Snipers kill four police officers in Dallas in retaliation of killing of two blacks

Four officers of the Dallas Police died and seven others suffered injuries after at least two snipers opened fire during protests downtown over two recent fatal police shootings. It seems it was an ambush style attack from a higher elevation and is believed to be a retaliatory attack - white policemen had shot dead two blacks, one of them was pinned down on the ground and then shot.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 8 July 2016.

The gunfire broke out around 8:45 pm and live TV video showed protesters marching along a street in downtown when the shots erupted and the crowd scattered, seeking cover. The Dallas police chief has said that it two snipers shot 10 police officers during protests.
Hundreds of people had gathered in Union Square Park in Manhattan and took to the streets to protest the recent police-related shootings of two black men. They chanted slogans and the police scrambled to keep up with the crowd as the group left the park and marched up Fifth Avenue.
One of the shootings was in Minnesota where an officer fatally shot a man while he was in a car with a woman and a child in a St Paul suburb. The other was a day earlier - the victim was shot in Louisiana after being pinned to the pavement by two white officers. Both of these were captured on cellphone video.


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