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Police barricades wrappedaround the headquarters at OnePolice Plaza and other depart-ment buildings in New York.Many cities issued new marchingorders: no solo patrols. No officersshould be alone.

In Burlington, Vt., during rollcall, some officers blinked awaytears. In Los Angeles, the chief didthe same.

In the break room at a Manhat-tan station house, officers — be-hind closed doors, comfortableamong themselves — debatedwhat they saw on the videos of therecent fatal police shootings inLouisiana and Minnesota. Somesaid race had played a role. Oth-ers, one officer said, “put onblinders.”

A rookie officer in Manhattan,five days on the job, texted hermother on Friday. She was on herway to work at a protest. A protestagainst the police.

And a Queens detective quietlyseethed.

“This is insanity,” said the de-tective, speaking on the conditionof anonymity because he was not

authorized to do so publicly. “It’sjust freaking horrendous.”

Reactions to Thursday’s deadlyambush in Dallas swept throughroll-call rooms and squad cars inpolice departments across thecountry. Contempt for the shooterwas universal. But behind it fol-lowed other, varying observationsabout what it means to be a police

officer in 2016, with the attendingfears and frustrations, and amid aseemingly growing gulf betweenthe police and the policed.

“We have broken into tribes,”Charlie Beck, chief of the Los An-geles Police Department, told aclass of cadets who graduated onFriday. “All of a sudden it becomesmore important who your parentsare, what the color of your skin is,than whether you are American.”

“This is not about black lives, orbrown lives or blue lives,” he add-ed. “This is about America.”

Police culture all but forbids oneofficer from publicly criticizing orsecond-guessing the actions ofothers. For that reason, officersinterviewed on Friday would notcomment directly on the videostaken during and immediately af-ter the shootings in Louisiana andMinnesota.

But one fact was clear: When anew video showing what appearsto be police misconduct surfaces,it affects officers everywhere.

“One of the worries that copshave is that no cop can controlwhat another cop does, but allcops will be judged by what theother cop does,” Chief Brandon del

Officers Confront Dual Role: Villain and Victim

By MICHAEL WILSONand MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ

Police officers in Dallas after agunman killed and woundedmany of their colleagues.

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GARLAND, Tex. — There was atime when he was known as awell-mannered young man — aregular at his church and a pleas-ant presence on a tree-lined, sub-urban, multicultural street in aneighborhood called Camelot. Hegrew up to serve his country in Af-ghanistan.

But on Thursday night, 25-year-old Micah Johnson, an African-American, drove his car to a rallyagainst police violence and begankilling officers in downtown Dal-las, hoping to single out the whiteones. In the process, he also man-aged to bring his war back home,killing at least one fellow militaryveteran and heightening fearsthat the nation he had been de-ployed to protect overseas wasnow failing to address its growingracial divide at home.

The Dallas police remained onedge Saturday. In the late after-noon, officers drew their weaponsand cleared an area near the backof their headquarters after a re-port of a suspicious person in a de-

partment parking garage. Theagency later said that no one hadbeen found.

In the past several days, asdemonstrators jammed thestreets in a number of Americancities, protesting police violence,new details emerged about Mr.Johnson’s life. They revealed ayoung man who had returned indisgrace from his stint abroad inthe Army Reserve, but thencontinued a training regimen ofhis own devising, conducting mili-tary-style exercises in his back-yard and reportedly joining a gymthat offered martial arts andweapons classes.

A Dallas County official also re-vealed Saturday that Mr. Johnson— who killed five officers andwounded seven others, as well astwo civilians, before the policekilled him with a robot-deliveredexplosive device — had kept anextensive journal and described amethod of attack in which a gun-man fired on a target and then

Gunman Honed Military Skills To Deadly Conclusion in Dallas

This article is by Richard Fausset, Manny Fernandez and Alan Blinder.

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No moment in the 2016 presi-dential campaign has cried outmore for a unifying candidatethan the police shootings of twoblack men last week and the ensu-ing national uproar, followed bythe shocking sniper ambush thatkilled five police officers in Dallas.

And no other moment has re-vealed more starkly how hard it isfor Donald J. Trump and HillaryClinton to become that candidate.

Never have two presidential no-minees been as unpopular as Mr.Trump and Mrs. Clinton, and theyare neither fully trusted by theirown parties nor showing signifi-cant crossover appeal in the polls.Mr. Trump, the self-describedchampion of law and order, is alsothe political figure many peopleblame for sowing division and ha-tred with his attacks on illegal im-migrants, Muslims, Mexicans andothers. Rather than defuse ten-

sion, he electrifies crowds andvanquishes rivals throughprovocations that he delights incalling politically incorrect.

Of the two, Mrs. Clinton wouldseem more able, and driven, to tryto bring the country together. Shehas a large following among blackvoters and speaks ardently aboutthe need for “respect” and “loveand kindness.” After Dallas, shecalled on “white people to under-stand how African-Americans feelevery day.” Yet many on the rightand some on the left dislike her in-tensely, and even her admirerssay she lacks the public emotion,oratorical skills and reputation forhonesty to persuade large num-bers of Americans to see thingsher way.

The need for a reassuring andhealing voice has come at a partic-

Heal Discord? 2016 Candidates

Are Seen as a Main Source of It

By PATRICK HEALY

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Left, demonstrators in Phoenix on Friday protested police shootings of black men. Right, Veronica Jones and her boyfriend, Kenneth Parson, on Friday at a memorial at Dallas Police Headquarters.

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Long after her two sons were inbed, Shanel Berry kept vigil infront of the television at her homein Waterloo, Iowa, watching theweek’s horror unfurl and obsess-ing over a single question: Wasthe gunman who killed five Dallaspolice officers black?

“I just thought, ‘Please, pleasedon’t let him be black,’” because ifhe was, she worried that policeshootings of black men could be-come easy to justify. Ms. Berry, anelementary school teacher, saidshe hurt for the officers and theirfamilies. But when the gunmanwas identified and his photoflashed on the screen, she sankeven lower.

“I told my boys, ‘Now, this willmake it even harder.’”

Fifteen hundred miles away,David Moody, a retired Las Vegaspolice officer, woke on Fridaymorning to fellow officers writingmessages of anger and condo-lence on their Facebook pages,posting black-clad badges in soli-darity with the Dallas Police De-partment. He had seethed at whathe called the anti-police sentimentof protests over the deaths of twoblack men fatally shot last weekby the police in Louisiana andMinnesota. And now this.

“The atmosphere that’s outthere right now,” Mr. Moody said.“We don’t get up in the morningthinking how can we violate some-body’s rights today, how can wepick on this type of person. Everyguy I know that’s out there work-ing is getting up every day andthinking he’s going to make a dif-ference.”

Even as political leaders, pro-testers and law enforcement offi-cials struggled to find commonground and lit candles of sharedgrief, there was an inescapablefear that the United States was be-ing pulled farther apart in its an-ger and anguish over back-to-back fatal shootings by police offi-cers followed by a sniper attack bya military veteran who said hewanted to kill white police offi-cers.

Just days after the UnitedStates celebrated its 240th birth-day, people in interviews across

Seeking Unity,Nation Debates

Racial Chasm

By JACK HEALYand NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES

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It felt like a watershed momentfor a scattered and still-young civ-il rights movement.

Inside Black Lives Matter, thenational revulsion over videos ofpolice officers shooting to deathblack men in Minnesota and Loui-siana was undeniable proof thatthe group’s message of outrageand demands for justice had fi-nally broken through.

Even the white governor ofMinnesota, Mark Dayton, in apained public concession, em-braced the movement’s central ar-gument. “Would this have hap-pened if those passengers — thedriver and the passengers — werewhite?” he asked. “I don’t think itwould’ve.”

Then, in an instant, everythingchanged.

Black Lives Matter now facesperhaps the biggest crisis in itsshort history: It is both scram-bling to distance itself from an

African-American sniper in Dal-las who set out to murder whitepolice officers and trying to rebuta chorus of detractors who blamethe movement for inspiring hisdeadly attack.

“What I saw in Dallas was dev-astating to our work,” said Jedidi-ah Brown, a Chicago pastor whohas emerged as an outspokenBlack Lives Matter activist over

Strides of Black Lives Matter Halt in an Instant

By MICHAEL BARBAROand YAMICHE ALCINDOR

The daughter of Diamond Reynolds, whose boyfriend was shotby the police. Children are being caught up in violence. Page 14.

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