“Dallas police ended a standoff with a gunman Friday morning by remotely detonating a ‘bomb robot,’ an unprecedented tactic by officers that rekindles concerns about the militarization of local law enforcement in the United States.
“The bomb blast killed a black U.S. Army reservist identified by authorities as Micah Xavier Johnson, who shot dead five police officers and wounded seven others in Dallas on Thursday night following a peaceful protest over police shootings of [B]lack men.”