Dallas Shooter Planned Attack for Months, Took 'Opportunity' of Protests, Judge Says

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Source: abc




Dallas Shooter Planned Attack for Months, Took 'Opportunity' of Protests, Judge Says

By Dean Schabner

Jul 10, 2016, 7:20 PM ET





PHOTO: Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, pictured in an undated Facebook photo, was identified as a suspected gunmen in an ambush that left five Dallas law enforcement officers dead.Micah Johnson/Facebook



Micah Johnson had planned his sniper attack on Dallas police for months and practiced combat tactics in preparation, a Dallas official said today.

Johnson opened fire on police during a peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration Thursday night, when marchers were protesting the fatal shootings of two black men by police officers, one in Minnesota and the other in Louisiana. He killed five police officers and wounded nine others.

Dallas County Chief Executive Judge Clay Jenkins said Johnson had been planning and training, and took advantage of the protest because of the high police presence.

"He knew police would be amassing at that scene and he used it as an opportunity to shoot," Jenkins said. .......................

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/dallas-shooter-planned-attack-months-opportunity-protests-judge/story?id=40480000

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Now the Republicans--and others-are using these horrible killings as an opportunity to blame BLM!---all weekend, that is what I was hearing. damn


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(((Cajsa))) ‏@Cajsa 4h4 hours ago

Stuff like this drives me crazy. Why should #BLM be blamed for the actions of a madman?

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[Archae]

1. I saw a brief mention on ABC news of the group or groups Johnson belonged to or supported...

Racist black groups, and "Afrocentrist" groups.

But I haven't seen anything since then.

Now if Johnson had been white, and after his Army discharge joined the KKK or some other far-right group or groups, we'd be all over it.

Yet, I don't see anything about the nutcase black supremacist groups. (And they do exist!)

Just one example:

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/12/1246-frances-cress-welsing.html

[7962]

2. You bring up a point many here choose to ignore.

As well as push the narrative that blacks CANNOT be racists.
The double standard is very much alive here and I dont understand it.

[Chakab]

9. I've notice pattern in your posting. Keeps coming out.

[7962]

15. See post 13.

[NaturalHigh]

13. That double standard is racism in itself.

Yes, many choose to ignore it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[7962]

14. Never looked at it that way. You're right. nt

[IronLionZion]

3. And still be alive

like this asshole



Let's ask why the media likes to focus on the Dashiki pic and sometimes call him Micah X instead of Micah Xavier Johnson or showing his military or american clothing pics

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Media is pushing the story of black power and someone who looks different from us instead of an American military veteran who did this. It can be a very difficult idea to wrap ones head around the fact that the people coming to kill you are living next door and look like anyone else in America. It's a scary thought that many just can't handle.

[Igel]

6. Hadn't noticed any emphasis on the "Dashiki pic".

But it was what he chose for his Facebook profile, so he emphasized it (to the extent that given alternatives, which he certainly had, he took that one as representative).

Most instances of "Micah X" occur in the phrase "Micah X Johnson."

Unlike Malcolm X, no sweetheart, who chose X to avoid having a "slave name." At least he didn't do the fool thing of picking a "Muslim name," unawares that Muslim slavers grabbed more sub-Saharan blacks over time than European Christians did.

[IronLionZion]

7. The point is the illusion that the bad guys look different from the rest of us

when really it's not their looks. It's their intent to kill. And you can't tell who is going to do that by what they wear or how they look.

[Chakab]

11. Your point was some muddled nonsense about the media not covering black supremacist/nationalist

hate groups because of political correctness. The fact is that they don't get coverage because they are largely irrelevant.

RE white nationalist/far right fringe groups. If anything, their danger is understated in the media given the amount of damage that they cause in society. They are responsible for more terror attacks in the US than Islamic radicals since 911, yet when the DHS issued a report addressing the danger, the entire right flipped out with assistance of the media and bullied DHS out of addressing the problem.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/the-other-terror-threat.html

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/8/6/1117242/-Remember-the-DHS-Right-Wing-Extremist-Report

[IronLionZion]

12. Did you reply to the wrong post?

[Chakab]

10. The media doesn't talk about racist black groups? Really?

I take that you don't remember the years of coverage that The New Black Panthers got for allegedly interfering with elections?

...and a serious question. Historically, which groups have had a more pernicious effect on American culture and the ability to hurt more people, white supremacist groups or fringe black nationalist hate groups? You think that might have more to do with the difference in coverage that these groups get than the every present boogie man of political correctness.

This incident was a tragedy and I feel for those officers and their families and I write this to minimize their suffering, but I have to say that it's always interesting to me when somethings happens to kick over the rocks that cover up the veneer of civility on this board so that we can see what a lot of regular members actually believe about race.

[Skittles]

19. can you at least post a credible news source

thank you

[Sunlei]

4. This man was a military Vet, most newer Police are Veterans. One of Our Own!

[cynzke]

5. BLAME OPEN CARRY LAWS!

Now any kook can walk down the street in broad daylight armed to the teeth. But despite the law, don't kid yourselves those open carry laws are for whites only. If it had not been for the crowds, a black man walking on any street in this country armed with an assault weapon would be reported and the police would have at minimum checked him out. Or just simply shoot first, ask questions later. Trying to buy an air rifle in Walmart gets a black man killed.

[Nancyswidower]

8. None of that happened with this guy.

There was an open carry protestor...that handed over his weapon, was questioned and eliminated as a suspect...unfortunately DPD put out his pic as a POI....it did resolve itself safely.... Thank God.

The Walmart case you mention....John Crawford 3rd got "swatted" by Ronald Ritchie...flat out lied to 911.

[IronLionZion]

17. John Crawford III Walmart shooting: Surveillance video released of shopper’s final moments

[crosinski]

16. Excuse me, but he's dead.

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So how do we know this for sure?

Call me old fashioned, but I think if they could have taken him alive, we could have asked him about this in person, and perhaps even if he had any friends who felt the same way, and other important things like that.

This is conjecture, and we'll never know much more now.

[PersonNumber503602]

18. Assuming they are not just pulling it out of their ass (I don't think they are)

I'm going to say they probably found evidence that suggests he was planning it. Maybe letters/emails, photos with timestamps of places he scouted, and other stuff like that. Obviously for any of us who do have this information, we'd have to see it to determine if they are stretching or not. However, I don't think it's fair to say there is no way they could make such a determination.