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Angry, Paranoid and Trained to Kill: How America Made the Baton Rouge, La., and Dallas Shooters
In the past two weeks, cops in Texas and Louisiana have been ambushed, shot and killed by black men who reportedly were tired of the senseless killings of unarmed black men, women and children by police. I say “reportedly” because we won’t ever know. Both men in question—Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, and Gavin Long, 29—were killed…
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Dallas Gunman Micah Johnson Did Not Have 'Large Stockpile' of Bomb Materials, Officials Say
The gunman behind the attack that killed five police officers in Dallas did not have a “large stockpile” of materials to make a bomb in his home, two officials told the Associated Press Friday. Contradicting earlier claims that Micah Xavier Johnson had enough explosives in his possession to implement a larger attack, the officials, who…
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Killsplaining: Whether White Supremacist Cop or Wayward Teen, No One Asks to Be Murdered
We are starting to become a nation of excuses. A nation that shoots first and then looks through your personnel file to explain away why the shooting was valid. I am not a fan of uncovering the past of a person who was unjustifiably killed. If a person is killed by a rogue police officer…
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5 Things That Show America Has Gotten Worse Since Dallas Shootings
It has been less than a week since the “newsplosion” of the police-shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the ambush of five Dallas police officers, and America is still in recovery mode. There have been the obligatory calls for healing, ubiquitous photos of black people hugging white police officers and a few…
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Micah Xavier Johnson: 5 Questions About the Alleged Dallas Sniper
If police and media reports are to be believed, Micah Xavier Johnson is a killer. Not only is he a killer, but he is the archnemesis of all that is good in the world because he planned an intricate plot to murder Dallas police officers in retaliation for the white supremacist police state’s systemic slaughter of black…
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Parents of Dallas Shooter Micah Johnson Break Silence
The parents of the now-deceased gunman responsible for a rampage in Dallas that killed five officers have broken their silence, detailing in an exclusive interview with The Blaze on Sunday how Micah Xavier Johnson’s behavior changed after he was discharged from the U.S. Army in 2015. Delphine Johnson, the 25-year-old’s mother, detailed how she watched…
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Mark Hughes, Wrongly Identified as Dallas Shooting Suspect, Has Received Death Threats, Is Forced to Run for Life
The worst fear of Mark Hughes, the man who was wrongly identified as a shooting suspect in the Dallas rampage that left five officers dead, has come true. According to a report by the New York Daily News, Hughes and his family were forced into hiding and then forced to run again after they say they were…
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Dallas Shooter Wrote 'RB' on Wall Using Blood, Police Chief Says
The Dallas gunman who shot and killed five Dallas law-enforcement officers and injured several others taunted police during negotiations and seemed to have other plans, “possibly for a larger attack,” Dallas Police Chief David Brown revealed in a Sunday Interview with CNN’s State of the Union, the Washington Post reports. The chief told the network that…
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Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and the Hypocritical Screams of White America After the Dallas Cop Shootings
There was a moment when white Americans felt the dread black Americans live with daily. It happened Dec. 14, 2012, when a shooter entered a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and fatally shot 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7. The notion of safety was shown to be a fraud. The unfairness and vulnerability…