2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
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2016-shooting-of-dallas-police-officers-175-7821645
title:
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
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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 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, wh
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Mass shooting in Dallas, Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers
date created:
2016-07-08T02:49:54Z
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2024-09-03T04:04:10Z
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