US race shootings: Dallas sniper ‘wanted to kill white officers’, acted alone, by AP.

The sniper who killed five police and transit officers in downtown Dallas during a peaceful protest yesterday has been named as Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old army veteran.

As police attempted to negotiate with him during an hours long stand-off, Johnson told them he launched the assault because he was upset about the police shootings of two black men earlier this week and wanted to exterminate whites, “especially white officers.” …

Authorities initially blamed multiple “snipers” for Thursday’s attack, and at one point said three suspects were in custody. But by Friday afternoon, all attention focused on Johnson, and state and federal officials said the entire attack appeared to be the work of a single gunman.