Dallas: Dallas police headquarters temporarily heightened security Saturday after receiving a threat against ******rs, two days after a gunman killed five ******rs in the Texas city.
"The
Dallas police Department received an a**nymous threat against law enforcement across the city and has taken precautionary measures,"
Dallas police said in an emailed statement to media.
Though
police ******rs told AFP the
headquarters were on lockdown, the department tweeted that that was **t the case.
SWAT ******rs were deployed at the main building, local media reported. The sight of a masked man caused
police to go on heightened alert, the
Dallas Morning News reported.
"A man wearing a black mask was spotted in a parking garage behind the headquarters," the paper said.
"******rs have completed manual search of the garage. ** suspect found," the
police department tweeted.
"Great job by our ******rs!"
police chief David Brown tweeted
after an all-clear was issued soon after.
The
alert came two days
after a gunman killed five ******rs and wounded seven others in a sniper-style attack during a peaceful protest in
Dallas against
police brutality toward African Americans.
The demonstrations were part of nationwide protests over the fatal
police shootings of two black men this week in Louisiana and Minnesota.
The
Dallas ambush on Thursday marked the single biggest loss of life for law enforcement in the United States since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
Police were set further on edge on Friday as it emerged that several ******rs had been targeted across the country by individuals apparently angered at the recent fatal shootings.
The nightmare scenes in Texas left many fearing a new, dark chapter in America´s troubled race relations.
Thousands marched in US cities overnight on Friday, and there were nasty scenes in Phoenix, Arizona, where
police used pepper spray to disperse stone-throwing protesters. And in
Rochester, New York, 74 people were arrested over a sit-in protest.
At
Dallas police headquarters on Friday, people had flocked to leave flowers and messages of sympathy for the slain ******rs amid an outpouring of support that saw crowds in the city line up to hug
police ******rs.
But elsewhere, fresh protests were planned against
police brutality in at least half a dozen cities on Saturday.
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