Were live from dallas with all the latest on the investigation. Nightly news begins right now. Tragedy in dallas. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from dallas. Good evening. Tonight police say the shots that turned the streets behind me into a killing zone, taking the lives of 15 Police Officers 5 Police Officers, wounding 7 others and 2 civil juans came from one man operating alone with a grudge against police and white people. Tonight the nation shares dallas anxiety and shock over how a peaceful protest of Police Shootings of black men turned into an ambush of Police Officers here in texas. As marchers ran in fear from the shots, police took cover and desperately tried to neutralize the attacker. Tonight weve learned the killer is a black army veteran of the war in afghanistan. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has details. Go, go, go ambush was wellplanned, wellthoughtout and evil, police say. Hundreds of protesters caught in the cro crossfire, while officer were targ
Police department. At the same token, not every Police Officer is a perfect person. Some are evil and bad. Most are good. And the vast majority are good. We have to be honest with each other. When you talk about black lives matter, the black young boy who was killed by another black young boy is just as dead as the black young boy killed by the Police Officer except what i just mentioned happens 50 times more than the other. And i think theres a target on Police Officers backs because of groups like black lives matter that make it seem like all police are against blacks. They are not. They are the ones saving black lives. Black lives matter. Its not saving any black lives. Its the Police Officers that are doing it. The way the governor of minnesota yesterday seemed to be saying black lives matter in his own way was something he said that a lot of people struck a lot of people as honest. I dont think had this motorist been white wed be talking about this. You have an assassinated driver
Gutwrenching, exhausting, crazy 72 hours in america. Its been hard to wrap your mind and your heart around everything thats happened. First we were confronted with a dhiling image of a man in baton rouge, louisiana, named alton sterling being killed by police. Alton sterling was a father of five. The next day in falcon heights, minnesota, a man named Philando Castile was shot dead by an officer during a traffic stop. His girlfriend, whose 4yearold daughter was in the back seat, broadcast the aftermath live on facebook. The backtoback killings of black men at the hands of Law Enforcement were so disturbing that president obama, who had just arrived in poland for a nato summit, made a lengthy statement to the press shortly after landing, urging us as a country to, quote, do better. Last night, thousands of black lives matter and other protesters gathered in Peaceful Demonstrations in cities across the country. And then during one of those peaceful protests in dallas, just 24 hours ago, a
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