2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
| 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers | |
|---|---|
Screenshot from a video showing Micah Johnson in front of El Centro College, on the Lamar Street side | |
| Location | Main Street and S. Lamar Street, Dallas, Texas, U.S |
| Coordinates | 32°46′46.4″N 96°48′15.4″W / 32.779556°N 96.804278°W |
| Date | July 7, 2016 8:58 p.m. – 2:30 a.m. (CT) |
| Target | Police officers in Dallas |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, shootout, ambush |
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| Deaths | 6 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 11 (9 officers, 2 civilians) |
| Perpetrator | Micah Xavier Johnson |
| Motive | Anti-police sentiment, anti-white racism |
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghan War veteran, was angry over white police shootings of black men. He shot the officers at the end of a protest against the recent killings by police of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
Johnson fled to a building on the campus of El Centro College, where police killed him several hours later with a bomb attached to a remote-controlled bomb disposal robot. It was the first time U.S. law enforcement used a robot to kill a suspect.
The shooting was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11 attacks, surpassing two related March 2009 shootings in Oakland, California, and a November 2009 ambush shooting in Lakewood, Washington, each of which killed four police officers and the gunmen. It was the second-deadliest targeted attack of U.S. law enforcement officers in history; and the largest since the Young Brothers massacre of 1932 killed six officers in Missouri.