7/7 Dallas Shooting

[MacCruiskeen]

^^Thanks for those.

Remember that sinister photo of Micah Johnson posing in full camouflage uniform, alone, in shooter pose? All on his own? Like "in his mother's basement" kind of thing? It was all over the world's media.



The behaviour of a psycho, a dangerous man.

A crazed loner.

A sick sniper in the making.

Like Travis Bickle or somebody.

Sca-ree.

Now look at this:

Comrades described Johnson (pictured, right) as a bad soldier, and during a shooting test, he returned the lowest possible rank

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z4EWI7iNWA

Army days. Friends and comrades.

"© Facebook". - Who removed that from the solo photo before spreading it all over the media? And who chose the solo photo rather than the one with his buddy?

[stickdog99]

Wow. Yet another total patsy until proven otherwise.

I truly wish this were not now so obvious to me and anybody else with a functioning brain.

How do they nominate these poor individuals (and couples) to take the rap? Do they just use a random patsy generator or can your little sister's FB posts alert them to select you?

[Nordic]

Wow. Yet another total patsy until proven otherwise.

I truly wish this were not now so obvious to me and anybody else with a functioning brain.

How do they nominate these poor individuals (and couples) to take the rap? Do they just use a random patsy generator or can your little sister's FB posts alert them to select you?

The very thing you mention is what creeped me out the most about the San Bernadino op. If it could happen to those poor bastards, slaughtered on a freeway in their underwear, why couldn't it happen to any one of us?

[stickdog99]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... story.html

Retired Army Sgt. Gilbert Fischbach, Johnson's former squad leader in Texas, said the Johnson who craftily changed locations to confuse his enemy was not the same soldier he trained.

"He didn't seem to be motivated or enthused to learn those types of tactics," he said. "These are things he was trained on but never seemed to really care about."

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"He was the goofy guy. He always had something funny to say. He didn't have a care in the world," said Stanlee Washington, who now lives in California. Johnson cared deeply about his friends and family, especially his younger brother who had autism, Washington added.

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"I loved him to death, but that guy was not really a good soldier. There were certain technical skills you need as a soldier that he was lacking, like shooting, if you can believe it," Garner said.

Johnson did poorly in the required rifle test, scoring the lowest rank of "marksman" after shooting at silhouetted targets from as far away as 300 meters, according to Garner, who said he got the highest ranking.

They soon bonded with other young soldiers in the Army Reserve in Texas and formed a clique of mostly white and Latino reservists.

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The school, just a few doors down from where he was stopped, touts courses that include special tactics such as "shooting from different positions," ''shooting around barriers" and "speed & tactical reloading."

Justin J. Everman, owner of the Academy of Combative Warrior Arts, said Johnson took hand-to-hand combat classes but "did not train any firearms with us" and "didn't learn any tactics from us."

Johnson's father recalled conversations with his son about police brutality, the distrust he had of officers and injustice he perceived in the world. But neither of Johnson's parents said he talked about killing police.

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"He said he'd never seen anything like this. He was glad to be here, to know there was a place like this to come and learn," said owner Akwete Tyehimba, whose shop promotes global unity of African people and disavows violence. He gave "no indication that he would even have this train of thinking. He was just a nice, handsome, polite young man."

[stickdog99]

http://www.fox4news.com/news/173699094-story

Micah Johnson was in Fishbach's Army reserve unit out of Seagoville. Fishbach said there was nothing about Johnson to indicate he was an angry man or racist. Johnson reportedly told police negotiators, before he was bombed to death, that he hated white people especially white cops.

“Most of the people he hung out with were white, I mean in the unit everybody kind of got their own little group of people they hung out people they got along with. But Micah -- he got along with everybody, but he had his own group,” Fishbach said.

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“He was a good kid he really was and that’s why it’s so disheartening and so hard for so many that served with him to understand, you know, what happened,” Fishbach said.

[stickdog99]

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-dallas ... eer-2016-7

Dallas police have said that the gunman, Micah Johnson, used "shoot and move" tactics to ambush the officers as a July 7 demonstration over police involved shootings of African-Americans was wrapping up, leading police to believe at first that there was more than one sniper.

"If I remember right, Micah had a really hard time at the range," William Krenn, 28, who served in the Army National Guard until 2014, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. "He did not do well with his weapon. He struggled to pass basic marksmanship."

Krenn, who lives in St. Francis, Wisconsin, provided Reuters with copies of documents showing his military service.

"If I remember right, he was one of the guys who had to continue to go back up to the line to try to qualify with his M16 because he couldn't qualify with it, so I kind of found that interesting after learning that he did that," Krenn said.

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Krenn, who is white, remembered Johnson as an affable if slightly disheveled soldier who got along with his peers of all races during nine weeks of basic training at the Fort Sill, Oklahoma, base in 2009.

Johnson was in the U.S. Army Reserve from 2009 to 2015 and served in Afghanistan. Krenn said that during basic training Johnson occasionally joked about white people, but did so in a light-hearted way and did not appear to harbor racial animosity.

Krenn said Johnson was a careless, even "sloppy" soldier who possibly did not take his training as seriously as others, but he showed no signs of the violence in his future.

Krenn recalled hearing that Johnson was the Dallas gunman.

"I was just so shocked. I was driving my car and I had to pull over because I was full of goosebumps and I was shaking," Krenn said. "I just could not believe that this goofball, light-hearted kid that I went to training with did something so evil."

[stickdog99]

So where did Micah learn how to shoot as if he were 4 snipers again?

http://flcourier.com/2016/07/who-was-micah-johnson/

Those who knew Johnson in the Army say they don’t recognize the pathologically violent racist described in news accounts. He openly spoke of his Christian faith in Afghanistan and often chose to socialize with White soldiers.

“It’s not racism guys,” Heather Brooks wrote on Facebook. “Hate what he did, but don’t hate the man … it was mental sickness unchecked and untreated. He had good in him, we all know he did.”

“If you didn’t hang around him then you wouldn’t understand him,” said a Black soldier who served in the same unit with Johnson. “He wasn’t weird, he wasn’t off, he was goofy. He was almost like a class clown.”

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Other friends said Johnson showed little interest in conversations about racial injustice or the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

Johnson took self-defense classes at the Academy of Combative Warrior Arts in Richardson, Texas for six months to a year. Justin Everman, who owns the business, said the classes only involved hand-to-hand defensive measures, nothing related to weapons training. He said Johnson’s round of classes ended more than a year ago.

[stickdog99]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/16/of ... rials.html

The gunman who killed five Dallas police officers did not have a large stockpile of bomb-making materials at his suburban home, two officials said Friday, contradicting earlier claims that Micah Johnson possessed enough explosives to stage a larger attack.

Officers who searched Micah Johnson's home Friday found small amounts of an explosive known as Tannerite, as well as acetone, which can be used as an accelerant in explosives, according to the officials, who are familiar with the investigation. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

Both Tannerite and acetone are legal and easy to purchase. Tannerite is often found in small targets that emit powder when hit by a gunshot, such as those at gun ranges. Acetone is commonly sold as nail polish remover.



After the July 7 attack, Dallas Police Chief David Brown repeatedly said Johnson had enough explosives on hand to do far greater damage.

"There was a large stockpile," Brown told reporters Monday. "One of the bomb techs called me at home to describe his concern of how large a stockpile of bomb-making materials he had. And according to that bomb tech, he knew what he was doing, and this wasn't some novice."

A day earlier, Brown told CNN that the materials in Johnson's home were "large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area."

A police spokesman declined to comment.

[stickdog99]

Note the lack of mention of how the officer died or who killed him.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local ... 32127.html

One of five Dallas police officers killed during the July 7 ambush in downtown Dallas, Zamarripa graduated from Fort Worth Paschal High School in 2001 where he played second base on the baseball team and played the trumpet in the band.

[stickdog99]

Again, note the lack of detail about how the officer died and who shot him.

http://www.khou.com/news/local/texas/of ... /274919170

Ahrens, 48, and three other Dallas officers – Michael Krol, Michael Smith and Patrick Zamarripa -- died in an ambush-style attack in downtown Dallas on July 7. A DART officer was also killed.

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Krol, Ahrens, and Zamarripa were part of a response team from the southwest patrol division working the protest rally.

Krol and Ahrens were standing by their squad car when the former Army reservist Micah Johnson started shooting. Zamarripa was nearby.

[stickdog99]

http://www.trunews.com/article/what-is- ... as-shooter

Officials at the Cause of Action Institute, a nonprofit government oversight group, are seeking documents they believe may show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is withholding vital information about the Dallas shooter from the public.

Micah Johnson killed five police officers in Dallas July 7 before police killed him with a bomb delivered by a robot.

“Statements about the shootings by President Obama and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson raise questions about the DHS role in responding to the Dallas shooting and whether there is information about the shooter being withheld from the public,” said the group’s president and CEO, former federal judge Alfred J. Lechner, in a statement.

“Because Secretary Johnson appears to be the first public official to confirm that only one shooter existed, it raises questions as to what extent DHS was involved during the aftermath of the shooting and why local authorities were not first in alerting the public.”

“Additionally, discrepancies between statements by President Obama and the Dallas police chief raise concerns that there may be additional information about the motives of the gunman that are being withheld from the public by the Obama administration,” Lechner continued.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown initially said multiple suspects were involved on July 8 and that three were taken into custody, but the DHS secretary contradicted those reports later that day, announcing Micah Johnson acted alone.

“Johnson was the first public official to announce that the gunman was a sole actor,” the group’s FOIA request says, citing a Weekly Standard article. “Because Secretary Johnson appears to be the first public official to confirm that only one shooter existed, it raises questions as to what extent DHS was involved during the aftermath of the shooting and why local authorities were not first in alerting the public.”

,,,

The group seeks July 7 communication records for the DHS Office of the Secretary and the DHS Office for State and Local Enforcement sent to or received from the Executive office of the President, the Dallas police department, the Dallas Mayor’s office, the Texas Governor’s office and the Department of Justice.

Cause of Action Institute is also seeking internal communications records from the two DHS offices regarding the Dallas shooter, as well as all records regarding the gunman since January 1, 2015.

[stickdog99]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/15/health/da ... rspective/

Investigators later learned that Thompson had been shot from behind, ambushed as he rushed toward the sound of gunfire. He died at 8:58 p.m., two weeks after getting married to a fellow DART officer.

What?

From that moment on, Abbott and an intelligence officer at an off-site command post offered tactical advice and hand-drawn maps to Dallas SWAT officers closing in on the suspect. They boxed him into a corner at the end of a hallway -- good for the public's safety, but tough for officers trying to end the siege.

"If officers entered, it is what they call a 'fatal funnel'," Abbott said, referring to a scenario where police have only one way in and out with no protection.

Garages don't have "fatal funnels." And just what was at the end of that dead end hallway?

Along with DART officer Brent Thompson, four others lost their lives.

How?

[backtoiam]

What I want to know is why the media hasn't and didn't swarm the place and flood the television with video and pictures. Why are they not chasing witnesses by the dozens. They didn't even know if they were in a parking garage or a college building for four days. They didn't show us the area where a pound of c4 went off. With all these other mass shootings no endless footage of funerals. 49 people supposedly died at Pulse what happened to those 49 funerals? Same with all the other shootings. I could go on, and on, and on, but you get the picture. The stunning lack of details is, well, stunning. Same pattern with all these shootings.

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supposedly there were two or three hundred people at Pulse. That place has 11 parking spaces best I could count. They could have parked in a lot nearby I suppose as often happens. Why no footage of cars being towed away? Surely there had to be a lot of stranded cars there. Relatives could have picked up some of them but seeing towed vehicles should have been part of it. There was no aftermath footage. We should have seen officers investing the scene for days. Gurney after gurney of bodies being hauled out to a waiting staged line of ambulances and being hauled away because that is how ambulance crews work in mass casualty. They stage the ambulances in a line and the next available ambulance pulls forward, loads up, and hauls ass. Nothing about that situation seemed right to me. The whole situation evaporated into thin air and then it was on to the next shooting. In the past how often did mass tragic events like this fade off the radar in three or four days? They didn't fade off the radar. They got a month of in depth coverage.

[tapitsbo]

Agreed. We got to see a lot more footage of the Turkey event than we do of these goings-on in the West.

[MacCruiskeen]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/16/officials-say-dallas-police-gunman-had-no-large-stockpile-bomb-materials.html

The gunman who killed five Dallas police officers did not have a large stockpile of bomb-making materials at his suburban home, two officials said Friday, contradicting earlier claims that Micah Johnson possessed enough explosives to stage a larger attack.

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[i]After the July 7 attack, Dallas Police Chief David Brown repeatedly said Johnson had enough explosives on hand to do far greater damage.

"There was a large stockpile," Brown told reporters Monday. "One of the bomb techs called me at home to describe his concern of how large a stockpile of bomb-making materials he had. And according to that bomb tech, he knew what he was doing, and this wasn't some novice."

A day earlier, Brown told CNN that the materials in Johnson's home were "large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area."

A police spokesman declined to comment.

Is Dallas Police Chief David Brown being played by the FBI? Being misinformed and fed a line, maybe even being set up to take a fall?

Was Brown himself ever present at any part of the actual crime scene? If so, when exactly? That night? Days later? I don't recall him ever saying he had been.

He has at least explicitly said that he was not present at the "standoff" at the "brick corner" in the "parking garage" second-floor college-corridor.