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Assailant Attacks Dallas Police Headquarters With Automatic Guns, Pipe Bombs
Over the past several years, the US government has been confounded with not only explaining, but properly responding to one of the clear and obvious consequences of the Fed's disastrous policy of the past 7 years, namely record wealth inequality and a tearing social fabric (recall Paul Tudor Jones prediction that it may all once again end in "war or revolution") leading to rising social instability and a surge in public outbreaks of violence, frequently lethal. One need only note the flash riots in Baltimore and Ferguson to comprehend how fragile the US social fabric has become.
But while the government is still clueless how to explain this surge in social violence, something Zero Hedge readers have known for a long time is imminent (recall "despite what should be a steadily improving economy and improving social and economic conditions, what readers founds most fascinating, and troubling, was the increasing preponderance of social disobedience, of covert, proxy or outright wars, and of civil unrest: all phenomena that accompany a world sliding deeper into distress, not as most central banks and their puppet media would have us believe, a global recovery."), where its response has been even more deplorable is how to respond to this increase in civil disobedience: by weaponizing the US police force to an extent reminiscent of pre-civil war state leading to a police force which feels enabled and duly required to intervene well beyond the required in quelling and pre-empting imminent violence, leading to even more bloodshed much of it caught on phonecam and promptly uploaded on YouTube.
The result: in a game of rapidly escalating violence, public antagonism against the police is met with increasingly more acute brutality, which in turn forces even more social unrest and violence and so on in a positive feedback loop.
An example was shown yesterday when we reported that the murder rate in Baltimore skyrocketed as a result of the local Police responding to the infamous Baltimore riots by essentially shutting down.
Another example happened hours ago when overnight as many as four gunmen fired automatic weapons against the Dallas Police headquarters, Reuters reports, and that at least at least two pipe bombs were found outside the police headquarters after the initial shooting.
Initially, witness said there might have been 4 suspects. @DPDChief says we believe that one suspect shot from various locations.
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
At least one attacker opened fire on Dallas' police headquarters early Saturday, riddling windows and police cars with bullets before fleeing in a van to a suburban restaurant parking lot, where officers surrounded the vehicle in a standoff that has lasted for hours, CNN reports.
Subsequently Reuters reported that the assailant was believed to have acted alone, motivated by personal grievances, and he had no known connection to any terrorist groups.
Reuters adds that Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters that a motive for the attack was not yet known, but he also said there had been threats and attacks on police elsewhere in the country in the past few months.
One of the devices, a pipe bomb, exploded when a police robot attempted to move it. Another, which was under a police vehicle, was detonated by a bomb squad, according to the police department.
Brown said witnesses reported that up to four suspects were involved in the incident, which began around 12:30 a.m.
The incident started when police responded to reports of automatic gunfire from what was described as an armoured van outside police headquarters.
The van then rammed a squad car and gunfire erupted. The van drove off as police returned fire and officers gave chase, Brown said. Witnesses told police that one suspect may have failed to enter the van before it sped off, according to Brown.
The van stopped in a fast food restaurant parking lot in the city of Hutchins, some 10 miles (16 km) south of Dallas, where there was another exchange of gunfire. Police said they surrounded the van and managed to disable it with a high-powered rifle.
Brown said police negotiators had spoken with someone inside the van, who identified himself as James Boulware, shown in the mugshot below as per CBS DFW.
Suspect Mug Shot from Dallas County Sheriff’s Office that matches name given to police – James Boulware
The police chief said they had not yet been able to confirm the identity of the man, but said that police had responded previously to three incidents of domestic violence involving a man with that name.
Brown told reporters at the early morning news conference that the suspect had said that police had taken his child and had accused him of being a terrorist. The police chief said that the man then threatened to "blow us up."
Several bags were found scattered around police headquarters, two of which had explosives inside, police said. Another suspicious package was found in a dumpster near a different police station in the city, according to police.
Nearby residents were evacuated, Brown said.
Various video of the shoot out were found on social media:
NEW VIDEO: Armored van with gun ports opens fire on #Dallas police
— Conflict News (@rConflictNews) June 13, 2015
This footage of the Dallas shootout scared the hell out of me:
— BrownBlaze (@brownblaze) June 13, 2015
Dallas shooting???? pic.twitter.com/UUq3AWsjZE
— janin ruiz (@janinruiz1) June 13, 2015
Perhaps even more interesting is that the Dallas Police Department reported all updates as it got them on Twitter:
Shots were fired @DallasPD headquarters this morning, 911 received first call 12:27 am
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
Suspects parked in front of HQ. Patrol elements arrived; suspects rammed a DPD squad car & began shooting @ officers, striking squad cars.
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
This is the first time DPD HQ has been under attack.
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
#breaking As the Explosive Ordinance Robot attempted to move one of the bags @DallasPD HQ, the bag exploded on its own #DallasPDShooting
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
Device found under police vehicle at HQ has detonated - no injuries #DallasPDShooting
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
Here are some pictures of the damage at HQ. pic.twitter.com/ic18axSTPO
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
Picture of squad car that was shot at. No officers were injured. pic.twitter.com/vfT2nCiJzP
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
This is where the Explosive Ordinance Robot attempted to move one of the bags. #DallasPDShooting pic.twitter.com/mgbgytBhWv
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
As CNN reports, after the police caught up with the suspect in Huchins, a standoff began, and a SWAT team was negotiating with a suspect in the vehicle who gave the name James Boulware. Police said that they cannot independently confirm that it is the suspect's real identity.
Police found a previous record of domestic violence by a man under that name. The suspect told police that he was angry because they took away his child and labeled him a terrorist.
He threatened to blow them up and broke off negotiations, Brown said.
At one point, police used a .50-caliber rifle to "disable" the vehicle, police said.
Investigators are looking into whether a van sold in Newnan, Georgia, on eBay last week may be the van used in the Dallas attack, a source familiar with the investigation said. They are investigating, among other things, who may have purchased the vehicle.
As the story develops, moments ago the Dallas Police Department announced that the standoff has likely ended after
0507 PD Sniper shot @ suspect through front windshield of van. Suspect may be hit.
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) June 13, 2015
#UPDATE: Suspect in Dallas police standoff shot, presumed dead; no known links to terrorism http://t.co/kbZgMX59ej
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) June 13, 2015
The good news is that according to DPD no police officers were wounded. However, that armed assailants are now eager to bring the fight literally to the doorstep of regional police headquarters is certainly not a welcome development for a nation that over the past year has seen an unprecedented surge in violence on both sides of the legal divide and is sure to escalate the tensions even futher, leading to even more social instability and violence.
Chopper 11 live feed from CBS FDW.com
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Just remember, everything and I mean everything is monitored, especiallly if the nsa fbi cia secret service...etc. feel there are any radical ideas about. They find out anything they want We are only free in our minds. If you don`t care, good for you. I have no trust in any of it.
For simplicity leave it implicitly find freedom in your own tranquility, whatever form that takes.
<smile>. I gave up on revolution when I was in my 20's, because nobody was willing to join me. It has taken so long for the average American to WAKE UP that I'm QUITE too old for active participation now. Anyone who investigates me can easily discover that my primary activity these days is planting trees and feeding stray cats. Why should I build explosives when there are so many people who know SO much more about that than I do, and are young enough to run away?
Trees are very nice. They are quiet, and cool, and very green. I like trees, especially on warm evenings when the faeries come out and dance in the treetops with their blinking lights. I will leave it to the Goddess to flood New York and Washington with the consequences of their contempt for Mother Nature. Guns and bombs are like toy weapons when compared to Superstorm Sandy.
Coincidence-I think not;+) I just today received the peach tree from S. Carolina that I ordered 2 weeks ago.
I guess you never had a tree fall on you?
Yawn. Another psyop.
Death/suicide by cop.... this is pathetic. What kind of set up is this? Clearly a dupe for the militarization of the nation, the police state has arrived.
motorcycle club shoot outs, ISIS waana be's attacking cartoon contests, guys blasting police stations and lemonade stands getting raided and shut down....
and jade helm about to get under way.
conincidence?
maybe but my tinfoil hat says otherwise.
the question is never if you are paranoid, it's are you parinoid enough?
just ask Micheal Hastings...
Hitler and the SS were pros at this sort of propaganda . Clearly we can see where this is leading too.
I'm actually surprised we haven't seen more of this. Child Protective Services kidnaps and sells (oh, sorry -- fosters) poor children every day of the week for their parents' failures to live up to the child-rearing standards of people who have three times the income and twice the education. Once stolen, it becomes an uphill battle to ever get the kids back, as demands for their return not only require more income than the parent ever had, but have to be met while they are struggling to pay Child Support fines to the system for "caring" for their kids. And no matter how "civilized" humans become, they are still animals, and stealing and imprisoning their offspring hits them right in the lizard brain. It's a measure of the Machiavellian success of this system, that most of the aggrieved parents try to murder the other parent rather than the social service workers.
Fuckin' white homicidal maniacs need to go back to Europe. Oh wait. They couldn't hack it there, either.
(For all you redneck inbreds who always have something to say about race, when the perp isn't your color.)
Funny how everybody hates the police, until they kill a white dude.
Racist bastard.
To me, the biggest red flag about this story is how quickly the cops came out and said it was only one attacker. In a real situation they would never jump to that conclusion so quickly...especially after witnesses said they saw four.
Then all the unexploded bombs, and all the bullets hitting empty cop cars.
Something is fishy here.
I agree completely. Very, very funny that they are so insistent that it was one attacker; one crazy dude. Nothing organized; nope. Hmmm.
it was just one guy, and he was mentally ill....as much as I would love to see the american majority rising up against the police state, it just aint happening...and no, texas is not seceding, although that would be great, too.
You know that for sure already? Do you have some sort of inside info? Please share.
Does anyone know where Patty Hearst was,early Saturday morning?
Does it happened after Texas pull the 1 billion gold from NY fed ?
This sort of thing is going to be made more common by the mass killing of the nine bikers by police; funny how we have not gotten any ballistic evidence. Do we even know the names of the victims???? I wonder if the cops in Texas and elswhere are starting to undertand what an extraordinarily poor move that was. How many cops are in this country? How many bikers and their friends and family members? It's not that I think that bikers are going to start killing cops; not at all. There are three types of bikers; the actually violent ones (a tiny minority), the working class ones like the poor dopes rounded up in the mass arrest, and the well-off ones (some of whom were also rounded up in the mass arrest). This huge demographic now ALL sees the cops as being ready to kill them like cattle. Most of those guys were to some degree on the cops' side before; not any longer I imagine. They are mostly the sort of guys who do "rides" that benefit some local kid's leukemia treatment. They are also highly competent in all sorts of practical ways. Now they feel as if they are a target of state-sponsored violence. How nice is that going to make the open road for cops now? A whole huge group is now not going to come to their aid or report things that they see (like if they see this guy prepping), I would expect.
If the authorities in Texas had any brains, they would immediately apologize for the biker shootings, provide all the info about the incident available, fire/jail the cops involved, set up a shrine to the victims, and try to get the populace back on their side. It would work. But they won't because they are idiots.
Interesting perspective....
Were you across the street watching the shootout in real time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keo_U25cQRA
CNN anchor says gunman was courageous and brave to shoot at police headquarters
Too bad he didn't go after the Satanic Tribe!
Thank goodness Jade Helm is happening right now.
Police have really needed to justify owning 50 BMG rifles and armored vehicles so its nice they got some "justification" in one incident...and no officers injured. Very convenient.
When they outlaw the .50, I'm introducing the wildcat .499 Holemaker.
Serves the fuckers right for shutting down that lemonade stand.
Yeah, let's kill people over a closed lemonade stand.
That will definetely make this a better country.
jackwad
Not people, willing enforcers, and representatives of a corrupt ring of extortioners.
Not nearly as deadly as the police snipers who murdered the bikers at Twin Peaks.
Old classmates and colleagues asked me to come with their firm to TX, as they relocate to Houston.
"Cali is toast, Lin, GTFO of here and come with us - get where the action is!"
Yeah, action alright. Jade Helm, biker massacres, criminalizing a child's enterprise, and now this: an uber-OBVIOUS psyop and undeniable false flag. Ummm... no thanks.
I think I'll just stay here in Cali as the water runs out, watch as it turns into dried-up old dog poop, and blows away.
Safer.
I fully support your wise decision.
Any chance you can convince your fellow countrymen in Austin to follow suite?
Negotiated for hours in a restaurant parkinglot? Really? A ldy runs a checkpoint near the capital by mistake and gets shot-up 100 times no questions asked. With her kid insithe car.
For those that say you can't stand against the government...........look what one crazy bastard was able to do using nothing but the element of surprise. The people are far from helpless. Not saying I agree with all the shit surrounding this story that's beside the point. Also, that's what they get for shutting those blackmarket lemonade stands down lol. I think the elderly in the US are getting ready to check out at a really good time.
Sounds like you belive the charade. I got a bridge to sell you, it is really large, interested ?
Reliable sources say...
Sure seems odd he didn't kill anyone. NOW the real guy to fear is Lt. Brachle. Look HIM up.
Automatic weapons? Is this Zero Hedge or fucking Bloomberg?
Yeah, I had basically the same question.
Also, listening to the first couple of videos, I wondered: do Americans speak English anymore, "yo"? Sounds mo' like Gangstlish.
I guess the criminals in blue cannot take a dose of their own medicine.
(Tiniest violin playing)
Bravo, thats a real American.
Congratulations to the upright man who dared to take on the Evil American establishment.
Americans, awake arise & move & demolish the satanical setup called United States the epicenter of all immorality