Dallas police shooting

So sad that shooting someone is seen as a solution to anything. Once again guns are involved, the USA needs to sort out it's a gun happy nation. It might not have averted this situation, but then again if no one had easy access to guns it might have.

Very sad situation, black or police officer, they've all tragically lost their lives. There are too many guns in America.

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............

Well said Rosesarered and Anya.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Anniebach, the police are the law.

Tragedy

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.

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.

No Gonosuch, the police are paid to uphold the law

Anniebach, the police are the law.

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

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.

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

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.

What were they protecting the protestors from?

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