The Dallas shootings came as thousands of people marched across America to demand answers over the killings of two black men - Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana - in two days.

The Black Lives Matter protests first began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday, where video footage showed police repeatedly shooting black CD seller Sterling while he was restrained on the ground.

They then kicked off in St Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday, when black school cafeteria supervisor Philando Castile was shot by a police officer as he reached for his ID in his car after being pulled over with his girlfriend. She live streamed the moment a bloodied Castile lay dying in the driver’s seat as the officer continued to point his gun at the pair.
Marchers turned up outside the Minnesota governor Mark Dayton’s residence and demanded for him to ‘wake up’ and talk to them at 3am. They took the yellow police tape from the crime scene and draped it across his gate.

After the shocking footage of Sterling and Castile’s deaths went viral around the world, Black Lives Matters protests broke out in New York City, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, St Paul, Seattle, Washington D.C and other major U.S. cities.

Protesters chanted the slain men’s names and held placards demanding for an end to ‘police brutality’. Other signs said ‘stop police terror’ and ‘no justice, no peace, no racist police.’
n Portland, a white man pulled a gun out on protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally. The man, named as Michael Strickland, claims he was scared for his own life.

Witness Ben Kerensa, 32, was among those who confronted Strickland told RawStory: ‘He swept the crowd a few times with the gun,' said Kerensa. 'I saw him take out the regular clip and slot in an extra-capacity magazine. I saw him chamber a round.’

Anger boiled over in Manhattan, where a group of women protesting the deaths were seen being arrested in Times Square. Dozens more formed a crowd outside the White House in a symbolic protest that saw them wave placards and chant for change.

Tensions continued to escalate in St Paul with 100 people clashing with police in the early hours of Friday morning.

The shooting in Dallas started at 8.45pm on Thursday as hundreds of protesters were marching through Dallas demanding justice for Castile and Sterling.
Police kill sniper after twelve cops were shot - and FIVE killed - during furious nationwide protests over U.S. police shootings of two black men that ended in a four hour stand-off
Twelve police officers were shot and five killed while working at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Dallas Thursday night, by a gunman who said he carried out the attack to revenge the two police-related deaths of black men this week.

Shots rang out at the previously peaceful protest just before 9pm, and witness video shows marchers screaming and fleeing from the scene in horror.

Around 11pm, cops cornered a suspect at nearby El Centro College and attempted to negotiate with him, but four hours later the talks failed and a robot was brought in to detonate a bomb and kill the suspect.

Before he died however, the gunman told the hostage negotiator his motivations behind the attack.

'The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter. He said he was upset about the recent police shootings of black suspects. He said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers,' Dallas Police Chief David Brown revealed at a 7:30am press conference.

Authorities have not yet released the name of the shooter. He allegedly claimed to have acted alone, countering previous reports that as many as four gunmen were involved in the massacre. Three other suspects were taken into custody at the scene Thursday night, but Chief Brown refused to go into detail about these arrests. However, he said that his department is still not certain that everyone involved in the attack.



source:Dailymail.uk

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Not a fan of violence but every thing has a limit and the killing of black people by white policemen in the US has reached its peak.
I wonder what Donald Trump will say about this event, coz it seems if he eventually becomes president it definitely will be the order of th day.
2 separate events in 2 days in 2 different cities only gets to prove that there's a collective mentality about the black race in the US.
Obama on the other hand has his hands tied and can only sit on the fence over an issue as sensitive as this. At a time when his "black folks" need him to speak out/against such violent acts by men who are meant to keep them safe.
And the conspiracies are glaring, first the surveillance video from store in front of where Alton Sterling was killed was seized by the killer cops without a warrant, and they claimed to have killed the sniper in the morning's shooting but still haven't revealed his identity. But 2 weeks ago when a "muslim" killed 49 people in in gay club his name came up immediately and he was tagged a terrorist.
One won't understand the outrage until he/she watches the video of how #AltonSterling was killed "execution" style at point blank range.
The other guy was just trying to reach for his wallet in d glove compartment. And was shot with his 4yr old daughter in the back seat.
All this is happening just after the Democrats tried to restrict easy access to gun purchase. One strong NRA will still see the happen and use the so called second ammendments to deny the push for for legislation that insists a background check b done before selling weapons to people it's that simple.
It's quite unfortunate that the US that has caused war and wrecked other countries is imploding on itself. #KarmaIsAB****, For our fellow Nigerians seeking for greener pastures in the US better have a rethink.