Shots fired at Police during Dallas Police anti-violence protest (5 officers killed)

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commedieu

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It wasn't an anti-police protest. Jesus Christ. Keep fanning those flames. Media is loving all of the bullshit. Shit is getting out of control. Can't believe this week.

Read what Ryan Posted, its the mentality. ASking police to be accountable = anti-police or opposition. Part of the problem, but this is about to get terribad.
 

TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I love how the New York Post pretends they know what this was about. absolutelydisgusting.gif
 

sphagnum

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAzy37yzodk

Probably the most intense footage I've seen from the event yet, civilian footage from inside a parking garage. You can very briefly see what I think is the shooter running away in the distance to the left around the 0:12 mark, but the rest is just tension from the people stuck in the middle of it.

I feel so drained.
 
wait it didn't seem like that before?
I mean it did, especially with the Philando Castile video, but this is very much the "shit just got real" moment for me. As much as it sucks to say, I've gotten used to not expecting much to change after seeing more black men shot by cops. This though, this is something else.
 

Pancake Mix

Copied someone else's pancake recipe
This is statistically not true, the world is better than it's ever been. But media makes us hyper aware of tragedies like this and it strikes fear into the population. The world is ultimately getting better, but there's a lot of shit that still needs fixing.

Not buying it, for example in the US IIRC the crime rate's all-time low was in the mid-2000's and it's higher now.

Globally, now we havs ISIS, Syria, the refugee crisis, this situation, and more.

The world economy has never recovered from the late 2007-2009 global financial crisis. Good jobs are harder to come by, which is partially a negative effect of globalization.

China is trying to bully its neighbours, and then there's Russia behaving like they are ready to make it one minute to midnight on the Doomsday Clock.
 

Tagyhag

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The cover certainly is trashy as fuck, but that term "Civil War" may not be far from the truth if things continue.

I think some of you guys are blowing this out of proportion.

It would take a lot, and I mean a lot, before the country descends into literal civil war.

I'm talking simultaneous LA Riots that are across the entire nation, and they'd each have to be bigger than what that was.
 

Media

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and now he's talking some bullshit about BLM. yeah i guess i'll just go to bed.

He sounds like he's 'trying' to be impartial and just saying what he heard (went on to saw that all the protesters were peaceful and waved at him)

But that moth shit is kinda creeping me out.
 

kmag

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Europe is not the USA
God forbid the cops were not armed when this shooting started, how many dead would we have then, not just police officers but innocent people just trying to make progress through peace?

UK police aren't routinely armed, but almost every other police force in Europe carry firearms (excluding some local police like the municipal police in France)
 

HK-47

Oh, bitch bitch bitch.
Not buying it, for example IIRC the US crime rate's all-time low was in the mid-2000's. Now we havs ISIS, Syria, the refugee crisis, this situation, and more.

The world economy has never recovered from the late 2007-2009 global financial crisis. Good jobs are harder to come by, which is partially a negative effect of globalization.

China is trying to bully its neighbours, and then there's Russia behaving like they are ready to make it one minute to midnight on the Doomsday clock.

None of what you said actually refutes what he said.
 
I mean it did, especially with the Philando Castile video, but this is very much the "shit just got real" moment for me. As much as it sucks to say, I've gotten used to not expecting much to change after seeing more black men shot by cops. This though, this is something else.

Which may be these attackers underlying point in all of this. Other then their fatalistic ideologies and willingness to kill for whatever reason. Though at the end of the day, what did they accomplish? other then that human beings can kill others regardless of their uniform.
 

ChawlieTheFair

pip pip cheerio you slags!
I think some of you guys are blowing this out of proportion.

It would take a lot, and I mean a lot, before the country descends into literal civil war.

I'm talking simultaneous LA Riots that are across the entire nation, and they'd each have to be bigger than what that was.

Seriously. This is a tragic event, but people need to quit it with the hyperbole, some of these posts are reading like total nonsense.
 
During the interview they asked are the cops going to go out in front of the media and clear their names. They didn't get an answer, then it seems Mark was handcuffed again after asking for his property back.

Like I said, they are going to do their due diligence to check everything at this point. I am sure there is an entire procedure to this that is gonna suck for him.

They called him a suspect on Twitter and they STILL haven't taken down the tweet.

https://twitter.com/DallasPD/status/751262719584575488

They should definitely take down the tweet at this point, but wasn't he a suspect because people reported him (and the fact he was carrying an AR-15) to the police? It's an unfortunate situation that I hope gets rectified, but he was technically a suspect at that point right?

And yes, I understand that he had given his gun up to the cops but I think it is a bit much to expect every single officer and social media manager to know stuff like that in the middle of that chaos with shooters still at large.

They tried to trick him into confessing to a crime he didn't commit. If it wasn't for that twitter video showing it was impossible for him to be involved, he could've been in a whole lot of trouble. Hell, he already is, thanks to way he was plastered all over the news.

How did that go down? Is there an archived video?

I mean sometimes they are going to make pointed questions, because that is the best way to get a clear and concise answer to clear someone's name. Police questioning is always like that in my opinion, even for something as simple as reporting your own damn wallet lost. It is annoying and frustrating of course, but that's their job.

Just to be clear, I think they fucked up putting his photo out that quickly but in the heat of the moment I don't think it is fair to call it disgusting or try to pin ulterior motives to the department. They were basically stuck in a chaotic warzone with active shooters on the loose. If someone comes up and tells them they have video of someone shooting, they are going to look into it and take it seriously.
 
dartmedia ‏@dartmedia 1m1 minute ago
DART grieving the loss of Ofc Brent Thompson, 43, killed during Thurs protest. First DART officer killed in line of duty. Joined DART 2009.

Shit, they are releasing names of the dead now

Dallas Police Depart ‏@DallasPD 12s12 seconds ago
It has been a devastating night. We are sad to report a fifth officer has died.

Dallas PD now confirming the 5th death
 

Pancake Mix

Copied someone else's pancake recipe
None of what you said actually refutes what he said.

If you don't think bad things are bad, then sure.

In the real world, the fact that we have smartphones and PS4's now doesn't change the fact that we're worse off than we were 10 years ago in the West.
 
CBS saying police told them they have the "outcome that they wanted" with the standoff shooter. The flashbang from earlier was probably a SWAT team moving in.
 
That front page is distasteful but it's the harsh truth.

What "harsh truth". This wasn't an anti-police protest, the police helped the protesters plan and guard the event for fucks sake. That's not even to mention how insanely irresponsible it is to call this the start of a "Civil War". we don't even know who did this.
 

cordy

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CBSN saying it's over. Police got the ending they wanted is what they are reporting.

Nah they didn't with 5 officers dead but this is as best as they could past that I'm guessing. Horrible horrible night.

RIP to those we've lost in duty. This never solves anything.
 

Tecnniqe

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What "harsh truth". This wasn't an anti-police protest, the police helped the protesters plan and guard the event for fucks sake. That's not even to mention how insanely irresponsible it is to call this the start of a "Civil War". we don't even know who did this.

So the Dallas PD officers participating were protesting themselves?

Please explain how this was an anti-police protest.
Not the text, the image.
 
Like I said, they are going to do their due diligence to check everything at this point. I am sure there is an entire procedure to this that is gonna suck for him.



They should definitely take down the tweet at this point, but wasn't he a suspect because people reported him (and the fact he was carrying an AR-15) to the police? It's an unfortunate situation that I hope gets rectified, but he was technically a suspect at that point right?

And yes, I understand that he had given his gun up to the cops but I think it is a bit much to expect every single officer and social media manager to know stuff like that in the middle of that chaos with shooters still at large.



How did that go down? Is there an archived video?

I mean sometimes they are going to make pointed questions, because that is the best way to get a clear and concise answer to clear someone's name. Police questioning is always like that in my opinion, even for something as simple as reporting your own damn wallet lost. It is annoying and frustrating of course, but that's their job.

Just to be clear, I think they fucked up putting his photo out that quickly but in the heat of the moment I don't think it is fair to call it disgusting or try to pin ulterior motives to the department. They were basically stuck in a chaotic warzone with active shooters on the loose. If someone comes up and tells them they have video of someone shooting, they are going to look into it and take it seriously.

You don't seem to understand.

This is a common tactic, the police say they have absolute proof that they did X, then they dwindle it down, change a few details and get them to admit to the crime but manipulated the details to get false confessions.

It's a common tactic, that's what they were trying to do to him.
 
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