David Brown is the 28th Chief of Police for the City of Dallas. (Photo : Twitter/Chief David O. Brown)
Ever since Dallas sniper Micah Xavier Johnson killed five cops on Thursday, Dallas police chief David Brown has revealed on Monday that he and his family have been receiving death threats on Facebook. This series of shootings between Johnson and the police have caused tremendous emotional aftershocks for the families of the slain policemen.
"We're all on edge," Chief Brown emotionally said at a news briefing. "We've been asking cops to do too much for this country." Johnson is a veteran in the army and was enraged over the recent police shootings of black men, including Alton Sterling and another person. He allegedly stated that he wishes to kill white people, most especially white officers, according to The Express.
President Obama himself is scheduled to visit Dallas on Tuesday to attend the memorial service to offer his condolences to the families of the slain policemen. He has been recently handling a difficult task of mending the country due to the growing intensity over race and the police.
After his visit in Dallas, President Obama will summon people from all sides of the issue to the White House on Wendesday. The summonned representatives include police and law enforcement, protesters and activists, as well as civil rights leaders. The main objective of this meeting is to discuss and come up with solutions to mend the trust that have been broken between police officials and the citizens.
The dead and wounded victims were brought in at Parkland Memorial Hospital right after the shooting incident. "This has been a turning point in my life, " trauma surgeon Brian Williams said in a news conference. He stated that he regularly cares for victims who were shot, but it felt personal that more black men were dying at the hands of police offers and that it affected him. But he also said that he despises what has been done to the officers.
Lastly, he said that the problem is not individual white police officers, but the lack of discussions pertaining to race in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chief Brown said that there is an incredible increase of pressure among all the law enforcement officials in the country, and had called for the protesters to be a part of the solution by putting an application in instead of violently protesting, which fans the flames of preventable crimes like this.
The shootings occured during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. He left a message on a garage wall with his own blood during the shootout that spelled "RB" before being interrupted. It was likely that he missed one more letter--G--which would stand for Red, Black, and Green: the Pan-African flag's colors, which was a symbol of Black Power.
The mother of the perpetrator, Delphine Johnson, broke her silence in an interview with The Blaze by saying that Micah has changed after being discharged from the army in 2015 on a six-year service in Afghanistan. She stated that the fun-loving boy disappeared when he went home.
