Full Coverage: Dallas police shooting

On Thursday morning, a fire alarm in the Los Angeles Times’ building went off.

In Sgt.

The recent fatal shootings of police in Dallas, Baton Rouge and San Diego recall a treacherous, not-so-distant past for law enforcement, when groups like the Black Panthers called on their supporters to execute officers.

The Los Angeles Police Department will increase helicopter patrols and the screenings of 911 calls in the wake of the fatal shootings of three Baton Rouge officers, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Sunday.

Citing his concerns over copycat violence, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck detailed Monday the steps the LAPD has taken to better protect officers after what he described as a “cowardly attack of assassination” on police in Baton Rouge.

Twice now in less than two weeks, police officers have been targeted in lethal mass shootings by men apparently looking to avenge the deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement.

Eight Burbank and Glendale police officers traveled to Dallas last week to join thousands in law enforcement in mourning the loss of five officers shot and killed in a sniper attack during a protest march earlier this month.

In the wake of the killings of five police officers in Dallas, a group from the Costa Mesa Police Department flew to Texas last week to mourn with other law enforcement agencies from across the nation.

To the editor: In brief moments in time when people are struck with grief, when there is a human urge to reach out — to comfort, to console, to be consoled, to lean on one another — our defenses are dropped and honesty can emerge.

The president who acknowledged the elusive nature of national unity on Tuesday seemed far removed from the little-known state senator who made his political mark boasting of its presence.

When five police officers were killed and nine wounded in an attack during a protest march in Dallas on July 7, it rattled the nation.

The police family often speaks in code, badge numbers and radio signals, expects rookies to pay their dues and veterans to have one another’s backs.

President Obama urged activists and police to set aside their differences and acknowledge one another’s humanity as he presided over a memorial Tuesday for the officers slain last week in Dallas and tried to navigate an America deeply divided and in mourning after a week of violence.

“Black Lives Still Matter.”

Texas has always prided itself on its vigorous exercise of the 2nd Amendment.

When the shooting started at the Black Lives Matter protest here last week, Shetamia Taylor shouted at her four sons to run.

Behind candles and lights dimmed to near darkness, their faces flashed across the screen.

Remember this drivel? “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

The Dallas sniper’s home had bomb-making materials and a rambling journal which showed plans for a larger effort to target law-enforcement officers for what he saw as abuse of minorities, according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown.

A prominent Black Lives Matter activist and 100 other people were taken into custody, authorities said Sunday, after protesters took to the streets to call for justice and voice anger over the fatal shooting of an African-American man by two white police officers.

The gunman who killed five police officers and wounded nine other people in Dallas this week had been accused of “egregious” sexual harassment in the Army and spent years accumulating a stockpile of weapons, according to investigators and his military lawyer.

Protests over police violence continued Saturday across California, ranging from small events in Beverly Hills and downtown Los Angeles to a larger one in the Bay Area.

The massacre that left five Dallas police officers dead comes 46 years after a notorious ambush in Santa Clarita that left four California Highway Patrol officers dead.

Despite the week’s deadly police shootings in Dallas, Americans remain united in addressing issues of inequality and injustice, President Obama said Saturday, rejecting comparisons between the recent violence and the turbulence of the late 1960s.

Protests were held across California on Friday — with more planned this weekend — to express concern about police violence but also to honor the officers killed in the Dallas massacre.

The words were heartfelt.

Negotiators had been talking for hours with the hunkered-down killer of five police officers in downtown Dallas when the man suddenly resumed firing with an assault rifle.

The brazen attack in downtown Dallas that killed five police officers and injured nine other people was the act of a lone gunman, an Afghanistan veteran drawn to Black Power symbology and a determination to kill white people, authorities concluded Friday.

A white cop shoots and kills an unthreatening black man at point-blank range during a traffic stop, and liberal activists demonize law enforcement.

The first call of the night: a fight at a Compton apartment complex with a machete, maybe a handgun.

I watched a police officer being murdered on TV on Thursday night. Maybe you did too.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown stood before the television cameras Friday morning, hours after a gunman fatally shot five officers, and made one thing clear: His department was hurting.

Less than 12 hours after a sniper killed several police officers in Dallas, three dozen fresh-faced recruits sat solemnly in dark-blue uniforms outside the Los Angeles Police Department’s downtown headquarters, staring straight ahead during a graduation ceremony marking the end of their journey to become fully fledged cops.

Hillary Clinton had been preparing Friday to have the conversation about criminal justice that she has had throughout her campaign, one in which there is no ambiguity about which Americans are under attack.

The shooter, barricaded in a downtown Dallas parking garage, bantered with negotiators during an hours-long standoff.

Crises that arise during presidential campaigns often define the candidates.

The Rev.

What happened in Dallas is unambiguously awful — unforgivable, indefensible, tragic.

When Mark Hughes became aware that his photo was being blasted across cyberspace in a police tweet as a person of interest in the Dallas shootings, the first thing he did was flag down a cop.

President Obama began the week by wading forcefully into the race to succeed him, warning, “Nobody fully understands the challenges of the job of president until you’ve actually sat at that desk.”

Several hundred people filled Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas on Friday for an interfaith service hosted by dozens of clergy.

A 13-year-old in California shook her head at the TV.

Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah gave an impassioned speech on Thursday night’s episode of “The Daily Show” in the wake of the police-involved killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

For more than two decades now, law enforcement agencies have pushed officers to build bonds with the communities they patrol, shedding the “warrior cop” image in favor of cooperation and collaboration.

Former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh declared, “This is now war” and called for President Obama to “watch out” in a Twitter post reacting to the Dallas shooting that killed five police officers and injured seven.

President Obama called the shooting deaths of at least five Dallas police officers a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack” and a “wrenching reminder” of the sacrifices of law enforcement.