Downtown Dallas Protest Police Shooting Megathread

Post any info you find here. Brown: call 214-671-3494 if you have ANY INFORMATION about what happened tonight. Dallas cops shot dead during protest in Dallas. Looks like at least 3-4 are dead. Right in front of the Macdonalds with the big arches in downtown Dallas(Commerce and main). 9:02 Cops hiding behind cars. 9:05 Cops pouring into the area. 9:06 Cops aiming toward bank of america building. Helicoptors overhead. 9:08 Shooter has a rifle. 9:11 Confirmation of at least two officers shot. 9:12 Maybe just two officers shot. 9:14 No more shots since the initial blasts of gunfire. 9:16 Reporters being pushed back further. At least a few blocks away now. Shooter still active? 9:17 Shooter is in a parking garage. This is the reasons for everyone being pushed back so far. 9:21 Details are slow to come in now. No new information is coming out and the news is just talking about the protests. 9:21 - Swat team being sent in. 7 SWAT trained officers meeting in another location to sweep the garage. 9:23 Police in active discussion with shooter per scanner. 9:26 Police maybe fired back with their pistols. Maybe this is the reason for the number of gunshots. I am a gun idiot so I can offer nothing in the way of analysis. 9:33 "Shooter in high location. Officers taking and returning fire. " - scanner 9:33 El Centro Campus, Downtown Dallas. Cops currently taking fire. 9:33 - Suspect reloaded rifle. 9:37 - Time Posted - Police described suspect: Black male, camoflauge shirt, black shirts, armed with AR-15, driving a red Suburban, walked from the McDonald's parking lot. 9:42- female has been shot in front of the location 9:47 - One shot is DPD. Do no know the other or their condition. 9:48 - Almost all of downtown Dallas is cordoned off. 9:54 - Officer has a female suspect in custody that matches the description, he just asked where he needs to take her. Another officer says take her to HQ. - scanner 9:55 - Fox 4 reporting 3-6 officers shot. 10:00 - CNN reporting a text message from an anchor's friend's daughter in the Omni hotel saying there is active shooter inside with 6 officers down. 10:09 - Friend works at parkland, she said 6 officers shot 10:10 - Sources indicate 5-6 officers gravely injured. 10:10 - Police reporting suspect on 3rd floor of the Bank of America tower in body armor. 10:17 - VERY UNCONFIRMED / NOT TRUE? - picture removed due to reports of inaccuracy by commenters. Sorry I posted it.... 10:22 - 6 officers at Parkland and one has passed. 10:32 - One guy just gave himself over to the cops. Supposedly he was just standing in the crowd with some type of body armor on. Nobody knows if he had any asociatioon with the shooters. 10:35 - I am not reporting casualties for a bit until more is confirms. Every station is posting something different. Between 3 and 10 down. One dead. 10:43 - Reports converging towards accuracy. 3 officers now dead. 10:53 - both WFAA and Fox reporting no suspects in custody, meaning both are possibly still at large or active. If in Dallas stay indoors. 10:53 - 4 cops dead. 10:57 - 11th officer shot right now in gunfire exchange - Fox news. 11:03 - Suspect. http://m.imgur.com/ZIfkPCi?r (Earlier picture was correct assholes ;-)

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