ChawlieTheFair
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Calm and calculated.
Shots fired at Police during Dallas Police anti-violence protest (5 officers killed)
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Calm and calculated.
i don't know if it was so much the fire to the left to draw him that direction. at that range, the sound of any shot could of came from either side of the pillar.
i think the cop saw him walking one direction and planned on dropping him when he came past. but the guy just said, nope, and went the other way. but the way he advanced...didnt just seem like luck of choosing sides. he knew what he was doing.
Police shooting innocent people is inexcusable and can not be tolerated.
At the same time I am deeply afraid that these kinds of intentional shootings of cops can actually turn the tide of public opinion and get someone like Trump elected president, which would then in my opinion make the problem worse and further exacerbate the real problems.
At the same time I am deeply afraid that these kinds of intentional shootings of cops can actually turn the tide of public opinion and get someone like Trump elected president, which would then in my opinion make the problem worse and further exacerbate the real problems.
you've been a litle behind in your posts, but yes. One suspect was a woman, in addition to 2 guys from 1-35 and the shooter in the video i believe.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Police can be innocent too, you know.
Cindi Mayweather
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This won't get Trump elected.
There were possibly 4 people involved in the shooting. 3 were arrested, one shot himself.
Hughes was a person of interest who the media "accidentally" started treating as if he was a suspect. He was a protestor with a gun (the shooting happened after a protest), so naturally people thought it was him, but footage proved that he was just standing around while the shooting started. He turned himself in to the police to sort it all out and was let go but he's been getting death threats.
DPD getting shot at is not going to make hispanics and black people vote for Trump. Trump cannot win with the white vote alone.
comshoplesce
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Faith got banned quickly......
youngplaya21
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I'm a black male in Dallas (currently working night shift), and this shit is terrifying. My apartment is 3 miles from the parking garage, and the streets and the highway are shutdown. My gf could hear the shots from the apartment.... Can't even go home now
Nearly all police departments issue M4s or AR-15 derivatives after the North Hollywood shootout, where two suspects in heavy body armor suits and AK type rifles just shrugged off a hail of pistol rounds and buckshot from less armored, less armed police.
Cabbagehead
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Go about you're day but be aware that things are hot. But you shouldn't just stop living you're life.
Yeah, dude was a professional. Firing on the left side and then immediately flanking to the right was some insane ex-military shit or something. Even people trained in firearms would seriously hesitate to just round the corner like that in case the cop was facing the other direction.
Also 5 people were murdered while essentailly defending/supporting protesters.
shitposting in front of a mod has that effect
It's the morning in the UK, everyone is watching America right now.
The government there should really take a look at guns
It's 3 AM here. What are you even talking about. I don't think it is critical for people to go clubbing or anything in downtown Dallas right now. If you don't feel it is safe to be in the area, don't be in the area.
Holy shit, I FINALLY see what u guys are talking about - that's totally one of the shooters.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
The composure is what stands out the most to me. This person was in a firefight with multiple police officers at the same time. And they just cruised along like it was nothing.
Thanks for answering. Any sand speculation as to why this happened based on the coward who killed himself?
We don't have to let anything happen like that. We didn't need to be here now but we chose not to deal with it. But the opportunity is still here. We can still make things change for the better. We just can't let those around us who are basing their life on fear make our decisions.
this is a strange post that seems to make the casualties of these officers a mere inconvenience for the poster
Cabbagehead
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Why are people assuming that i don't know that other police department don't have a stock pile of weaponry? its the reason why the NRA argument that police or other would be alive if they had better more lethal guns or more guns period.
Jesus christ
I'm talking in a general sense jesus neogaf.
I'm really confused as to how this can help Trump. All it does is embolden his base that hates black people, but it can't possibly get him new followers. He couldn't even get positive attention from Orlando, and that was basically ISIS.
Cindi Mayweather
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How does going home immediately after work and my boyfriend sleeping over because I'm scared mean I'm not living my life?
Trump will mishandle this and make an ass of himself within the next 24 hours, likely multiple times. Don't worry about the election.
Yup but not all officers are issued or trained with carbines in the US. Same thing here, only every other officer had a carbine while that cop who got shot in the back had nothing but what looks to be a sidearm,
comshoplesce
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excelsiorlef
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No.
They plastered that guy's picture, it spread across the country, and they won't apologize or publicly clear them.
This is a tragedy but they still have a job to do, and their job isn't to plaster innocent people's faces and it's especially not their job to do that and not fix it.
didn't know so quickly....maybe a warning 1st?
dude knew what he was doing, and in such a volatile thread too
Professor Lich
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Can't say for sure but first bans usually are a warning for members.didn't know so quickly....maybe a warning 1st?
SchrodingerC
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Not much information beyond he wanted to kill more police officers, and something about the end is near.
It was a coordinated sniper attack that primarily targeted the police.
More info will probably come from his accomplice.
Cabbagehead
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Speaking as a hispanic who primarily interracts with poc the consensus I have between locals/ friends/ family is this kind of violence, either way, was always a real possibility long before Trump was even a thing. That LEO were actually attacked is something people always say would eventually happen but.. well.. we didn't exactly think it would happen. Not like this. Trump is just a silly racist piece of shit and his candidacy is a joke that went too far. What happened here is something removed from fleeting talking points or elections.
That said I'm trying to convince people to vote. Unfortunately most of them aren't going to even bother voting.
with that knowledge. and i don't want to get ahead of the evidence we have, because i would love to speculate all day but i'm truly at a loss of what kind of group would do this.
i look forward to official reports of who these guys/girls are.
Aarglefarg
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Maybe I'm wrong for thinking it's implied, but the implication of a lot of people calling it 'counterproductive' in various different words is that BLM supporters did it. This type of speculation about specific political motives is natural but not good.
didn't know so quickly....maybe a warning 1st?
One should not need to be warned not to gloat that police were being killed
You don't have to tell me that. I'm a black dude in North Georgia.
Usually when their is chaos people vote for the person that can best keep them safe. Based off of previous events like this shooting and trump's perosnality people will want to vote for the safer option more which is Hilary.
I hope the families of the officiers who were killed or injured are doing okay.
Cindi Mayweather
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Yeah uhhh...this been brewing before Trump. This has been brewing for literally decades. We don't know all the details, but this has nothing to do with the election cycle.
Professor Beef
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lifeexpectancy
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Let's please not make this tragedy about who might be president?
Besides, Trump and Clinton are both idiots in their own way. Either way America is fucked in some shape or form.
TheShocker
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I'm a cop. I don't think that's implied. Shame on anyone who does. I feel that Dallas PD and the BLM protest were a scheduled and unified event. The people that did this are monsters and IMO do not represent the what was supposed to take place.
DiscoJer
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Is it really a strange post? In the US today, any interaction you have with the police can result in you being killed and your killer suffering no penalty besides administrative leave. If you are black, you happen to be more likely to have an interaction with police and be more likely to die from it.
These are things that affect the life of almost everyone. It's much more than a mere "inconvenience".
Police reform in this country is an important issue, and something like this, while a personal tragedy for those that know the officers killed, has the potential to be a worse tragedy for those killed in the future because police reform was pushed to the side.
Cabbagehead
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Basically, it's such an advanced country in so many sectors flawed with backwards laws and thinking
manfestival
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with all due respect can we keep the trump/hillary commentary for the other 100 threads about it? I am kind of tired of that conversation splintering into every thread. Feeling pretty angry about this happening the more I watch coverage. Time to turn everything off
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
This is all true, but you have posts in this thread pointing how well the DPD has retrained their officers in recent years to much success. Blanketing them under the entire umbrella of US police is ingerently false.
Agree 100%. The counter productiveness comment for now is just because of the shooters using the event for their actions. In the current climate and until everything is cleared the uncertainty and doubt will feed all rumors.
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