11 Dallas Officers Shot, 3 Dead in Shooting as Protest Ended

Source: NBC News
Published: Jul 8, 2016
Author: Phil Helsel
Post Date: 2016-07-08 00:22:19 by Roscoe
Views: 28499

Eleven Dallas law enforcement officers were shot, three fatally, by what is believed to be two snipers who opened fire during a demonstration downtown over recent police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, the Dallas police chief said.

The snipers fired from an elevated positions on police officers minutes before 9 p.m., Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters.

"We believe that these suspects were positioning themselves in a way to triangulate on these officers from two different perches in garages in the downtown area, and planned to injure and kill as many law enforcement officers as they could," he said. Some were shot in the back.

Three of the 11 officers died, two are in surgery and three are in critical condition, Brown said.

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#34: A K A Stone    To: Deckard (#25)

Your post makes it sound like you are not celebrating because because the police state is ramping up. But you are happy the officers were killed. Are you happy or sad that the officers were unjustly murdered?

A K A Stone posted on 2016-07-08 08:53:18   Reply   Private Reply

#35: Deckard    To: A K A Stone (#34)

But you are happy the officers were killed.

Learn to read.

Are you happy or sad that the officers were unjustly murdered?

I don't know them personally so I am neither happy or sad.

However I do feel bad for their families.

Deckard posted on 2016-07-08 08:54:36   Reply   Private Reply

#36: misterwhite    To: Justified (#16)

"Innocent people die because we have a shit president ruining this country from head to toe!"

Yep. Our first black President who will finally unite the country. Tell me things have not gotten worse.

But I blame the press. Time after time they misreport what actually happened when a black person is shot. It started with Trayvon Martin, then Ferguson, now the Freddie Gray case is crumbling.

misterwhite posted on 2016-07-08 08:55:20   Reply   Private Reply

#37: Roscoe    To: Deckard (#33)

Second, the adage "you reap what you sow" applies here.

Continue celebrating your false moral equivalency.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 08:56:05   Reply   Private Reply

#38: Deckard    To: Roscoe (#37)

Continue celebrating your false moral equivalency.

Continue displaying your lack of reading comprehension skills.

Deckard posted on 2016-07-08 08:57:06   Reply   Private Reply

#39: Roscoe    To: Deckard (#38)

you reap what you sow" applies here.

You can barely contain your joy at the murdered police officers getting what you think they should reap.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 09:00:38   Reply   Private Reply

#40: A K A Stone    To: Deckard (#35)

What did the fallen officers sow? To reap death?

A K A Stone posted on 2016-07-08 09:00:41   Reply   Private Reply

#41: A K A Stone    To: Roscoe (#24)

Maybe it was in hindsight.

A K A Stone posted on 2016-07-08 09:03:03   Reply   Private Reply

#42: A K A Stone    To: Deckard (#35)

So you are not saddened when police officers kill someone unjustly?

A K A Stone posted on 2016-07-08 09:04:12   Reply   Private Reply

#43: Pinguinite    To: GrandIsland (#15)

You sound like MSM, when after an active gunman shooting, the shooter was discovered to be a libtarded democrat.

And you sound like a delinquent 10th grade high school student who cannot help but post profanities and insults as a response to anyone and everyone. It's too the point where don't bother reading your entire posts, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 09:04:13   Reply   Private Reply

#44: Roscoe    To: A K A Stone (#41)

hindsight

Hah! I'll give you a point for that one.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 09:04:32   Reply   Private Reply

#45: Deckard    To: Roscoe (#39)

You can barely contain your joy at the murdered police officers

You're full of shit.

Deckard posted on 2016-07-08 09:06:13   Reply   Private Reply

#46: A K A Stone    To: Pinguinite (#43)

I think people are talking past each other. Not able or willing to see the other sides valid points. We've been succesfully divided.

A K A Stone posted on 2016-07-08 09:06:29   Reply   Private Reply

#47: Pinguinite    To: Roscoe (#18)

You're disappointed there weren't more police officers killed.

Ros, either you are hopelessly ignorant, or you hopelessly bitter.

I have *never* celebrated the killing of a police officer, so your statements is gross libel.

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 09:06:52   Reply   Private Reply

#48: redleghunter    To: Roscoe (#8)

http://pic.twitter.com/95mL6l3M1q

Unbelievable. Shared out widely.

redleghunter posted on 2016-07-08 09:08:42   Reply   Private Reply

#49: A K A Stone    To: Roscoe (#18)

When you say stuff like that you make my point about talking past people and just making talking points. I understand this stuff justly angers you. However there is no reason enrage people with such unjust speculation. If you are honest with yourself you would admit what you said isn't true. Can't cut and paste with this tablet to quote you.

A K A Stone posted on 2016-07-08 09:10:58   Reply   Private Reply

#50: Roscoe    To: Pinguinite (#47)

I have *never* celebrated the killing of a police officer

Do you think that the murdered officers reaped what they sowed?

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 09:11:53   Reply   Private Reply

#51: Pinguinite    To: Deckard (#25)

The snipers acted unwisely. It was a peaceful protest and what the shooters did will have the effect of ramping up the police state even further.

Indeed. The basic problem is that cops are constantly indoctrinated to the level of paranoia into believing that everyone will try to kill them at any opportunity. This is why the CC holder was shot and killed after he, in accordance with the law, informed the cop he had a gun and then reached for his license, also as instructed.

If he hadn't informed the cop he had a gun, he would have been fine. He died because of a law that is in place to protect cops from honest, law abiding people. (Obviously the law won't do anything to protect cops from lying thugs). And now the cop who shot that guy might also be serving serious time in part because of that same law that's supposed to protect him.

But cops are conditioned every day to think that people are out to kill them. And now with this event in Dallas, it has become a self-fulfilling prophesy. I would venture that the majority of cops are good people, and those killed today had no personal involvement in the shootings being protested. Ergo, most of the cops shot &/or killed are/were probably good people.

And now there will likely be more shootings by cops of innocent civilians because of even more heightened paranoia.

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 09:17:46   Reply   Private Reply

#52: Roscoe    To: Pinguinite (#51)

cops are constantly indoctrinated to the level of paranoia

That didn't take long. Thanks for outing yourself.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 09:19:31   Reply   Private Reply

#53: Pinguinite    To: A K A Stone (#46)

I think people are talking past each other. Not able or willing to see the other sides valid points. We've been succesfully divided.

Certainly an accurate assessment.

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 09:20:28   Reply   Private Reply

#54: misterwhite    To: Roscoe (#50)

The BLM protest was about the recent shootings in New Orleans and Minnesota.

So they execute Dallas cops? For all we know, race relations were just fine in Dallas. I say "were".

misterwhite posted on 2016-07-08 09:20:40   Reply   Private Reply

#55: Pinguinite    To: Roscoe (#50)

Do you think that the murdered officers reaped what they sowed?

I think the culture of paranoia that is within the police community has fostered events like in Dallas for the reasons already stated. A year or 2 ago, 2 police officers were shot and killed as they sat in their cruisers by some guy who apparently went to NY just to kill cops. The motive seemed to be the killing of the guy by a cop who put him in an illegal strangle hold. I don't remember names well. Was that the guy who was allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes or whatnot?

In spite of the illegal chock hold resulting in death no charges. Kinda like Hillary Clinton. Well, no. Not kinda. Exactly like HC. So many other incidents as well. To get charged, it has to be blatant, like the cop that shot the guy in the back as he was running away from him, and he probably was just unlucky that he was being filmed doing so. Even shooting people in the back as they are restrained on the ground is only sometimes prosecuted.

To answer your question, I don't even know the names of the cops killed in Dallas yesterday, much less a single thing about their history or temperment, so I have no idea what they sowed. But I'm sure that won't stop you from posting more libel about my state of mind, will it.

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 09:31:32   Reply   Private Reply

#56: Roscoe    To: Pinguinite (#55)

I think the culture of paranoia that is within the police community has fostered events like in Dallas for the reasons already stated.

Deckard-lite.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 09:33:35   Reply   Private Reply

#57: Pinguinite    To: Roscoe (#52)

cops are constantly indoctrinated to the level of paranoia

It's a true, factual statement.

What's that private outfit that teaches cops how to shoot people at the slightest suspicion that their life is in danger? And then goes around offering legal defence for them after an innocent person gets shot and killed?

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 09:33:45   Reply   Private Reply

#58: Roscoe    To: Pinguinite (#57)

It's a true, factual statement.

It's a load of steaming bullshit.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 09:34:54   Reply   Private Reply

#59: Pinguinite    To: Roscoe (#56)

Deckard-lite.

More insults... Or attempts, in this case.

I think you and GI are just pissed that there has finally been blowback against cops. Doesn't fit your view of an ideal world where cops can shoot anyone they want with impunity. Is that it?

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 09:37:07   Reply   Private Reply

#60: Roscoe    To: Pinguinite, A K A Stone (#59)

finally been blowback against cops.

Called it.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 09:38:54   Reply   Private Reply

#61: A K A Stone    To: Pinguinite (#59)

When you say finally blowback it makes it sound like you justify it whether you do or not. Especially the word "finally". Just trying to shoot straight.

A K A Stone posted on 2016-07-08 09:43:31   Reply   Private Reply

#62: redleghunter    To: GrandIsland (#17)

It's going to be New Black Panthers, Black Liberation Army or a splinter from either one.

The cameras should be in front of Louis Farrahkan today. He foments this crap often.

redleghunter posted on 2016-07-08 09:54:09   Reply   Private Reply

#63: Pinguinite    To: A K A Stone (#61)

When you say finally blowback it makes it sound like you justify it whether you do or not. Especially the word "finally". Just trying to shoot straight.

I'm not saying that and I don't think that's what it sounds like. It's a similar situation with US foreign policy of killing with drones and such in the mideast and elsewhere against "terrorists" but which too often kills innocent people. Friends and relatives of those innocent people become "radicalized" and then take up a cause of militant revenge, get labeled as terrorists and the cycle continues.

If one is going to be obligated to call one unjust killing unjustified, without being obligated to call other unjust killings unjustified, then that's a double standard, and that makes people take the law into their own hands. That's blowback. Will Roscoe, GI and others dare even suggest that the killing of the CC holder *might* be unjustified?

Will I be called to the mat on my statement, while they are given a free pass on theirs?

I guess I should formally ping them because I mention them, but they don't care what I have to say or think so I won't bother...

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 09:54:23   Reply   Private Reply

#64: Roscoe    To: Pinguinite (#63)

You just couldn't help outing yourself.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 09:56:21   Reply   Private Reply

#65: Pinguinite    To: Roscoe (#64)

You have reached the point of being so terse, you say nothing.

A quick count shows you've managed to write about 24 words over 5 posts. Less than 5 words per post, if you're math challenged.

Obviously your are quite literally, "at a loss for words".

When you can post something coherent and meaningful, check back.

Pinguinite posted on 2016-07-08 10:01:03   Reply   Private Reply

#66: Roscoe    To: Pinguinite (#65)

You're blathering.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 10:03:47   Reply   Private Reply

#67: ConservingFreedom    To: A K A Stone (#49)

[to Roscoe:] I understand this stuff justly angers you. However there is no reason enrage people with such unjust speculation. If you are honest with yourself you would admit what you said isn't true.

Thanks for the dose of sanity, A K A Stone.

ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-07-08 10:45:26   Reply   Private Reply

#68: redleghunter    To: Deckard (#35)

Unbelievable.

redleghunter posted on 2016-07-08 10:45:47   Reply   Private Reply

#69: Roscoe    To: ConservingFreedom (#67)

Your posts have more red flags than a Soviet military parade.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 10:48:35   Reply   Private Reply

#70: misterwhite    To: Roscoe (#66)

"You're blathering."

No, no, no! You need to build up your word count. (Not that there's a quota. But we're counting, anyways.)

Next time try, You are a drooling, blathering idiot". See? You just went from two words to six.

misterwhite posted on 2016-07-08 10:55:54   Reply   Private Reply

#71: redleghunter    To: A K A Stone, Deckard (#46)

I think people are talking past each other. Not able or willing to see the other sides valid points. We've been succesfully divided.

Well said.

I think this dialogue would be different if police officers in LA and MN were in a fire fight. Not Dallas where the dept there worked with the protest organizers.

Then, Deckard's "reap what you sow" might have had application if and only if the officers involved in the shootings of black men were those under fire.

Deckard, if your point is that the police nationwide are indiscriminate in their shooting of citizens and the group who murdered police officers last night indiscriminately killed cops is the 'reaping', then what you are promoting is lawlessness.

A lot of these 'cops shooting civilians' situations end up with acquittals or dismissals for a reason. Some reasons cited above by other posters. The officers are usually white and cases tried in left leaning Black Democrat held city governments with Black judges and somehow the police officers get their case dismissed or they are exonerated. Why is that? Baltimore is case #1. Then we have Chicago as case #2.

In Chicago we have complete lawlessness in many neighborhoods. The City is run by Leftists and minorities. The police have been intimidated to the point where they will not patrol crime rotted neighborhoods. Why because they know they have a target painted on the squad car and backs. End result? More dead Black people from Black on Black crime.

redleghunter posted on 2016-07-08 10:57:58   Reply   Private Reply

#72: Roscoe    To: misterwhite (#70)

"According to Brown, police cornered Micah Johnson and negotiated with him for several hours. When talks broke down – they exchanged gunfire with the man. At that point, police sent in a remote vehicle and detonated a bomb – ultimately killing him."

There should be a memorial built for the bomb squad robot.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 11:17:27   Reply   Private Reply

#73: Roscoe    To: misterwhite (#70)

Not that there's a quota. But we're counting, anyways.

Yeah, it's creepy. Waiting for him to post a spreadsheet.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 11:18:58   Reply   Private Reply

#74: misterwhite    To: Roscoe (#72)

"There should be a memorial built for the bomb squad robot."

Poor baby. Took one for the team. But IF the bad guy also had a robot .....

misterwhite posted on 2016-07-08 11:27:36   Reply   Private Reply

#75: ConservingFreedom    To: Roscoe (#69)

Your posts have more red flags than a Soviet military parade.

You're blathering.

ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-07-08 12:05:27   Reply   Private Reply

#76: Roscoe    To: ConservingFreedom (#75)

You're projecting.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 12:13:14   Reply   Private Reply

#77: Stoner    To: Roscoe (#0)

" 11 Dallas Officers Shot, 3 Dead in Shooting as Protest Ended "

I have to wonder if Obunghole will use this to again promote " gun control / gun confiscation ", and / or to facilitate his bringing UN Troops to the US ?

Stoner posted on 2016-07-08 13:00:48   Reply   Private Reply

#78: ConservingFreedom    To: Roscoe (#76)

I was blathering by agreeing with A K A Stone? Nut up and tell him so to his face.

ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-07-08 13:01:52   Reply   Private Reply

#79: Roscoe    To: ConservingFreedom (#78)

"Posts" is plural. And now you're transparently begging for help.

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 13:15:29   Reply   Private Reply

#80: Roscoe    To: Stoner (#77)

I have to wonder if Obunghole will use this to again promote " gun control / gun confiscation ", and / or to facilitate his bringing UN Troops to the US ?

Roscoe posted on 2016-07-08 13:19:55   Reply   Private Reply

#81: Stoner    To: Roscoe (#80)

LOL !

Stoner posted on 2016-07-08 14:17:27   Reply   Private Reply

#82: A K A Stone    To: Pinguinite (#63)

I know that isn9'$t what you meant. It just kind of came across that way in my opiniaon. Like they finally got what was coming.

A K A Stone posted on 2016-07-08 14:37:58   Reply   Private Reply

#83: ConservingFreedom    To: Roscoe (#79)

now you're transparently begging for help.

I stated agreement with A K A Stone and you butted in with off-topic jabbering. One of us needs help and it ain't me.

ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-07-08 15:23:20   Reply   Private Reply