Micah Johnson: Dallas killer ‘changed’ by military experience

Images from the Facebook page of Micah Johnson showing him giving a 'black power' salute

The shooter who murdered five cops in Dallas was “changed” by his involvement in the US military, his mom has said.

Micah Johnson went from being an outgoing individual to a “recluse”, Delphine Johnson told The Blaze site.

“The military was not what Micah thought it would be,” she said. “He was extremely frustrated.”

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Johnson opened flame at a challenge being held over the passings of African Americans because of police.

The exhibitions, reverberated across the country, took after the police killings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.

Bomb-production material, rifles and a battle diary were found at the home of Johnson, who was himself murdered.

“I don’t realize what to say to anyone to improve anything. I didn’t see it coming,” James Johnson, his dad, told the site.

“I cherish my child with my entire being. I loathe what he did.”

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Dallas police boss David Brown said the majority of the officers are tense after the occasions and that his family has gotten demise dangers.

He said 13 officers utilized power against Johnson amid the stand-off, in which Johnson was executed by a robot bomb.

Executing Johnson was “not a moral quandary”, he said.

“I’d do it once more” to ensure kindred officers, he said.

Mourners at a police car in Dallas

The events will not discourage the department, Mr Brown said, which has seen 12 consecutive years of crime reduction in Dallas.

“We’re going to turn over every rock” to make sure Johnson was the only person planning the attack, he said, and that the department is following “any and all leads”.

Mr Brown suggested angry young black people in the US join their local police departments and try to become “part of the solution”.

“We’re hiring,” he said. “Get off the protest line and put in an application.”

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A photo highlighting a lady in a dress standing serenely before two intensely body-heavily clad cops amid a Black Lives Matter dissent in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is flowing on online networking.

The lady, Ieshia Evans, reacted on Facebook, saying: “I welcome the well wishes and love, yet this is the work of God. I am a vessel!”

Republican hypothetical presidential chosen one Donald Trump, talking at a battle occasion on Monday, specified the occasions in Dallas and said it’s “the ideal opportunity for threatening vibe against police and all law requirement to end promptly”.

“I am the peace competitor,” he said.

Hypothetical Democratic presidential chosen one Hillary Clinton, talking a week ago at the Emanuel AME church where nine admirers were slaughtered the previous summer, said inclination exists in some police offices.

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