Multiple officers killed at Dallas protest over police killings

Multiple police officers have been killed during a protest in Dallas over shootings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Three Dallas police officers were killed and seven others were wounded, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said in a statement.

One Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer was fatally shot, the agency tweeted.

It's not clear if Brown included the DART officers in his tally.

Brown said two snipers shot the 10 from elevated positions during a protest. Two officers are in surgery and three are in critical condition. No suspects were in custody.

Three other DART officers were also shot. Their injuries are not considered life-threatening, DART said.

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'Everyone was screaming'

The shooting happened as protests were underway about two blocks from Dealey Plaza. Video showed the crowd suddenly sprinting away.

CNN affiliate KTVT reported that two Dallas officers were shot. CNN could not immediately confirm that information and it's not clear if they were referring to the DART officers.

Witness Clarissa Myles said she was eating at McDonalds when the chaos began.

"Everyone was screaming, people were running," she said. "I saw at least probably 30 shots go off."

"I was walking next to the officer who was helping with the protest, all of a sudden I saw six to eight shots," one witness told the station. "It looked like two officers went down."

Another witness who was at the protest told the station he heard multiple gunshots.

"Whoever was shooting had an assault rifle — and I know guns. The shots were in rapid succession," the witness said.

Video showed numerous police officers crouching behind vehicles. Others approached a location holding protective shields.

The shootings occurred as Americans across the nation vented their anger over the police killings of two black men in two days.

They chanted outside the governor's residence in St. Paul, Minnesota, miles from the spot where an officer killed Philando Castile in a car on Wednesday while a 4-year-old girl sat in the back seat.

Crowds milled in the streets outside the convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Alton Sterling was fatally shot while police grappled with him in a parking lot Tuesday.

Protesters briefly shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago. In New York, 1,000 people marched down Fifth Avenue and a few scuffled with police officers.

They all came out to vent their rage at yet more slayings of black men at the hands of police officers.

"We are targets!" LaRhonda Talley said in an impassioned speech in Minnesota about the danger of being black in America. "We made it across the (Atlantic). We made it to freedom and you're still killing us. You're still hanging us from trees. You're still killing us! Our lives matter!"

Source: CNN

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