https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#cite_note-CNN.Killed-14
On July 7, 2016, at the end of a peaceful protest, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot twelve police officers and two civilians in Dallas, Texas, United States, killing five of the officers. Johnson was an African-American Army Reserve Afghan War veteran who expressed his hatred of white people
and was reportedly angry over recent police shootings of black men. The
protest was being held against police killings in the aftermath of the
shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, in the preceding days.
Following the shooting, police confronted Johnson at a parking garage, and a standoff ensued. In the early hours of July 8, police killed Johnson with a bomb attached to a bomb disposal robot. Some experts believe it was the first time in U.S. history a robot was used by police to deliver lethal force.
The shooting was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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