We must stand in solidarity with Law Enforcement. There is too much violence, too much hate. And no more shooting. Thats all you need to know. More clashes with police as protests erupt overnight. Weve got to stay in the streets. This morning we have complete coverage. And good morning, everyone. Lets get right to the new developments in the massacre of those five Police Officers in dallas, an act of madness that has injected a whole new level of anger and fear into americas already fraught debate over race and Law Enforcement. Overnight large street demonstrations have been going on in cities across our country. The protest movement against Fatal Police Shootings of black people is not slowing down even after the events in dallas where five officers were murdered and the tension is evident. We want you to look at the social video from an overnight demonstration in baton rouge. You can see an officer pulling his gun on protesters. In some place, though, communities are really coming together. This indelible image out of dallas, a police car there blanketed in flowers. And this morning we are getting new video and new eyewitness accounts of the fear as well as the heroism during the shooting in dallas. We have Team Coverage this morning, and we do begin with abcs matt gutman right there on the ground in Downtown Dallas. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, paula. That fear and heroism you mentioned was intensified by the fact that that night officials here in the city were convinced they were under siege by an unknown number of gunmen. Now that they know it was a lone gunman, officials are focusing on how he did this and patching dallas back together. Oh, its a sniper from up here somewhere. Its a sniper . Reporter this morning as agents combed the streets for evidence, theyre learning pore about the gunman. There was confusion with everybody running around, but this was a mobile shooter. Reporter who police say began blasting away shortly after this peaceful demonstration in dallas on thursday. As the gunfire ricochets hundreds scatter. Some hide between cars. A woman runs pushing a baby carriage. As police lunged for cover and trying to find the shooter, they started to go down. Code three, officer down. Shots fired. Officer down. We got a guy with a long rifle. We dont know where the hell hes at. Reporter dallas pd shutting down the airspace over town thinking this was an ambush with multiple shooters. Somebody is really armed to the teeth. This is not one person. Reporter but it was one shooter, micah xavier johnson. Mr. Johnson had written manifestos on how to shoot and move. Reporter you see him in this video advancing with deadly efficiency on this officer firing, the officer gunned down. The toll, 14 shot, 12 of them officers, 5 of the officers died. Towards midnight s. W. A. T. Teams finally corner johnson on the second floor of el centro college. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. Reporter negotiations break down and police use an explosive mounted on a robot similar to this one to kill johnson for the first time in history. The crime scene enormous. Spanning 20 city blocks. The shooter was about 100 yards away. Still he was able to hit this squad car. You see bullet holes here and here and on the other side of the car and managed to shoot out the tires. With tensions here still high as we interviewed the chief of the dallas area Rapid Transit who lost one of his officers in the attack, a man approaches from behind making that shooting motion into the chiefs back. It was a pretty disturbing interaction and immediately afterwards i challenged the chief about how it made him feel. He said right now all officers regardless of right feel vulnerable and in that chaotic shootout hundreds of officers were involved but only 12 of them discharged their weapons. Paula. That was a jarring and disturbing moment right there, matt. Thank you. We do want to move now to the investigation focusing on the gunman, 25yearold micah johnson. He was a former Army Reservist and this morning the ap as well as the New York Times reporting johnson was accused of Sexual Assault by a female soldier when he served in afghanistan. He reportedly received an Honorable Discharge for reasons his military lawyer says he doesnt understand and abcs senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas joins us from washington with more on what were learning about the gunman. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, paula. The suspects motive disturbing. Racial hatred and simmering bitterness for police. Authorities say this is the deadly sniper, micah xavier johnson, a former military man who went hunting for police specifically white officers. One officer is down. There appears to have been one gunman with no known links to or inspiration from any International Terrorist organization. Reporter Law Enforcement sources tell abc news johnson was armed for a shooting spree with an Assault Rifle and two handguns. Its been a tale of cowardice by an assassin. Reporter johnson served in the army reserve from 2009 to 2015 doing a tour in afghanistan. According to police, his Facebook Page reveals some of that rage against police. He liked the page which said, kill everything blue that moves. Overnight police searched johnson homes in mesquite, texas, and they say they found bombmaking materials, ballistic vests, rifles and a personal journal on combat tactics. This was a wellplanned, well thought out, evil tragedy. Reporter neighbors in this quiet suburb of dallas were stunned that the killer was living among them. This guy lived around the corner from me and was willing to take peoples lives that he didnt even know. You know, its scary. Reporter micahs sister took to facebook writing the news will say what they think but those who knew him know this wasnt like him. While theres no sign of a wider plot, Police Continue digging into his background searching for anyone who might have supported him especially black supremacists. No evidence of that so far but police in dallas and around the nation remaining on alert, paula. Pierre, how pivotal is this time in our country right now . Reporter this is a defining moment. You have routine encounters between black men and police turning deadly like that tragic case in minnesota. At the same time this year the number of officers killed by guns in the line of duty is up 44 . Thats a complicated mix. Very complicated. Pierre, thank you. Dan. Complicating and combustible mix, Pierre Thomas, thank you. There is a real debate this morning about the apparently unprecedented decision by police in dallas to take the shooter out using a robot. So lets bring in abcs crime and terror analyst brad garrett. Brad is also a former fbi agent. Brad, good morning. Police in dallas said they made this decision because, quote, other options would have exposed our officers to great danger. So do you support the use of a robot in this case . Yes, and the reason why, dan, is that i dont think they could eliminate that he had explosives. Obviously he was lethal. He had already killed a number of officers, so what are your options . Send a s. W. A. T. Team in, maybe get one of them hurt or send a robot in knowing youre going to have to ultimately kill him anyway. But why not simply wait him out . At some point hes going to need to sleep or eat or Something Like that. Why not wait him out for a couple more hours . This is the argument that some are advancing this morning. Of course. They did wait him out for five hours and i think reached a point where this is not going to get any better. And so were going to have to end this because, you know, the issue is going to be hes apparently in a parking garage. Could he shoot somebody else, and the answer is probably yes. Some people this morning are worried about the precedent this decision may set about the militarization of our police departments, about the blurring of the line between policing and warfare and about the fact that the argument goes the further you remove officers from the use of lethal force, the easier it may become, so do you share any of those concerns . I only share that its used in situations like this. Clearly, dan, in any terrorist or extremist takeover situation where the person is not coming out and its clear that youre going to have to go in and get them, why not at least use a device where no one else is going to get hurt. But others worry about a slippery slope. Brad, we appreciate your analysis. Thank you very much. And we are remembering those five officers who lost their lives in dallas, and were learning more about the men who died in the line of duty. Lives cut short in a senseless act of violence leaving distraught families behind and abcs phillip mena with that part of the story. Phillip, good morning to you. Reporter dan, paula, good morning. This is just what rips your heart out seeing these flowers and balloons and these messages of love and gratitude to the Fallen Heroes of this city. Overnight a growing memorial outside Police Headquarters in dallas, a tribute to the heroes. Five officers killed in the line of duty, police say, at the hands of a sniper. This morning, were learning their names. 32yearold patrick zamarripa, a young husband and father to a 2yearold girl. He survived three tours in iraq. 40yearold michael krol, his mother saying he was living a dream of being a Police Officer and he knew the danger of the job but he never shied away from his duty. 55yearold michael smith, a 26year veteran of the force. Lorne ahrens, he served for 14 years and brent thompson, the first dallas transit cop to die in the line of duty. He was a newlywed married just two weeks ago. His wife also a d. A. R. T. Officer now a widow. Many of the survivors in blue being hailed as heroes. Video from that horrific night showing countless officers running toward the gunfire keeping protesters out of harms way. Civilians also displaying heroics like shetamia taylor, the mother shot while shielding her son both surviving the gunfire. Taylors sister describing the hail of bull les police braved to get her. She said it was about five minutes before cops even got to her and pulled her from the area where she was because the shots were coming so fast. Reporter many of the victims rushed to Baylor University medical center. You see the Police Officers in the er, theyre supporting each other, hugging each other, the tears, some family members, you realize what a tragedy it is. I tried to really maintain my emotions, but in my car is when i really it hit me. My husband is a Police Officer in dallas. Reporter since yesterday loved ones and strangers have been coming down here to Police Headquarters to silently reflect and pay their respects to those fallen officers. Paula. All right, phillip, thank you. And one of the officers killed in the line of duty was officer patrick zamarripa, a fiveyear police veteran. Right now we are joined by his mother valerie as well as his godson, amando martinez. First of all, i just cant express our condolences enough. Were so sorry about this tragedy. Valerie, can you tell us how your family is holding up right now . Well, as well as can be so far. Its pretty tough and really hard to grasp. I want to ask you about the type of man that patrick was. I know that he leaves behind a 2yearold daughter named lyncoln. What will you tell her about her father, and how do you ensure that his legacy lives on . I will definitely make sure that she knows what a great, humble person and special, very special man that he was. Amando, i want to ask you, youre 19, he was your godfather and you said that he was the policeman of the family. How so . He was always the my big brother essentially. He would always protect me from them teasing me and them pushing me around, and hed always have the moral compass to always keep us on the right path. And, valerie, i want to go back to patrick, he served three tours in iraq, and now he was serving in dallas. What did this country, what did his local Community Mean to him . He loved his community, and even though he lived here in ft. Worth, he worked in dallas, but he stayed involved and just always making sure that everybody was okay and doing what he needed to do to make everybody happy. Did you ever worry about your sons safety . Oh, yes, every day that he went to work when i knew that he was working, i prayed, and if we heard of something going on, we were all on standby, just alert. We really want to thank you for taking the time. I know this is a really tough time for your family, valerie. And we want to thank you both for joining us and our condolences for your extraordinary loss. Thank you very much. Thank you. You heard it there. An extraordinary family man and now that family has the burden of raising that child that he leaves behind, as well as a stepson, but ensuring that that little girl lyncoln knows who her father was and that he lost his life in the line of duty. Really thinking about that little girl this morning. As we said at the top of the show, despite the attack on the officers in dallas, the protest movement against Police Killings of black people is at full force. Thousands of demonstrators hitting the streets overnight all over america. This as we learn more about those two highprofile Police Shootings in recent days, one in louisiana, the other in minnesota. Abcs gio benitez is in minneapolis with more this morning. Gio, good morning to you. Reporter dan, good morning to you. Demonstrators are camping out here at the minnesotas governors mansion. They like millions of others want their voices heard. All black lives matter. Reporter overnight massive protests across the nation from atlanta to phoenix where protesters were met with pepper spray to baton rouge. Are yall going to shoot me . Are yall going to shoot me . Reporter to minnesota where the reverend Jesse Jackson made an appearance. As for this execution here a few days ago, our brother will live as long as we remember him. Reporter youre still here protesting. Why . Were serious. We need a change before even more things start to happen, worse things. Reporter they are protesting the shooting deaths of alton sterling and Philando Castile, two highprofile Police Shootings igniting a nationwide firestorm. One showing a closeup killing in front of a Louisiana Convenience store. The other broadcast live on facebook from minnesota. I told him to get his hand up. You told him to get his i. D. , sir. His drivers license. Reporter Philando Castiles girlfriend, diamond reynolds, who was in the car during the traffic stop along with her young daughter its okay, im right here with you. Reporter capturing the aftermath. Thats officer Jeronimo Yanez pointing his gun into the car just moments after shooting castile. This morning, she and the family of alton sterling in baton rouge are uniting in their messages to the families of those officers killed in dallas. It hurts me whats going on in dallas because nobody should have to be tooken away from their family. Reporter and here in minnesota the county attorney is now deciding whether to use a grand jury to determine if those officers should face any charges. Dan and paula. Unfortunately united in our grief this country is. Gio, thank you. And coming up were going to hear how the president ial candidates are reacting to these events. There is other news including Severe Weather so lets get it over to rob. Hi, rob. Hi, dan. We start you off in michigan, winds over 65 miles an hour did some damage knocking out power and taking down a lot of trees, some lancing in through detroit and at the height of that over also across parts of the North Carolina 85 miles an hour wind close to the mountains into nashville and charlotte tree damage also thousands of people without power in the height of the storm and there is lightening strike at the airport. 375 storm reports right along i40 and there is michigan, and couple in Central New Jersey right where there is strong storms yesterday afternoon. Today we will see threat for severe wets long delaware and new jersey and parts of the eastern pennsylvania, back door front keeping things cool will from boston to new york knocking down that threat during the day time hours and across Northern Plains this is an area not only today but tomorrow we will see damaging wind potentially isolated tornado. On the to the west it is heating up wind advisory, red flag warning, look at these numbers, in Salt Lake City 100 t 96 in denver and strong trough across Pacific North withes will crank out these wind with the strong High Pressure across four corners reek on. Seventy in portland, oregon. We will get summer around july. This year it is more like seattle july 10th or 15th and, here is your local forecast. Well, that is 70 would be nice. Good morning im meteorologist chris soars with this accu weather update. Double scan live zoomed in north and west of philadelphia, berks county, fleet wood, seeing a couple showers, miss continuing taking place. We will get you on you the side, gray skies, lower level clouds and patchy fog a cross south jersey, and little bit of drizzle, temperatures right now in the lower 70s. Seventythree in philadelphia. Millville 74. Trenton 69. Forecast for today calls for afternoon then are storms, some strong, 87 degrees. To cra the climate forecast coming up in about ten mi