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Dallas shooter had grand plans, Police chief

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8 years ago

July 10, 2016

Dallas shooter had grand plans, Police chief

Dallas Police Chief David Brown has informed that the shooter of five police officers at a rally in the city two days ago was planning a bigger offensive with the mindset that what he was doing was justifiable.

“We’re convinced that this suspect had other plans and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to target law enforcement — make us pay for what he sees as law enforcement’s efforts to punish people of color,” Brown said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”

The Police found bomb-making materials and a journal at the shooter’s home which suggested he’d been practicing detonations and appeared ready to take aim at larger targets.

Brown said the shooter, Micah Johnson, “obviously had some delusion. There was quite a bit of rambling in the journal that’s hard to decipher.”

Police are “trying to figure out what those initials mean, but we haven’t determined that yet,” Brown said.

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