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Dallas on lockdown as police, protesters clash
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Law enforcement officers stand outside the emergency room at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. (AP Photo)
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Five Dallas police officers were killed and seven others were wounded by snipers Thursday night during a demonstration protest. (AP Photo)
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The police were combing downtown for what they believed was a bomb planted by the snipers as the heart of the country’s ninth-largest city was put on lockdown. (AP Photo)
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The shooting unfolded near one of the busiest parts of downtown, filled with hotels and restaurants as well as Dallas County government buildings. (AP Photo)
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Emergency responders administer CPR to an unknown patient on a stretcher as law enforcement officials stand nearby at the emergency receiving area of Baylor University Medical Center. (AP)
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People rally in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, July 7, 2016 to protest the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Black motorist Philando Castile, 32, a school cafeteria worker, was shot at close range by a Minnesota cop and seen bleeding to death in a graphic video shot by his girlfriend that went viral Thursday, the second fatal police shooting to rock America in as many days. / AFP PHOTO / Laura Buckman (AFP)
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Dallas police respond after shots were fired during a protest over recent fatal shootings by police in Louisiana and Minnesota. (AP Photo)
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All government buildings in that area are on lockdown. (AP)
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Videos of the scene circulated widely on social media. In many of them, multiple gunshots could be heard ringing out in a city illuminated by police lights. (AP Photo)
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Police said one suspect they had engaged in a shootout had been arrested, and a bomb squad unit was investigating a suspicious package found near the suspect’s location. (AP Photo)
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