The house of Micah Xavier Johnson, a suspect in a Thursday night shooting incident in which five police officers were killed, is pictured in Mesquite, Texas, U.S. July 8, 2016. REUTERS/Erwin Seba
NEW YORK/MESQUITE, Texas (Reuters) - Former U.S. Army reservist Micah Xavier Johnson posted an angry rant against white people on the Facebook page of a group called Black Panther Party Mississippi last Saturday, denouncing lynching and the brutalizing of black people.
Five days later, police said on Friday, the Afghan war veteran took part in a sniper-style ambush of police officers in Dallas, killing five and wounding seven others before dying in a police-initiated explosion.
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