2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
| 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers | |
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| Location | Main Street and S. Lamar Street, Dallas, Texas, United States |
| Coordinates | 32°46′46.4″N 96°48′15.4″W / 32.779556°N 96.804278°WCoordinates: 32°46′46.4″N 96°48′15.4″W / 32.779556°N 96.804278°W |
| Date | July 7–8, 2016 8:58 p.m. – c. 2:30 a.m. (CT) |
| Target | Police officers in Dallas |
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Attack type
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Mass shooting,hate crime, shootout |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 6 (including the perpetrator) |
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Non-fatal injuries
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11 |
| Perpetrator | Micah Xavier Johnson |
| Motive | Anger about recent police shootings, anger towards white people |
| Micah Xavier Johnson | |
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| Born |
c. 1991 Mississippi |
| Died |
(aged 25) Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Blunt trauma resulting from explosion |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | U.S. Army reservist, caregiver |
| Motive | Anger related to police shootings |
 "Memorial Service for Slain Dallas Police Officers", C-SPAN, July 12, 2016 |
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and fired upon a group of police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five officers and injuring nine others. Two civilians were also wounded. Johnson was an Army Reserve Afghan War veteran who was reportedly angry over police shootings of black men and stated that he wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers. The shooting happened at the end of a peaceful protest against police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, which had occurred in the preceding days.
Following the shooting, Johnson fled inside a building on the campus of El Centro College. Police followed him there, and a standoff ensued. In the early hours of July 8, police killed Johnson with a bomb attached to a remote control bomb disposal robot. It was the first time U.S. law enforcement used a robot to kill a suspect.
The shooting was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11 attacks, surpassing two related March 2009 shootings in Oakland, California and a November 2009 ambush shooting in Lakewood, Washington; both of these incidents each killed four officers.
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