A grand jury said Wednesday they will not press charges against any of the Dallas police officers involved in using a bomb robot that killed the gunman who murdered five officers in a 2016 Black Lives Matter demonstration.
In a “Weekend of Honor,” the City of Dallas will reflect on the first anniversary of the tragic police ambush that left five officers dead last summer.
Although Texans experienced together the sniper-attack of officers in Dallas in July at a Black Lives Matter protest, Texans’ opinions on the larger movement are still divided along partisan lines.
One year ago, Harris County Deputy Sheriff Darren Goforth walked out of a convenience store to his patrol car and was gunned down in cold blood by a man who snuck up behind him in the dark. Police say there appears to be no other motivation for the shooting than he was wearing a uniform and a badge.
On his radio program last night, Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter Aaron Klein confronted the co-founder of a radical black gun club that espouses Black Panther ideology regarding the organization’s rhetoric purportedly encouraging violence against police officers. Klein
Veteran of the 1960s civil rights movement and former Mayor of Atlanta, Andrew Young, offered some blunt advice to a room full of fatigued Atlanta police officers, saying, “Don’t let anybody get you upset.”
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian posted a pro-Black Lives Matter letter on her website Friday about how she does not want to have to warn her son to “watch his back” or be “scared of police,” after five police officers were shot and killed and seven more wounded at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, Texas.
Long Beach, California-based rapper Snoop Dogg held a press conference Friday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck outside the Los Angeles Police Department’s headquarters, where the Grammy-nominated artist said, “We are here to show love and support to the Los Angeles Police Department.”
“Too many of our elected officials have had a hand in fostering this sentiment and allowing undercurrents to exist,” said Rep. John Fleming (R.-La.), medical doctor, whose district includes Baton Rouge, the city where Thursday police shot and killed Alton Sterling.
