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Officials believe Micah Johnson was the only shooter during a Thursday night attack on police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said in a Friday night press conference. Rawlings confirmed that Dallas Police had used a bomb disposal robot to kill Johnson during their standoff.

Rawlings was joined by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who called on Texans to unite in the wake of the tragedy. "Just like we have overcome so many challenges in the past, we will overcome this challenge," Abbott said.

The family of Alton Sterling—the man killed by Baton Rouge police in a questionable shooting last week—wants law-enforcement officials to release surveillance video recorded of the incident. Two cameras at the Triple S Mart captured two white police officers shooting the black CD vendor to death, but the hard drive containing footage of the incident was seized by police that night. Now the family wants to see what is the most complete record of their loved one’s death. “The family would like the release of the video surveillance tapes,” the lawyer for Sterling’s son said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “If we are searching for the truth, it starts here.” Store owner Abdullah Muflahi sued Baton Rouge police for illegally seizing the surveillance video and detaining him last week. Police now say they had a warrant, but Muflahi’s attorney said police exceeded the warrant’s authority and questioned the timeline of the search and seizure.

President Barack Obama, speaking in Dallas this afternoon to a community — and a nation — reeling from last week's deadly sniper attack, said Americans must reject despair during these tough times.
"We turn on the TV or surf the internet, and we can watch positions harden and lines drawn and people retreat to their respective corners," he said at a multi-faith memorial at the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center. "Politicians calculate how to grab attention or avoid the fallout. We see all this, and it's hard not to think sometimes that the center won't hold. And that things might get worse. I understand. I understand how Americans are feeling. But, Dallas, I'm here to say we must reject such despair."

A Kansas City, Kan. police officer was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon while responding to a reported drive-by shooting.
Officials said Capt. Robert David Melton, 46, was pronounced dead at University of Kansas Hospital at 2:55 p.m. local time.
Later Tuesday, authorities said the suspected shooter was caught about a block away from where Melton was shot. The suspect was being questioned along with a second person suspected in the initial drive-by. A third person who had been taken into custody was determined not to have been involved and was released, police said.