He spoke again on Friday after the Dallas shootings to call the attack “vicious, calculated and despicable”. “The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers,” Brown said. A Pew poll last month found 84% of black Americans believe police treat blacks unfairly, compared with 50% of white respondents. “Dallas had a tragedy when President Kennedy was shot here in the 60s,” Texas attorney general Ken Paxton said this week. The five officer deaths in Dallas were the first of law enforcement personnel around such demonstrations.

Source: The Guardian July 09, 2016 18:15 UTC