The assassination of five Dallas cops last July left Dallas, TX, and the whole nation in shock. NFL team Dallas Cowboys wanted to honor the fallen cops with an Arm-In-Arm decal on their helmets, but the league said the team must remove the decals once preseason starts.
NFL Rejects Cowboys Request for...
The Dallas Police Department lost five officers on July 7, but instead of people backing away from the job, the department still receives applications from people to join the force.
Officials received 467 applications days after the attack with more coming in each week.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has found that shooting deaths of law enforcement has risen to 78% in 2016 from 2015. The majority of those officers died in “ambush-style killings.”
The report runs from January to July 20 and compares the stats from the same time period last year, which...
My colleague Mary Chastain reported that Black Lives Matter activists in Wichita, KS, joined their local police department for the First Steps Cookout to bring together their community.
San Diego took a different, though similar approach. City officials, area clergy, and our police representatives came together by our famous Balboa Park founta...
As I mentioned earlier this week, I’ve been greatly encouraged that post-Dallas Shootings, there seems to be a collective denial of the usual gun control nonsense in favor of heartfelt conversations about race.
Communities nation-wide aren’t...
President George W. Bush spoke at the memorial service for the fallen Dallas officers killed in last week’s attack. His remarks were a welcome departure from the current narrative and a reminder that principled leadership can still be found in this country.
Speaking of American values and our common bond, President Bush...
I’ve been surprisingly encouraged post-Dallas shootings. Rather than surrender to the usual partisan bias, Americans from all walks of life are working together, praying together, and recognizing the country’s dire need for change. Real change.
This video captures once such instance.
When protesters and counter-protesters crossed paths in the streets of Dallas,...
Five Dallas cops lost their lives protecting citizens in Dallas during a Black Lives Matter protest. The victims included veterans, husbands, and fathers.
The killings were the deadliest attack on police since September 11, 2001. Their coworkers and family members remember them as “caring, dedicated and professional.”
The 5 #Dallas...
Given what we know about the Dallas sniper, it’s clear to most of us what his motive was in shooting and killing five officers. As Mary noted, not only did he tell the police negotiator that he wanted to kill “white people, especially white police officers,” but he was also inspired...
Officials have revealed that Micah Johnson, who shot five cops in Dallas, sexually harassed a female soldier in Afghanistan. Before dying, Johnson told the cops he wanted to kill white officers.
Johnson served as a private first class in the Army Reserve for six years. But while serving in Afgh...
In the wake of the horrifying and incomprehensible shootings in Dallas that left four police officers and one rapid transit officer dead and another seven people wounded, Heather MacDonald appeared on Rush’s radio show. She shared statistics and asserted that the entire Black Lives Matter movement is “based on a lie.”
MacDonald,...
The horrific Dallas massacre of peace officers has resulted in an amazing outpouring of support not only from celebrities and politicians but from ordinary people all across America who are reaching out to show their support for and appreciation of their local police departments.
In Dallas, crowds gathered to hug and say...
Following the horrific violence and murder of police officers in Dallas this week, conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh made a disturbingly plausible prediction on his show.
Rush suggested that Dallas might just be the beginning of something and that the next targets could be the Republican National Convention and the Democratic Convention...
Morning Joe did a very decent job today of covering the shooting of police officers in Dallas and the issue of police shootings of African-American. The remarks were generally even-handed. Even Al Sharpton was cautious and balanced in his comments. And so it was surprising that of all people, Chuck Todd...
Thursday night, a man shot twelve law enforcement officers, killing five. Two civilians were also shot. Three of the wounded officers and one of the deceased were Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) officers.
Mark Hughes was wrongly identified as a suspect, but turned himself in and was quickly released.
So far,...
