The shock and solidarity with the police today took over Dallas (USA) after the shooting Thursday that killed five agents in the historic center of the Texan city, where it continues the investigation of the slaughter.
The killing, which also caused nine injuries (seven policemen and two civilians), shattered the peace in which ran a demonstration of hundreds of people who denounced the recent violence forces the order against black citizens in the country.
The attack was the work supposedly a sniper who shot the agents, identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, black, a veteran of the Afghanistan war and died in a clash with police.
According to the negotiators who tried to mediate with the sniper, Johnson expressed dissatisfaction with the deaths this week of two black hands of the security forces, captured by cell phones, in Louisiana and Minnesota.
The shooter intended, in fact, “killing white people, especially white agents,” the head of the Dallas Police David Brown.
The worst attack on law enforcement in the US since the attacks of 11 September 2001 has left, in the words of US President Barack Obama, “the entire city of Dallas afflicted “.
The grief was palpable today in the streets of the city, where the flags, both American and Tejano, flying at half mast in many buildings in mourning for the tragedy.
In the area surrounding the college of El Centro, where the sniper made much of the shooting, many streets were today cut with barricades and police vehicles with lights siren red and flashing blue.
“The streets remain blocked. We do not know for how long. Maybe until Wednesday,” he told Efe an agent at a roadblock on the street Commerce, with several skyscrapers in the background, because the investigation into the attack is still underway.
That street is just off the tourist Dealey Plaza, witnessed another shooting that changed the course of American history: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
the sound of water gushing into the pool of the square contrasted with the silence in a now largely deserted area, interrupted by the horn tram or engine of any car accelerated .
Some passersby not give credit to the event on Thursday caused chaos in Dallas and greeted reverently policemen guarding the center of the city, raising the palm from forehead military style.
“It’s crazy. No words. We had to raise our hands to those men,” he told Efe Gbolahan Lashmand, an American of Nigerian origin.
Despite the blow that have suffered enforcement in Dallas, agents have not been demoralized ( “We’re fine. With good spirits,” confessed one Efe) and today received the affection of many pedestrians who approached them on the street with solidarity spirit.
“I woke up this morning sunk. But there have been many people who approached me. It was very comforting,” he told Efe another policeman who, in twenty-three years of service, not He is seen in the city “nothing” as the shooting that took the life of his colleagues.
Who not forget the whistle of bullets flying over night Dallas on Thursday is Mexican waiter Joel Hernandez, who lives in the Texas city for twenty years and works in a bar “two blocks” the place of slaughter.
“It was a normal night and then began to hear shooting,” he told Efe Hernandez behind the counter, where crestfallen guests tasted some juicy steaks topped with beer Texas .
During the slaughter, the Mexican waiter did not hesitate to offer “safe shelter for people” fleeing the shots in the restaurant, which “was filled with frightened people and sad protesters what was happening. ”
With “all sadness,” the establishment opened its doors today to cater to a few customers who have come to “shame” and “concerned about the agents” with whom Hernandez empathized during the day serving them “food and drink no cost”.
“Today people did not want to leave. People are worried. He wants to show his respect. Therefore there are no people on the street,” added the Mexican, shocked but convinced waiter Dallas that “we must move on.”
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