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Shots fired at Police during Dallas Police anti-violence protest (5 officers killed)

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jwhit28

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These brothers are still gonna be destroyed and threatened in social media with the news giving out both of their full names.
 
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MIMIC

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OK, the Dallas Police Department originally called him a suspect, but then amended their description of him as a "person of interest."

-Per CNN's screen cap of the Dallas Police Department's Twitter feed
 
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MThanded

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Media is messing this guy's life up.

Dallas PD did initially call him a suspect. That's a mess.
 
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Chie Satonaka

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Hopefully Mr. Hughes is NOT the shooter and has already surrendered his weapon to the police, because if some asshole gets him and he's innocent, well...
 
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ChrisD

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marrec said:
Ya think he was the only guy open carrying a long rifle in Dallas that day?

:lol okay
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Do you live in Texas? Dallas? If not, Dallas but still in Texas, where? Because I've never seen someone just walking the streets with a friggin' open carry assault rifle in Dallas, or where I live (a city about twenty minutes from Dallas).
 
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marrec

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Dreams-Visions said:
he may have been one of the few in the protest crowd, yes. and the people from the protest are the ones who reported the guy to the cops and gave them the picture.

relax.
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DV I'm fine, I just know why that specific guys picture got spread so fast and not some light skinned dude open carrying, I ain't going crazy.

Point is because of the reporting people even in this thread were already convinced this dude was the shooter. Shit sucks man.
 
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VexMythoclast said:
As a native of DFW, its really disgusting the amount of stereotyping most people here are spewing about the city. It is home to various liberal colleges SMU, UTD, etc. People acting like seeing someone with a gun in public is would be viewed as normal are the same idiots who think all Texans go to work on horseback and a cowboy hat.
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I'm from DFW as well and if I saw someone carrying a gun in public I don't think too much of it. If it's a rifle I'll usually think to myself that the person is just trying to show off or wants attention.
 
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diaspora said:
The state of Illinois is surrounded by states with paltry gun control, sit the fuck down.
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I'm not going to go back and fourth in this thread. I said what I said and I've listened to everyone's counter argument but calm down. No need to act silly and attempt to disrespect anyone.
 
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ampere

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Reminder, DO NOT POST PICTURES

You could be causing an innocent person's face to be plastered on the internet as a possible suspect. It's already happened with one guy tonight (camo shirt guy)

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besada said:
Tomorrow, if that turns out not to be the shooter, everyone who posted his picture is taking a long ban. Feel free to edit it out if you aren't confident in the news you're presenting.
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arevin01

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CNN is really slow, they're still going at the angle that the guy in the picture they have no idea who he is and still a main suspect.
 
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DirtyLarry said:
I so agree with everything he stated in this clip. I have personal reasons for this as well.

My best friend from when I was 4 years old to 27 years old is now a Lieutenant of the Homicide Division in a very large city where I am from in NJ. Needless to say he worked his way up the ranks in the police department, so he started as a plainclothes cop on the beat like most cops do.

We had a falling out when I was 27 and only recently reconnected about 2 years ago. We are nowhere near as close as we once were, but we at least talk again.

His response to the two shootings the past two days has been unreal to me. I know my man. He is smart. Reasonable. He is absolutely streetsmart. Has to be to work in the city he works. But all he does is defend fellow cops no matter what. The typical stuff like "we have families too" and "if you do not comply this is what can happen." It goes on and on and on and on.

I know deep down, especially with the latest shooting of my man whose girlfriend did the live Facebook video, he has to know that was just straight up murder. But he will never say so. Never. And it just boggles my mind as to how that can even be possible. If cops only admitted when a fellow cop was clearly in the wrong it would go so a long way in letting the public know not all cops are like that.

Instead they defend themselves no matter what the situation, and well, that is when shit like this happens.

People have a breaking point. In fact I am surprised they have not reached it yet.
It looks like it may finally have been reached. Shit has the potential to get real ugly if others decide enough is enough across the country. One spark is all it takes. Let's just hope this was not it.
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My father was a cop for 30 years, now retired. He was a cop in a 99% white small town.

He sees these videos and flat out calls them murder and wrong.

Your friend is an ass and a bad cop.
 
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valkillmore

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JK-Money said:
Don Lemon you dumb son of a bitch, he just said he could be involved though there is video of him confused and flustered
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Don just said CBS spoke to his brother, and that he handed in his rifle. Don was just reporting originally what the police chief said, that he was a person of interest.

CNN caught up now.
 
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Syncytia

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MattyG said:
No, you're right to hope that I think. Not that it makes the actions any better if they're not, but you just know that there will be even more hatred and violence if they are.
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I've already seen "#BlackLivesMatter Ambush" crap on facebook.

Before that POI picture was even released, it was just assumed that the shooters were BLM with no information available, whatsoever.
 
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Volimar

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Let's remember that the Police Chief stated during the press conference that he was a person of interest due to witness accounts. They didn't just pick the black guy, they were pointed to him by witnesses. Shitty, shitty witnesses.

Calling him a suspect in their tweet. Yeah that's on them.
 
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XGRaViSmOrSX

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kendrid said:
My father was a cop for 30 years, now retired. He was a cop is a 99% white small town.

He sees these videos and flat out calls them murder and wrong.

Your friend is an ass and a bad cop.
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that's why your dad says that to be honest. He never spent any time in the "real shit" as any city cop would say. The ones who defend this type of shit are the ones who see the anecdotal evidence of the worst of the worst and extrapolate it to mean everyone of that race.
 
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