© Ron Jenkins / AFPDallas police officers escort a woman near the scene where eleven Dallas police officers were shot and five have now died on July 7, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.
This happened late Thursday, as what was initially thought to be two shooters - later determined to be four - engaged nearly a dozen police officers in combat. It was a massacre that left five police officers dead and six injured. Three of the injured are in a critical condition, with two more in surgery.
This followed two separate police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, in which both African-Americans were later judged not to have been posing any threat.
Comment: At this point, the police as an institution don't face many options. Death and thug culture are so rampant within police departments all over the United States that the only solution is to completely revamp the system from the bottom up. Since that is unlikely to happen, and in the face of increasing public outrage at the daily murder of innocent civilians by trigger-happy apes in uniform, the only viable option police have is a 'war', as Walsh tweets, in which the police are justified in committing violence in the streets in self-defense. Randomly killing cops in the street serves no strategic purpose, which implies that the people who committed these killings are either stupid or agents provocateur. James Corbett reports: