting started.

Authorities said three suspects were in custody earlier Friday, but later told CNN they had been questioned and released.

'Well-planned' attack

Dallas police Chief David Brown provided more details during a prayer rally Friday.

"Through our investigation of some of the suspects, it's revealed to us that this was a well-planned, well-thought-out, evil tragedy," he said.

Nobody has been charged, Gov. Greg Abbott said, but police want to make sure every lead is investigated.

The deadly gunfire erupted in Dallas after videos showing two African-American men shot by police in Louisiana and Minnesota spurred protests and debate over police use of force across the country.

Five police officers were killed and seven others wounded in the ambush. It was the deadliest single incident for U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001. Two civilians were also hurt, the Dallas mayor's office said.

Johnson killed by bomb

As officials condemned the attack, details emerged about the man who died after a lengthy standoff with police in a parking garage.

Johnson told police negotiators that he was upset about recent police shootings, that he wanted to kill white people -- especially white officers -- and that he acted alone, the police chief said.

"We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was," Brown said. "Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger. The suspect is deceased as a result of detonating the bomb."

Johnson had no criminal record or known terror ties, a law enforcement official said.

He served in the U.S. Army Reserve from March 2009 to April 2015, training as a carpentry and masonry specialist, according to Pentagon records. Johnson was deployed for about seven months in Afghanistan, from late 2013, and received an honorable discharge.

Johnson's neighbor, Wayne Bynoe, said police cars were outside his home Friday. Johnson lived with his mother and kept to himself, Bynoe said.

Johnson had at least two weapons with him -- a rifle and a handgun, two law enforcement officials said.

One of the officials, familiar with the latest information from the Dallas police investigation, said the rifle was an SKS semi-automatic. The other official said Johnson legally bought multiple firearms in the past.

Witnesses said protesters were marching peacefully in downtown Dallas when the gunfire started Thursday night.

The Rev. Jeff Hood, one of the protest organizers, said he saw two officers go down, then watched a sergeant running toward the gunfire.

"I ran the opposite direction. I was concerned about the 700 or 800 people behind me," he said. "I was screaming, 'Run! Run! Active shooter! Run!' And I was trying to get folks out as fast as I could."

Crowds ran into a parking garage,witnesses said, and spilled out after word spread a sniper was nearby.

"Everyone was screaming, people were running," said witness Clarissa Myles. "I saw at least probably 30 shots go off."

Police initially said at least two snipers fired "ambush-style" from an "elevated position" before they exchanged gunfire and negotiated with a suspect, later identified as Johnson, for hours at a parking garage in downtown Dallas.

Before authorities killed him with an explosive, Johnson told negotiators more officers were going to get hurt, and that bombs were planted all over downtown.

Police found no explosives during sweeps of the area, Dallas Police Maj. Max Geron said.

The victims

The five slain officers were identified on Friday.

Dallas Police Officers Lorne Ahrens, a 14-year veteran of the department, and Michael Smith, a 27-year veteran, were both killed, according to local media reports and Smith's sister, who spoke to CNN affiliate KFDM.

CNN affiliate WDIV said Dallas officer Michael Krol was killed. The last two officers were Dallas officer Patrick Zamarripa and DART Police officer Brent Thompson.

Police have said at least 10 officers were shot by a sniper and one officer was shot in a shootout at the parking garage. It's not clear where the 12th officer was shot.

A few of the wounded officers remain hospitalized, police said. Brown called for the community to support them.

"We don't feel much support most days. Let's not make today most days," Brown said. "Please, we need your support to be able to protect you from men like these, who carried out this tragic, tragic event."

The suspects

Though authorities said they're sure Johnson was the only shooter, they don't know if he had accomplices.

"I'm not going to be satisfied until we've turned over every stone," Brown said. "We've got some level that this one suspect did do some of the shooting. But we're not satisfied that we've exhausted every lead," he said. "So if there's someone out there who's associated with this, we will find you, we will prosecute you, and we will bring you to justice."

The Dallas police chief told reporters it's too soon to speculate on the suspect's motives, and it's unclear whether more suspects are on the loose.

Other shootings of police

Three other shootings endangered police around the same time.

In Bristol, Tennessee, a man opened fire on motorists early Thursday at a motel and along the Volunteer Parkway, killing a woman and wounding three people, including a police officer, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.

The TBI said a preliminary investigation reveals the suspect, Lakeem Keon Scott, 37, may have targeted individuals and officers after being troubled by recent incidents involving African-Americans and law enforcement officers in other parts of the country. Witnesses said they heard someone yell, "Police suck! Black Lives Matter!" before bullets were fired, the TBI said.

Scott was wounded by police, arrested and questioned at a hospital, the TBI said.

In the St. Louis area, a police officer was shot in the back of his neck Friday morning by a suspect stopped for a speeding violation, Ballwin Police Chief Kevin Scott said. The officer was walking back to his patrol car when the suspect ran toward him, firing three shots from a semi-automatic handgun, Scott said. The suspect was arrested and the office was in critical condition, Scott said.

In Valdosta, Georgia, a police officer was shot Friday morning by a man who placed a 911 call, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. The officer, who is now in stable condition, went to an apartment complex to check on a reported car break-in and was shot twice when he exited his patrol vehicle, the GBI said.

The officer returned fire and wounded the shooter, who was identified as the caller and arrested. The GBI said there was no connection to the Dallas shooting.

A number of police departments across the country, including Chicago, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, decided that officers should be paired-up for an indefinite period. Chicago police said the move was made "to increase visibility and strengthen officer safety."

The protests

The shootings occurred as many Americans nationwide took to the streets to demand answers over the killings of two black men by police in two days.

In Minnesota, crowds gathered near the spot where an officer killed Philando Castile in a car Wednesday.

Hundreds of miles away, protesters marched outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Alton Sterling was fatally shot Tuesday while police tackled him in a parking lot.
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Both killings were captured on video and posted online.

In Minnesota, the shooting of Castile was remarkable -- and heartbreaking -- because his fiancée streamed the immediate aftermath live on Facebook.

As her 4-year-old sat in the back seat, Diamond Reynolds calmly narrated what was going on and showed viewers the dying man groaning and bleeding in the front seat.

Castile, a school food services worker, was shot in Falcon Heights, outside Minneapolis, when a police officer pulled him over because of a broken taillight, said Reynolds, who was in the car with him.

"He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm," she said as she broadcast the Wednesday shooting on Facebook.

"Oh God, please don't tell me my boyfriend is dead," she said.

Falcon Heights contracts with the City of St. Anthony Park for police services. Friday, Black Lives Matter held a new conference and called for Falcon Heights to terminate that contract.

Baton Rouge shooting

Sterling, 37, was killed Tuesday near a convenience store in Baton Rouge, where he regularly sold CDs and DVDs.

A homeless man approached Sterling on Tuesday and asked for money, becoming so persistent that Sterling showed him his gun, a source told CNN.

The homeless man called 911 and police arrived at the store. Police tackled Sterling to the ground, and shot him several times, video shows.

A law enforcement source told CNN that the officers pulled a gun from Sterling's body at the scene. No further details were provided on the type of firearm.

The convenience store quickly became the site of protests. Flowers and signs piled up in a makeshift memorial. Protesters chanted "Hands up, don't shoot," the line made famous in the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, about two years ago. Brown was also shot by a police officer.

Protests against police shootings were held in most major cities, including Chicago and New York, Thursday night.

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Dallas shooting: 5 officers die, suspect ID'd

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Investigators identified the dead attacker as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, of Mesquite, Texas, a military veteran who'd served in Afghanistan. Police searched his home Friday and found bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a personal journal of combat tactics. They are analyzing information in the journal, police said in a statement.

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Four black men face assault charges in connection with the beating of a white Alabama high school student who had posted pro-police comments online, police confirmed Wednesday.

The men, all former Sylacauga High School students, were arrested Tuesday after the Sept. 30 attack against 17-year-old Brian Ogle, Sylacauga Police Chief Kelley Johnson told reporters. Police have said the attack may have been racially motivated.

Ogle's mother, Brandi Allen, says her son responded to students wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts at his school with "Blue lives matter," a defense of police officers. Officers found him bleeding on the ground after a homecoming football game.

He was hospitalized with serious head injuries.

Twenty-year-old Quartez Walker and 19-year-old Bobby Brown were arrested at Stillman College. Eighteen-year-old La Noah Ealy, Jr. was arrested at Auburn University in Montgomery. Twenty-year-old Daveon Nix was arrested in Sylacauga.

Nix is the son of Sylacauga District 2 City Councilwoman-elect Tiffany Nix, The Daily Home reported.

"Instead of us planning for his 18th birthday, we're here. Why? Because he made a statement that he backs the blue? I'm still trying to understand how someone, no matter the color of their skin, can do this to another human being," Allen said as her son recovered in the hospital. "I don't wish any harm on anyone's child. I would like for them to have to look at my child right now. I don't want any other mother to have to go through what I went through these past few days."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Four men arrested in attack on Alabama teen who said 'Blue lives matter'

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Four black men face assault charges in connection with the beating of a white Alabama high school student who had posted pro-police comments online, police confirmed Wednesday. The men, all former Sylacauga High School students, were arrested Tuesday after the Sept. 30 attack against 17-year-old Brian Ogle, Sylacauga Police Chief Kelley Johnson told reporters.

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Police use new training tactics to avoid deadly shootings

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Following two years of highly publicized deadly shootings by police officers, some police departments around the country are looking into new training methods they hope will not only reduce the number of officer-involved shootings, but also keep their officers in the field safer. NewsHour Special Correspondent Chris Bury reports.

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Activists intent on bringing an end to violence against African Americans have organized under the banner of "Black Lives Matter," a protest movement that developed in response to a series of police killings of unarmed black people nationwide.

Now, the Memphis-based branding agency Tactical Magic is rolling out a national pro-police campaign on the basis of a similar mantra: "Blue Lives Matter," according to NBC News Connecticut and other outlets. The Louisiana-based Lamar Advertising has donated more than 300 billboards to the cause, which has so far has spread to Memphis, Tenn., Toledo, Ohio, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Hartford, Conn.

"We wanted to recognize the local police departments and men and women that put their lives on the line everyday," Stephen Hebert of Lamar Advertising told NBC Connecticut. "I don't know how they do it and we just wanted it to be part of the community."
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The billboards includes the hashtag #THANKUBLU, which is also the name of an Instagram account that features of the billboards. The intent of the campaign may be laudable, but the timing and pattern of the message has been interpreted by some as an effort to co-opt, diminish, or damage the significance of the original movement.

Some Republican lawmakers have been accused of similar counter campaigns using the phrases "All Lives Matter," or "Christian Lives Matter." It's a deliberate attempt to tarnish "Black Lives Matter" by turning it into an inflammatory or even hateful anti-white expression, according The New York Times editorial board, which recently called out specific comments by Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

"This effort to Co-Opt the Black Lives Matter Movement is totally unnecessary," Scot Esdaile, President of Connecticut's NAACP, told NBC Connecticut. " We have many friends in the Law Enforcement Industry; and the community and police do not have to be at odds!!! It's imperative that we work together and not continue to fuel tensions!"

The "Blue Lives Matter" campaign appears to be spreading, promoted by police unions in response to a series of a mbush killings of police officers. Late last month in Los Angeles, for example, about a hundred local officers joined community members for a flag-waving march through Hollywood. Many of the marchers wore shirts emblazoned with "Blue Lives Matter."

"This is just the beginning of a nationwide campaign," Jerretta Sandoz, vice president of the 10,000-member Police Protection League, told The Los Angeles Times. "We've reached out to police unions in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and many other cities and they are all on board."

She continued, "Now, we're searching for a unifying catch phrase and symbol that will send this message: Enough is enough."

That message may have arrived in the form of "Blue Lives Matter."

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Four Heroes Dead In Under 24 Hours - Their Lives Mattered

It's a difficult time for members of law enforcement as of late and there is nothing harder for the men and woman in blue than to lose one of our own. We are particularly saddened that four officers have died just hours apart. Here are their stories:

Sergeant Allen Brandt

In Fairbanks, Alaska on October 16th, Fairbanks Sergeant Allen Brandt responded to a shots fired call, one of the most dangerous calls to which an officer must respond. Once in the area, Sgt. Brandt observed a suspect later identified as Anthony George Jenkins-Alexi . As Sgt. Brandt exited his vehicle to confront Jenkins-Alexi, the gunman shot Sgt. Brandt five times in the leg and once in the chest. The round to the chest hit the officers bullet proof vest, causing shrapnel to strike him in the left eye. Jenkins-Alexi fled the scene in Sgt. Brandt's police vehicle but was later apprehended. Sgt. Brandt, 40, married with four children, died on Friday from complications related to his surgery.

Days after he was shot, Sergeant Brant told a chilling story about how on the night of his shooting, before going to work, he told his family that he thought he was going to get shot that night:

Sergeant Allen Brandt's life mattered.

Officer Myron Jarrett

In Detroit, the police community lost another officer, the second in the past two months. On Friday night, Detroit Officer Myron Jarrett, an eight year veteran, was struck by a vehicle while investigating an unrelated accident. Detroit Free Press reported that as Officer Jarrett and two other officers were performing an investigation, a vehicle driven by Steven Guzina sped toward the three, striking a police vehicle and Officer Jarrett who was thrown 30 feet. Guzina, who according to a report from WXYZ was separated and had issues with crack and alcohol, fled the scene but was soon apprehended after a massive manhunt. Officer Myron Jarrett, married and a father of four, died of complications from being struck by a vehicle during the performance of his duties. "His service to the community was important", Detroit police chief James Craig said. "He did make a difference."

Officer Myron Jarrett's life mattered.

Detective Jason Schweitzer

In Lexington, Kentucky early Saturday morning, Louisville Metro Detective Jason Schweitzer, a fifteen year veteran of the force, was standing on a sidewalk giving directions to a pedestrian when both were struck and killed by a drunk driver. According to the Courier Journal, police arrested 26 year old Suzanne Whitlow, charging her with two counts of manslaughter and one count of driving under the influence. Last December Whitlow reportedly posted on Facebook that she was "replacing my heart with another liver so I can drink more and care less." Detective Schweitzer, married with one child and was expecting a second, died from injuries sustained after being struck by a drunk driver.

Detective Jason Schweitzer's life mattered.

Officer James Brockmeyer

Late Friday night, Officer James Brockmeyer, with Chester Police Department, was killed in a crash while pursuing a fleeing vehicle in Chester, Illinois. Brockmeyer had only worked for the department for about 10 months. He had just graduated from the Southwestern Illinois Police Academy in April. Not only was he a police officer in the small community but served also as a volunteer firefighter. "He was a very well-respected man in the community," the chief of police said. "Dedicated and a true professional."

Officer James Brockmeyer's life mattered.

These four public servants were, above all else, people; husbands and fathers. Their lives mattered to the wives who will struggle to continue without a husband. They mattered to their children who will grow up without a father.

America has lost four heroes; lives cut short while honorably serving their communities. Their lives also mattered to us in the law enforcement community and to our nation as a whole. When an officer falls, a nation loses a hero.

They paid the ultimate sacrifice and we must never forget them.

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Four Heroes Dead In Under 24 Hours - Their Lives Mattered It's a difficult time for members of law enforcement as of late and there is nothing harder for the men and woman in blue than to lose one of our own. We are particularly saddened that four officers have died just hours apart.

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About Blue Lives Matter - Blue Lives Matter

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North Royalton Officer Stabbed In The Face

North Royalton, Ohio - Two officers were involved in a shooting Friday night after one of the heroes was repeatedly stabbed.

Two North Royalton officers contacted a man in an attempt to serve a probate order. The officers reportedly wanted to pick up the man and take him to the St. Vincent Charity Hospital. The suspect suddenly grabbed a knife and started stabbing one of the officers. The injured hero as stabbed in the face and the leg before the second officer took down the suspect with at least one gunshot.

The conditions of the officer and suspect are both unknown at this time, except that the officer is alive.

The past few months, there has been an officer stabbed in the face on a seemingly monthly basis. While these attacks had caused some serious damage to the officers, thankfully the past face stabbing events have rarely been fatal. Hopefully the involved officer is able to fully recover from this attack.

You can see details on two of the recent attacks with officers getting stabbed in the face and .

This is a developing story and we will update you when we have more.

Scene of officer-involved shooting in North Royalton. PD says suspect was shot after he stabbed officer in face and leg. @WEWS @hickey_megan pic.twitter.com/wNLMahmbK1

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Police Catch Enrique Velez Soliciting Sex With A Baby

Stafford, Texas - Police monitoring an internet chat room caught Enrique Velez soliciting sex with a baby.

36-year-old Enrique Velez is behind bars after police caught the disturbed man in an internet chat room trying to find children to have sex with. Police were monitoring the chat room, looking for pedophiles like Velez when an officer posing as a single mother struck up a conversation with him. The officer told Velez that they have an 8-year-old child.

Velez told police that his girlfriend was out of town and she left him in charge of watching her 1-year-old and 5-year-old son. He told the police officer decoy that they could meet at a hotel and have sex with the two children. To show that he was serious about the meet up, Velez sent photos of the 5-year-old naked in the shower to police in the chat room.

Authorities state that Velez then left the 5-year-old boy in his apartment and drove 45 miles to the motel where police were already waiting on him. Police found the 1-year-old baby in the car with Velez. Officers found the 5-year-old still in the apartment. The children were not harmed.

Velez was charged with sexual performance by a child is currently in the Fort Bend County Jail without bail.

Parents, please be careful who you leave your children with. This situation could have turned out much, much worse. Police all over the world are constantly catching child predators. In August, New Jersey police did a state wide sting and arrested 40 pedophiles in 37 cities.

Are you concerned about sex offenders in your area? The National Sex Offender Public Website, coordinated by the DOJ, can help you find sex offenders in your area. While this website gives you access to the most accurate publicly available sex offender databases, the list may not list all sex offenders in your area.

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The Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings have caused an uproar among leftists because they fuel their narrative that racist white police officers are hunting down innocent black men. But the statistics - brought to light by the superb work of Heather Mac Donald - tell a different story.

Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.

1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or "were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force," according to Mac Donald in a speech at Hillsdale College.

Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 13 percent of the population. But as Mac Donald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties.

"Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers' own risk of using lethal force," writes MacDonald.

MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that blacks "commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime" in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city's population.

"The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black," MacDonald said. "Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods."

2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. According to Mac Donald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers.

"If we're going to have a 'Lives Matter' anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named "White and Hispanic Lives Matter,'" said Mac Donald in her Hillsdale speech.

3. The Post's data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man...but this does not tell the whole story. In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. But Mac Donald points out in The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:

The "unarmed" label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer's gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post's "unarmed black victims" category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths.

In one of those unintended cases, an undercover cop from the New York Police Department was conducting a gun sting in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City. One of the gun traffickers jumped into the cop's car, stuck a pistol to his head, grabbed $2,400 and fled. The officer gave chase and opened fire after the thief again pointed his gun at him. Two of the officer's bullets accidentally hit a 61-year-old bystander, killing him. That older man happened to be black, but his race had nothing to do with his tragic death. In the other collateral damage case, Virginia Beach, Virginia, officers approached a car parked at a convenience store that had a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. The suspect opened fire, sending a bullet through an officer's shirt. The cops returned fire, killing their assailant as well as a woman in the driver's seat. That woman entered the Post's database without qualification as an "unarmed black victim" of police fire.

Mac Donald examines a number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and Prince George's County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer's holster. In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually "jumped the officer" and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was "fearing for his life." MacDonald also notes that there was an instance in 2015 where "three officers were killed with their own guns, which the suspects had wrestled from them."

4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Greg Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.

5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. According to Mac Donald, the police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person.

Despite the facts, the anti-police rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and their leftist sympathizers have resulted in what Mac Donald calls the "Ferguson Effect," as murders have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of being labeled as racists. Additionally, there have been over twice as many cops victimized by fatal shootings in the first three months of 2016.

Anti-police rhetoric has deadly consequences.
This article has been modified to correct Greg Ridgeway's name.

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The Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings have caused an uproar among leftists because they fuel their narrative that racist white police officers are hunting down innocent black men. But the statistics - brought to light by the superb work of Heather Mac Donald - tell a different story.