11 officers shot, 4 fatally during Dallas protest over police shootings

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4 Dallas Officers Killed at Protest Over Shootings by Police

Dallas police officers responded after shots were fired during a protest on Thursday.

Chief Brown said the shooting was carried out by two snipers who fired down on a demonstration in the city’s downtown area that until then had been peaceful.

They “planned to injure and kill as many law enforcement officers as they could,” Chief Brown said.

“Some were shot in the back,” the chief said. “We believe that these suspects were positioning themselves in a way to triangulate on these officers.”

A civilian in the crowd of almost 1,000 people was also wounded.

Graphic footage aired on a Dallas television station appears to show a mass shooting suspect opening fire on an unidentified individual during a shootout Thursday evening.

The police were also combing downtown Dallas for what they believe was a bomb planted by the snipers as the heart of the country’s ninth-largest city was put on lockdown.

The chief said he had contacted the F.B.I. and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for help in the investigation.