4 Officers Shot Dead By Snipers, 7 Wounded in Dallas Protest Against Police Violence

[Seraphina]

The world is upside down...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...do-castile

[Paraselene]

The world is the same as it has always been.

[account_inactive]

Hope the attackers get a bullet between their eyes.

[vorlon13]

11 shot, 3 dead . . .

[Jackalope]

While I find the news very disturbing, this was both unsurprising and predictable.

[Seraphina]

The world is the same as it has always been.

True.

[Tiberius]

4th officer has just died. Terrible day for Dallas and America.

[Paraselene]

Eh, I have sympathy where it is deserved and empathy where others lack it.

[Paraselene]

Thread title was changed, I saw that.

[vorlon13]

Even Omaha Nebraska has had violence break out at peace marches this year. The scenario so far has been for the victims family and community leaders to set up and lead a march, and then the march is violently disrupted by friends/family of whoever is being accused of the violence that precipitated the march.

There's also been a trend to more frequent outbursts and disruptions at the court house during trials resulting from some of these highly charged incidents.

Significantly, a recent incident that might have gone that way did not as the 2 mothers involved knew each other prior to the incident and appeared together afterwards. It was a hopeful sign, but it wouldn't take much for that to be forgotten if another situation arises and goes south, and I'd say the odds of that went upwards quite a bit tonight.