Discussion: Dallas Police Headquarters Comes Under Armed Attack, Explosion Reported

bankerpup · June 13, 2015, 1:21pm

Witnesses claim multiple shooters at Dallas PD. Possibly more than one in the armoured vehicle when it sped away.

darrtown · June 13, 2015, 1:21pm

Sounds like an anger management candidate to me.

antisachetdethe · June 13, 2015, 1:24pm

Or someone who could use Enzyte

josephebacon · June 13, 2015, 1:25pm

That’s because The Guardian IS a newspaper. Something that no longer exists in America.

ralph_vonholst · June 13, 2015, 1:25pm

Perhaps he took his “Assertiveness Training” course too much to heart.

josephebacon · June 13, 2015, 1:26pm

All he had to do was go to one of those Mega¢hur¢he$ in TexASS. He’d find lots of pals to help him!

mcnett · June 13, 2015, 1:28pm

Let’s see how this pans out. If the perpetrators are Muslim, this will be called a terrorist attack for which all Muslims everywhere will be held accountable. If the perpetrators are black, then the lack of fathers and domineering mothers, not to mention the natural criminality of blacks, will be blamed. However, if the perpetrators are white, this will be viewed as an aberrant incident with mitigating circumstances, and follow-up stories will talk about their happy childhoods, their quiet, tree-lined communities, and their hard-working parents.

antisachetdethe · June 13, 2015, 1:29pm

Dallas Police Officers Association has just Twittered that suspect is dead.

josephebacon · June 13, 2015, 1:29pm

But he can’t be a terrorist! He’s white!

henk · June 13, 2015, 1:29pm

Score one for the NRA. Next we’ll be hearing that only a good guy with a fully automatic weapon can stop a bad guy with a fully automatic weapon. Here in Minnesota we can now equip our guns with silencers. Nothing says freedom like a silenced fully automatic AR-15.

craigm · June 13, 2015, 1:31pm

There are so many buildings in the area that it could have seemed like multiple active shooters. I think initial reports about shooters from elevated positions have to be wrong.

martinheldt · June 13, 2015, 1:35pm

Any open carry events scheduled today?

ralph_vonholst · June 13, 2015, 1:35pm

Love this post by an anonymous commenter in the Guardian coverage:

As a white I can tell you, being white DOES have its privileges.

If Boulware were richer and smarter he’d realize that the best way to get back at the police, or any other civil servant, is to get elected as a Republican and then let a hedge fund raid the police’s pension fund.

henk · June 13, 2015, 1:38pm

Shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out used to refer to our enemies, but it looks like we’re adopting, or adapting it, for internal use as well.

henk · June 13, 2015, 1:39pm

I believe we’re discussing one.

srfromgr · June 13, 2015, 1:41pm

Never thought I’d wake up to “Texas Declares War On Itself”…but alas, here it is. Bound to happen…

Where’s Gov. Abbott? Has he called out the militia yet to protect the police?

darcy · June 13, 2015, 1:42pm

“Being Texas I’m surprised he doesn’t have rocket launchers.”

It’s hard to drive an armored vehicle and launch rockets at the same time. More training perhaps. For the next assault.

bankerpup · June 13, 2015, 1:43pm

As it happens, Gov. Abbott is heading to a gun range today to sign a couple of gun rights bills.
–concealed carry on college campuses
–open carry most other places

The irony is in full flow.

antisachetdethe · June 13, 2015, 1:43pm

Nah. This is an urban PD. Abbott will only call out the militia to protect the suburban and exurban PDs

jw1 · June 13, 2015, 1:43pm

Thanks for the informed report-- hope your friend is not too shook.

jw1