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The gunman who fatally shot five Dallas law enforcement officers<\/a> appeared delusional, taunted police during extensive negotiations by singing and “laughing at us” and wrote cryptic messages on a wall with his own blood before he was killed by a bomb-equipped robot, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The shooter, Micah Xavier Johnson, was “determined to hurt more officers” and would have done so if the pound of C-4 explosive carried by the robot had not ended the standoff, Brown said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” program.<\/p>\n

The additional details of Johnson’s behavior came after a tense night marked by the arrest of a prominent activist in the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in Louisiana and Minnesota that resulted in as many as 200 arrests, according to activists and police.<\/p>\n

Police in Baton Rouge late Saturday arrested DeRay McKesson<\/a>, one of the most visible faces of the Black Lives Matter movement, during a protest over the recent fatal shootings of black men, the latest round of highly publicized and video-recorded deaths at the hands of law enforcement.<\/p>\n

In the CNN interview Sunday, Brown said of Johnson, “I think that this killer had some delusions.” He cited “rambling” statements in a journal recovered from his home and said investigators found “some lettering in blood” on a wall in the building where he was killed after apparently being wounded on his way up a stairwell. “He wrote the letters ‘RB,'” Brown said. “We’re trying to figure out what those initials mean.”<\/p>\n

Brown said Johnson, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, apparently used his military training to ambush officers who were trying to stay ahead of a spontaneous, peaceful protest march. “The officers didn’t know where shots were coming from,” Brown said. “They were in a funnel. It ended up being a fatal funnel.”<\/p>\n

During negotiations that lasted about two hours, Johnson was “playing games” with a police negotiator after insisting that he would speak only with an African-American. “He was laughing at us. He was singing. He asked how many did he get. … He wanted to kill some more.”<\/p>\n

Brown said Johnson was in a position where officers would have had to expose themselves to “grave danger” to get a shot at him. Therefore, he said, he approved a hastily conceived plan to detonate a bomb near him and would “do it again if presented with the same circumstances.”<\/p>\n

(c) 2016, The Washington Post \u00b7 William Branigin<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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