Dallas police shooting

Sadly it is not unusual for people when are denied justice will seek justice themselves

Police offices shot for doing their job is no more tragic than people being shot because their skin is black.

Agreed both are tragedies and deserve repercussions but these police officers were there protecting the protesters.

What were they protecting the protestors from?

Oh Anniebach Rallies, huge groups of protesters - police are always there to make sure peaceful protests stay that way and violence doesn't break out and innocent/vulnerable protesters get hurt.

The events that led to this are too terrible and I'm glad it was all over the news yesterday but so awful that even more people (black/white/police/non-police/whoever) had to lose their lives now.

petitlois, if the police applied the law to themselves they would have no need to protect protestors who are protesting against police being free to murder

It's debatable that they were shot because they were black.We don't know if they were guilty of anything.Even in the US,police don't go around shooting people just because they're black.Not solely because they're black.

I watched that clip , where the 2 police officers held the man down, 1 pulled out his gun and just shot him, unbelievable.

Anniebach, the police are the law.

No Gonosuch, the police are paid to uphold the law

Such a tragedian, not only the officers killed but the deaths leading up to this. How America can halt this tit for tat killing is difficult to imagine. This race hatred is so ingrained in some Americans. I worked in Georgia for a while, horrid atmosphere regarding black v white.

I agree with Marmark 1 we don't know the details fully yet, I do know from personal experience there is a lot of overt racism in parts of USA. The media contribute to the hysteria in no small way.

Tragedy

Anniebach, the police are the law.

No the police are not the law, they are employed to uphold the law

Is that ironic gononsuch?
Apologies if I am a bit slow today, I found listening to the conversation yesterday between the woman passenger and the police too chilling .

gogogran innocent people killed as a result of their jobs applies equally to innocent people killed as a result of someone NOT doing the job they have a duty to do properly

Two wrongs make only one thing, two wrongs.

We don't know the full details of the killing of the two black en but how can shooting policemen in a different part of the country make it right? Of course there must be a full investigation into the shootings in the cities where they took place. The policemen in Dallas had nothing to do with the original shootings

Shooting someone simply because of the colour of their skin is obviously wrong, but so is shooting someone simply because they are wearing a police uniform.

annieb is correct in her interpretation, and you are wrong gononsuch police officers are paid by us to uphold the law.....notto take the law into their own hands by doing anything they like. Holding a suspect down on the floor and then shooting him(5 times!) comes into the realms of doing what they like.Which is why police officers were the targets in Dallas.

Shocking.

This gun-happy nation, stirred up to racial hatred and fear by the likes of Trump....as if it wasn't bad enough before.

Police officers who act in this way ( in whatever country) make things hard for their fellow officers who behave in a legal and decent way.

As sunseeker says, not that it makes it right, it certainly doesn't, but it explains the bad feeling by black people against the police.

I've watched that clip again, now tell me what the police are suppose to do.

Well said Rosesarered and Anya.

For the second time in a week ab I agree with you!! The Police are not the law. Without a doubt they are employed to uphold the law, and I would say that holding somebody on the ground and shooting them through the head killing them is, putting it mildly, breaking the law. Of course whats happened since is quite shocking, but............