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Monday, July 10, 2017
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Local agencies combine to honor the Dallas Police Department on anniversary of slaughter
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Officers from all over the area gathered together at the Grayson County Line on Friday afternoon. One year to the date when Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and fired upon a group of police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five officers and injuring nine others, officers all over the state gathered to pay tribute and some of those included area officers from Grayson County.
California and a November 2009 ambush shooting in Lakewood, Washington; each of these incidents killed four officers.
Slain officers Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Smith and Patrick Zamarripa of the Dallas Police Department and Brent Thompson, an officer for Dallas The shooting was the deadliest Area Rapid Transit, were the incident for U.S. law enforcement focus of an outpouring of sorrow since the September 11 attacks, and gratitude at a memorial, surpassing two related March "Tribute 7/7" in Dallas on the first 2009 shootings in Oakland, anniversary of the ambush.
