Four gunmen shot 12 police officers – killing at least five – in a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Dallas Thursday night described by President Obama as a ‘vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement’. One of the police officers killed in the attack has been identified as 43-year-old Dart Officer Brent Thompson. A second slain officer was named by his family as young father Patrick Zamarripa. The shooters opened fire from ‘elevated positions’, picking off officers ‘ambush style’ as they manned a protest over the deaths of two black men – Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana this week, police chief David Brown said. ‘Some officers were shot in the back,’ he added.
Four snipers shoot 12 police officers in Dallas
