Update: Man who shot Dallas police was killed in college, not garage

The Dallas police chief says the shooting suspect was killed by a remote-controlled robot on the second floor of a community college, not a parking garage as authorities previously described. 

Chief David Brown said at a news conference Monday that the department has misspoke for days, and that 25-year-old Micah Johnson died inside El Centro Community College in downtown Dallas. Brown did not provide more details, including the location of negotiations that came before the bomb. 

Authorities say Johnson shot and killed five officers and wounded 9 officers and two civilians during a protest Thursday in downtown Dallas.

DYI Comments:  No doubt Micah Johnson now deceased is guilty as sin.  I want to be very clear about that.  However, there is a very disturbing trend regarding the militarization of our police departments.  The shooter was clearly boxed in on the second floor of the community college from which he could not escape.  All they had to do was clear the building of all innocents, lock down adjoining rooms with cops, cut off electricity and water, and wait him out.  This is not second guessing - it is STANDARD PROCEDURE.  Rather than wait him out they mounted a bomb on a robot and blew him up avoiding all of those legal hassles, you know, "due process." 

    

Dallas bomb disposal robot.

I understand the Dallas police desire for vengeance.  The Dallas police side stepped arrest, judge and jury and moved to executioner.  Vengeance was served  Here is where the double standard comes in. You just catch someone who raped/beaten your daughter and you have him cornered in your garage do you now have the right to blow up, beat, or shoot him?

Now that the shooter is dead there is no possibility of interrogation.  Was he working alone or did others help him?  Who knows?  Dead men tell no tales.

This blogger of DYI is 62 years old the break down of the rule of law has now become pervasive in America.  We now have certain people, predominantly the rich, politically powerful, police departments and CEO's of large corporations who do whatever they wish never prosecuted for criminal acts that you or I would go to prison for.  This is destroying the fabric of our society.      

The appalling behavior of the Dallas police will be swept under the rug right along with Hillary Clinton's E-mails and their slush fund foundation. 

DYI