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DALLAS POLICE AMBUSH

5 POLICE OFFICERS WERE SHOT DEAD BY A SNIPER DURING A BLM PROTEST

12 white police officers were involved in a shooting. 5 of them were shot dead and 7
other police officers were injured. It happened during a BLM or Black Lives Matter
Protest. The shooting coverage unfolded in the city of Dallas Texas last Thursday
night,July 7 2016.The sniper is said to be a 25-year old former army named Xavier
Johnson. The Dallas Police Department cornered and negotiated with him for hours.
Johnson said that he wants to kill white people especially white officers because of racial
issues. This tragic ambush attack follows the killing of black people by white police
officers in Minnesota and Louisiana. He said that he did all the shootings alone but the
witnesses claimed that more than one sniper is involved because of the vast and
constant gun sound on the area. Later on, the police exchanged gunshots with him.Police
officer Chief Brown confirmed Johnsons Death after being shot by a police bomb-carrying
robot. This is the first time that the US Police used a robot to shoot a person. This
ambush created an uproar to even reach the concerns of President Barack Obama and
Donald Trump. Trump said that racial issues have gotten worse, and not better. Donald
Trump and Hillary Clinton even cancelled their flight campaigns near the area.

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