| | | |  | | | | Friday July 8, 2016 | | |  | | | | Credit: WFAA | | | | 2 Police Officers Reportedly Shot During Dallas Protest | | | Police officers are responding to reports of multiple shots fired during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas.
Several reports, including the local Fox News affiliate Fox 4, have said two officers were shot.
Dramatic video shows dozens of officers converging on several buildings in downtown Dallas, including a parking garage. In another, several shots can be heard ringing out as sirens blare in the background.
A local CBS affilate reported that one Dallas Police Department officer and one transit officer had been shot.
The DPD and the mayor’s office could not immediately be reached for comment.
Rev. Jeff Hood, an organizer of the rally, told the Dallas Morning News he was at the front of the protest with an officer before he heard “what sounded like six to eight shots.”
“I saw people scramble,” Hood said. “The officer ran towards the shots, I ran away from the shots trying to get people off the streets, and I was grabbing myself to see if I was shot.”
Earlier today, hundreds gathered in cities across the country to protest the recent police shootings of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old killed outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, who was shot during a traffic stop in Minnesota.
Demonstrators were carrying signs and chanting “no justice no peace” and “hands up, don’t shoot” ― common refrains of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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