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Micah Johnson planned larger attack, wrote message in blood
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News sources say Micah Johnson, who murdered 5 police officers in
Dallas this week, had been building an arsenal over the last two years,
and police say he may have been planning an attack for a while; CBS's
Kenneth Craig reports.
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Micah Johnson planned larger attack long before Dallas police shootings; scrawled message in blood during standoff
Dallas Gunman Had 'Arsenal' At Home, May Have Been Planning Attack For A While
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Police Chief David Brown said the bomb-making materials and rambling journals stashed in the home of cold-hearted killer Micah Xavier Johnson show he planned a bigger, bloodier attack than the one he unleashed at a protest Thursday night.
“Our search of the suspect's home in Mesquite leads us to believe, based on evidence of bomb-making materials and a journal, that this suspect had been practicing explosive detonations and that the materials were such that it was large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area,” Brown said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Micah Xavier Johnson.
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“We believe that the deaths in Minnesota and the deaths in Louisiana just sparked his delusion to fast-track his plans, and he saw the protest in Dallas as an opportunity to begin wreaking havoc on our officers.”
FBI agents on the scene of the shooting.
(Gerald Herbert/AP)Johnson opened fire on officers before hiding in the second floor of a parking garage, sparking an hours-long standoff in which he exchanged gunfire with officers and claimed he had planted bombs around downtown Dallas. Police eventually killed him by sending in a bomb-toting robot.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown on CNN Sunday.
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During the standoff, Johnson taunted officers by singing, laughing and asking how many cops he had shot, Brown said. He also insisted that he would only speak with a black negotiator.
“For a long time during the negotiation, because of the negotiator's expertise, the suspect wouldn't believe he was black until they talked some more,” said Brown, who is himself African-American.
“But during that talk it didn't matter whether he was black because he was shooting at us. So asking for a black negotiator didn't make sense to us.”
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