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4:30 PM ET, July 8, 2016

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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Dallas gunman killed by bomb robot, ‘wanted to kill officers,’ officials say  —  A Dallas police officer covers his face as he stands with others outside the emergency room at Baylor University Medical Center on July 8.  (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)  —  Police used a “bomb robot” …
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John Woodrow Cox / Washington Post:
Officer Patrick Zamarripa survived tours in Iraq before being killed in Dallas  —  It had been 12 hours since he'd lost his son to one of the country's worst mass police shootings, and he still couldn't understand why.  —  Dallas police officer Patrick Zamarripa, 32, had survived three tours in Iraq …
Richard Wheatstone / Mirror.co.uk:
Dallas police shooting: ‘Black Power group’ claims responsibility for police killings and warns of more assassinations to come  —  “More Will Be Assassinated In The Coming Days!  Do You Like The Work Of Our Assassins?  Get Your Own Sniper” read a post on the Black Power Political Organisation Facebook account
Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT  —  Last night's horrific execution-style shootings of 12 Dallas law enforcement officers - five of whom were killed and seven wounded - is an attack on our country.  It is a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe.  —  We must restore law and order.
Washington Post:
‘Like a little war’: Snipers shoot 11 police officers during Dallas protest march, killing five  —  At least five Dallas law enforcement officers were killed and seven wounded Thursday evening as a protest over recent police shootings was interrupted by chaos.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Dallas Shooting and the Advent of Killer Police Robots  —  In the mourning over the murders of five police officers in Dallas, and relief that the standoff had ended, one unusual detail stuck out: the manner in which police killed one suspect after negotiations failed.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Delivers Statement on Dallas Shooting  —  Good morning, and thank you all for being here.  —  Last night, at least five police officers were shot and killed, and several more were injured - along with two civilians - as they sought to protect a peaceful protest in Dallas, Texas.
Claire Z. Cardona / Dallas Morning News:
11 officers shot, 4 dead, 1 person in custody after shots fired during downtown Dallas rally  —  This is a developing story and will update throughout the evening.  —  What we know so far  —  * Person of interest turned himself in to Dallas police, another person involved in a shootout with officers was taken into custody
CNN:
Dallas sniper attack: 5 officers shot dead during protests against police  —  (CNN)Shooters killed five officers during protests against police in downtown Dallas, marking the deadliest single attack on U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001.  —  The gunfire started Thursday night …
Madlin Mekelburg / The Texas Tribune:
Dan Patrick Blames Black Lives Matter Movement for Dallas Shooting … *Correction appended.  —  Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.  —  Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick joined a handful of other Texas Republican officials Friday in blaming former Black Lives Matter protests …
Associated Press:
Latest: Dallas chief calls shooting of police ‘well-planned’  —  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of police officers in Dallas (all times local):  —  Dallas Police Chief David Brown says a shooting attack that left five police officers dead was “well planned.”
Sam Thielman / Guardian:
Use of police robot to kill Dallas shooting suspect believed to be first in US history
Discussion: National Review and Power Line
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
The Uncomfortable Reason Why it Came to This in Dallas Yesterday
Discussion: National Review
New York Times:
Dallas Shooting Suspect, Micah Johnson, ‘Upset at White People’
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
New York Post ‘civil war’ cover prompts pushback
Matthew Hennessey / City Journal:   Massacre in Dallas  —  Cops are targeted on the streets of an American city.
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Military experts: Dallas police attacker appeared ‘tactically professional’ and ‘focused’
Joe Sterling / CNN:
Dallas shooting victims: Who are the slain officers?
Jeffburkett / CBS Dallas:
Police: Dallas Shooting Suspect Micah Johnson “Wanted To Kill White People”
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Return of Clinton Derangement Syndrome  —  Her email scandal has predictably transformed from a legal inquiry into a partisan witch hunt.  —  If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results, then Republicans lost their minds chasing the Clintons down rabbit holes years ago.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: State Department reopens Clinton emails probe
Nick Gass / Politico:
Cruz blasts ‘political’ FBI over Clinton probe
Discussion: Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
Micah Johnson, Dallas Cop-Killer, Was Black Militant  —  The sniper who murdered five officers during a Black Lives Matter protest was a fan of anti-police groups.  —  Micah Johnson, 25, of Mesquite, Texas was identified by police as the sniper who shot 12 people during a Black Lives Matter protest …
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:   Black Lives Matter group condemns Dallas attack
Danielle Scruggs / FOX2now.com:
Police officer shot during traffic stop in Ballwin; suspect apprehended  —  BALLWIN, MO (KTVI)- Authorities are investigating after a police officer was shot during a traffic stop Friday morning in west St. Louis County.  It happened shortly around 11 a.m. near the 300 block of New Ballwin Road, near Old Ballwin Road.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   POLICE OFFICER SHOT in St. Louis County in CRITICAL CONDITION - Shot During Traffic Stop
Associated Press:
Georgia: Police Officer Shot Multiple Times
Discussion: Breitbart and Allen B. West
New York Daily News:
Trump barred from speaking to NYPD officers; Bratton says Dallas tragedy not a photo op  —  The Donald got nixed.  —  On Friday morning Donald Trump begged the city's top cop to let him speak to a 3 p.m. roll call at the NYPD Midtown North Precinct in the wake of the murders …
Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Trump slashes TV appearances as advisers clash over controlling his message  —  Donald Trump, in a sharp shift in strategy, is now refusing to appear on many television outlets, and top advisers who want to limit his exposure are no longer notifying him of every interview request.
Discussion: Mediaite and Politico
Catherine Shoard / Guardian:
Simon Pegg: I respectfully disagree with George Takei over gay Sulu  —  Actor and scriptwriter for Star Trek Beyond defends decision to reveal character is in a same-sex relationship, saying audience would infer that he was always gay - and that ‘we are all LGBT somewhere’
Discussion: Deadline
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Michael Eric Dyson / New York Times:
What White America Fails to See  —  IT is clear that you, white America, will never understand us.  We are a nation of nearly 40 million black souls inside a nation of more than 320 million people.  We don't all think the same, feel the same, love, learn, live or even die the same.
Mike Huckabee / Politico:
If You Can't Support Trump, You Don't Deserve a Microphone  —  “Breaking News!  If Ted Cruz, John Kasich and others don't endorse Donald Trump, they won't be invited to speak at the Republican National Convention!”  So the anchors all urgently reported earlier this week.
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
 
 
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