Dallas Police killed Micah Johnson where he was hiding in a first of its kind preemptive counterattack against an alleged terrorist on U.S. soil
Dallas – Law enforcement just turned up the thermostat on a long, hot summer by summarily executing a suspected sniper holed up in a parking garage at a community college.
It’s a first-ever situation for a couple of reasons, the first of which is that it’s the first time an alleged terrorist has been killed by a remote, robotic – radio controlled drone – device, on U.S. soil.
But that’s not all.
The Texas constitutional doctrine of referring officer-involved killings of suspects to a Grand Jury is on the line as the result of what has been heralded by mainstream media as a robotic counterattack that ended the life of the suspected terrorist sniper with the use of a “bomb.”
That is not quite accurate, but it’s understandable in the wake of an attack about which anti-terrorist cops under the control of the Department of Homeland Security are extremely close-mouthed.
The “bomb” was actually a “water cannon” attached to a remotely controlled tractor that uses no explosives or flammable devices whatsoever to neutralize bombs or other incendiary devices.”
Said a knowledgeable law enforcement official who has rare knowledge of the device, “This thing will completely neutralize a pipe bomb or anything else that blows up with the force of the water fired from the cannon as a water ‘projectile,’ as it’s called.”
Such devices are used by Israeli Defense Forces as a matter of routine, according to U.S. Army Military Police sources who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak about the issue.
But in America, there is a federal constitutional separation of law enforcement and military due to the Posse Comitatus Act.
“The military is a sledgehammer. We in law enforcement are expected to operate with a scalpel. We’re more like a flyswatter.
“This thing is powerful. It will shoot right through metal, something like a car door, with ease.”
Requesting anonymity, the official said, “Every cop in America will hate me if I say this publicly, but the truth is, there’s no precedent for this…We in law enforcement have to do things right.”
Ordinarily, such a case would be automatically referred to a Grand Jury for an examination of probable cause to bind the cause over to a trial; but because of the peculiar circumstances this case, there is no one to refer to Grand Jury scrutiny.
“What person was actually in danger by the threat of the gunman?” the expert asked.
It’s a question that could leave police supervisors who must pass on affidavits of probable cause and prosecutors who must present cases to Grand Juries scratching their heads.
“Here you had a guy holed up in a school building. There were police negotiators working with him for the previous five hours. Now, if a SWAT team had walked in there – you see – if you raise a gun up to a SWAT team officer, then the officer is threatened with the loss of his life. But if you raise a gun up to a robot with a water cannon, then who, exactly, has been threatened?”
Other than pyrotechnic projectiles, tear gas or flash-bang grenades, law enforcement is prohibited from using explosive or fragmentation grenades throughout the nation.
Such devices are non-lethal in their explosive properties, “unless they just happened to set him on fire,” said the official. But as to anti-personnel explosive devices with a lethal capability, “There is no such thing authorized for use by law enforcement in the United States.”
Johnson was reportedly an adherent to the Black Lives Matter program and a devotee of the New Black Panther Party, founded in Dallas.
Pastor Jeff Hood, an organizer of the Black Lives Matter protest, repeated the words of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, “God damn white America,” over a loudspeaker as the fateful march began
Five of eleven Dallas Police officers shot in the triangulated-fire sniper attack lost their lives following a protest rally in which participants heard a white preacher named Jeff Hood, an organizer of the protest, quote the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of President Obama’s church on the south side of Chicago.
Pastor Hood repeated his words, “God damn white America,” over a loudspeaker from a position in the march route through downtown as the protest began. Later, as the march concluded, shots rang out from multiple elevated locations in surrounding buildings in proximity to a large parking lot and McDonald’s hamburger store at a rapid transit route interchange point.
The suspected gunman who lost his life to the water cannon, Micah Johnson of Mesquite, Texas, was a former Army construction specialist, a carpenter and masonry worker whom the Army recommended for a “less than honorable” discharge due to an alleged case of sexual harassment leveled by a female soldier while he was deployed to Afghanistan. The Army shipped him home from the war zone, his lawyer said, according to an Associated Press account.
Johnson was reportedly an adherent to the Black Lives Matter program and a devotee of the New Black Panther Party, founded in Dallas.