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Aired July 09, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:41] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm live at CNN's Center in Atlanta, Natalie Allen here reporting and I'll go to my colleague George Howell there in Dallas. Hi George.

GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Natalie, good day. Your George Howell here live in Dallas. The backdrop behind me, the Dallas Police Department.

Now, I want to show you here because this quite frankly tells the story. You get a sense of the outpouring of love and support that has come through here in Dallas. All of the flowers, all of the balloons, teddy bears, the messages for these five officers, five officers who put their lives on the line just the other day killed in the line of duty.

They were gunned down and seven other colleagues were also wounded when a sniper opened fire on what started as a peaceful protest here in Dallas, Thursday night. Two civilians also wounded in that attack. Authorities believe that the gunman, 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, a former U.S. Army Reservist that he was the lone shooter. They say that he was armed with a rifle and had a handgun.

Police negotiators say that they told him that he was upset, he was upset about recent police shootings of African-Americans at the hands of police officers. And that he wanted to kill white people especially white officers. The Texas Governor Greg Abott hailed the police for their efforts here to protect demonstrators when that gunfire erupted. Listen.

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GOV. GREG ABBOTT, (R) TEXAS: The past 24 hours in Dallas has been a bearable tale of two cities. On the one hand has been the tale of heroism of police officers and at the same time, it's been a tale of cowardice by an assassin.

We are so proud even in our mourning today of the men and women who wear the uniform of the Dallas Police Department as well as the Dallas Area Rapid Transit for their heroism in the face of remarkable danger.

(END VIDEO CLIP) HOWELL: Governor Abbott there speaking. And now we bring in Detective Frederick Bishop joining us now, live. A detective in the crimes against persons division and he has been with the Dallas Police Department for 21 years. And we bring you in and we thank you for taking time with us because you knew one of these officers that didn't come home the other day.

DETECTIVE F. BISHOP, DALLAS, TEXAS POLICE DEPARTMENT: Yeah. Lorne Ahrens and I've worked with his wife Katrina Ahrens. She was a -- she first come out the academy, she worked at southeast along with her husband and that's how I first met both of them.

HOWELL: So you knew them both?

BISHOP: Yes, yes.

HOWELL: How is this department dealing with it and how are your colleagues dealing with it and how is his family dealing with this?

BISHOP: Well, even today, I work in shape like some of the detective up there. Your heart is heavy dealing with the death of just members of what you call a family. And no one promotes violence but you have to understand why -- I guess the question is why would you do this? And so our hearts are going out to Katrina and all the other officers and their families, what's going on with them and the things they have to go through the days to come.

HOWELL: Talk to us about what it's like to be in that role. Because again, you know, your job is to protect and serve the people there that are there to protest -- protesting, you know, alleged police brutality throughout the United States. That's the topic that they are there for. At the same time you're there to do your job. And what I understand about the relationship here in Dallas is that this police department actually interacts with those protesters.

BISHOP: Yes, they have community policing. And I want to say there's no one wakes up in the morning to say I'm going to write tickets or going to put people in jail. You wake up and you want to help the citizens. You come in and you do what is expected of you. And I guess the sad part about -- of this, is that you have someone who took it to the extreme.

Like I said, I've known Katrina since she come on to the department. One of the chiefs that -- one of the one-star chiefs that's here, she trained her which was my partner.

[03:05:02] Good officer, her husband was a good officer. So, our heart is heavy. Yeah, we just -- we were sitting up there today and I was with some other detectives today and your heart is heavy because of the strain or the path at which their kid have to take now, the children that she had. Lorne had himself, his son and his daughter which she have to deal with now.

HOWELL: You know, there are these really important topics that are to be discussed, to be protested by people. We cover all of these things as they happen. But, you know, just to break it out of these binary terms I mean here you are an African-American officer mourning the loss of your friends.

BISHOP: Yes, sir.

HOWELL: It's not that simple and that is ...

BISHOP: I think, you know, there are things that happen in the world that we can't control.

HOWELL: Right.

BISHOP: I think one of the senators are T.D. Jakes said, a higher power. Well, at this point we need Jesus. And I think at some point in time we have to sit back and relax -- I mean sit back and understand that there are some people out there that are evil. There are some people out there that take things in their own hand.

At what point do we sit back and say, OK, this is not what we're about. We're about healing, growing together, as a family, as a police department and the citizens. And as I stated before, no one comes here to make arrests or wake up in the morning and say I'm making an arrest or I'm taking you to jail. We're just here to protect and serve and we have families also that we want to protect and go home to in the evenings.

HOWELL: We really appreciate you taking time with us. We send our condolences for your loss.

BISHOP: Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate you all coming out and just being here and showing that we are about the citizens of Dallas. Thank you.

HOWELL: Detective Bishop, thank you for your time.

BISHOP: Thank you sir.

HOWELL: And as you can understand, there are so many people that are remembering their colleagues, remembering these loved ones who were lost in this terrible shooting. The deadliest single incident for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11 attacks. Five police officers killed in the line of duty.

Martin Savidge has more.

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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Officer Patrick Zamarripa loved being a cop. He served on the Dallas Police Force for five years. on Thursday night he was deployed to watch over the protests. A navy veteran, who survived multiple tours in the Iraq war.

Officer Zamarripa died on the streets of Dallas. He leaves behind two young children. His father and brother posting tributes to him on Facebook and twitter, saying they couldn't be prouder. Officer Zamarripa was 32 years old.

Officer Michael Krol worked as a Sheriff's deputy in Michigan and moved to Dallas in 2007 to fulfill his goal of becoming a police officer. His uncle says he worked hard to join the Dallas Police Force. Officer Krol was 40 years old.

Officer Lorne Ahrens was a 14-year veteran of the Dallas Police Force. He was married to a Dallas police detective and leaves behind two children.

Brent Thompson was a Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer. A seven-year veteran of the force. He was a father and a grandfather and a newlywed. He married a fellow transit officer just weeks ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just spoke with him a couple weeks ago. He was in great spirits.

SAVIDGE: Before working in Dallas, he worked overseas as a police liaison officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the first officer to be killed in the protest. Officer Thompson was 43 years old.

Three other D.A.R.T. officers were also shot in the protests but they're expected to survive. Officer Misty McBride was shot twice, once in the arm and once at abdomen. Her fellow officers helped her to safety. Her young daughter says she was able to tell her mom she loved her before she headed in for surgery.

HUNTER MCBRIDE, DAUGHTER OF INJURED VICTIM: I was just happy that she was okay. That's really it. That she can live on to tomorrow. And that I'm just glad that she's alive, really.

SAVIDGE: Two civilians were also wounded in the shooting. One of them was attending the protest with her four sons. When the gunfire broke out 37-year-old Shetamia Taylor was shot in the right leg and immediately jumped to cover her 15-year-old son with her body.

THERESA WILLIAMS, SISTER OF INJURED VICTIM: She jumped on top to cover him on the ground as she pushed him in between two cars in the curb. Her other three boys scattered and ran in opposite directions. So she lost three of her boys, didn't know where they were.

SAVIDGE: She's expected to make a full recovery. And her sister says she's been praying for the families of the fallen police officers.

Martin Savidge, CNN, Dallas.

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HOWELL: Martin, thank you.

And as Martin just mentioned, Patrick Zamarripa, one of those officers killed the other day. Patrick's own dad shared a little bit with us about his son just earlier.: Listen.

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[03:10:05] RICK ZAMARRIPA, FATHER OF OFFICER KILLED IN DALLAS: He's very, very helpful young man. He was very giving. He would give you his last dollar he had at his pocket if you need it and bend over backwards to help anybody out. He's very patient. He would try to help anybody out the best he could.

If you need help, Patrick, he was to offer you a help even if he couldn't do nothing, he'd offer it to you. My son, he was -- since day one he's born, he was a hero. He was my little hero. And he is a big hero -- he is a big hero now. Yeah, he's going to be missed.

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HOWELL: Patrick's father also said that his son cared deeply about his country and that he loved his time at the navy and that he loved his job as a police officer.

We've been seeing a number of protests across the United States. This day, things for the most part, they were peaceful mostly Friday. But, we're hearing reports that police in Phoenix, Arizona that they used pepper spray on protesters there to get the crowd moving. You see these images of a police involved with those protesters there.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I saw officers with what looks like a paint ball gun and my understanding on the ground was that they were pepper balls. People were holding their eyes. You could see a lot of -- I would see about half a dozen folks who are on the ground. You know, covering their eyes, obviously in distress. My photographer -- photojournalist Jim Fry (ph) actually got pepper sprayed a little bit but kept going. And it was pretty tense there for quite some time.

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HOWELL: That was Reporter Derrick Stall, a reporter with one of our Phoenix affiliates there in Phoenix.

Let's talk more about this situation. There's so much quite frankly to talk about. Bringing in Civil Rights Attorney Areva Martin joining us now live via Skype from Los Angeles, California.

Areva, it's good to have you with us. So, look, it's the situation where there so many different topics. And it's easy for them all to get jumbled together. But let's parse them out and break them out.

So, the first topic, the fatal police involved shooting of two African-American men in Minnesota and Louisiana sparked the protest that we saw. And there was a great deal of concern just the other day and I know you raised this question. Hey, let's not, you know, link this guy doing these terrible deranged things to the protesters who have their, you know, pro -- the reason to protest.

AREVA MARTIN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: You're right George. I was actually on CNN, on the "CNN Tonight" with Don Lemon as the Dallas shooting was unfolding. And we were talking about the Baton Rouge and the Minneapolis shooting of the African-American men by police officers. And as the information was coming in about the Dallas situation, there was this inclination I think for there to be a link between the shooting and the peaceful protests. And I just kept cautioning everyone during the panel and others did as

well. Not to jump to those conclusions because we just didn't have any information and what I know about the "Black Lives Matter" and the other activist groups that have been on the grounds in cities like Ferguson and Baltimore, New York and really all over this country is that, for the most part these protests have been peaceful. They are comprised of mothers with baby strollers and grandparents and families and college students.

It didn't fit the pattern of what we were hearing about the shooter in Dallas, someone that seemed to have a lot of skills, someone who seemed to have premeditated the attack. And as we now learn from the Dallas police, this 25-year-old Johnson, he's not a part of and was not a part of the peaceful protesters that were out raising awareness about police brutality when he engaged in the horrific crime that he committed against those officers.

HOWELL: You know, and looking at Areva through a journalistic lens, you know, here's the thing. You know, we didn't have any information to link this guy, you know, to what, you know, to the protests. We didn't have that at that time yesterday. And at the same time, you know, police had no knowledge of him. So there was just no way to jump the gun on that. And now we understand that, you know, what he did, you know, were his own reasons, you know. So, basically we're hearing that from police, hearing it from people here in Dallas.

[03:04:58] MARTIN: Yeah, I think we've seen some of that happening today as well George. We've had several, even elected officials that have been talking today and really wanting to blame "Black Lives Matter" and other activist groups for the shootings. And I reject that notion.

I listened to the founder of "Black Lives Matter". I listened to so many of the organizers of that Dallas protest and it's very clear that their intentions, their efforts to raise awareness about the injustice in the criminal justice system is not about being anti-police or enacting violence against the police.

And it's important to know, you don't have to be anti-police to be pro-justice and equality in the criminal justice system. And I really think that's an important message for all of us to take away. Is that, they're not mutually exclusive. You can be someone who promotes the end of what is police brutality and reforming the criminal justice system while at the same time being completely against any kind of violence against anyone and definitely against police officers.

HOWELL: Areva, the story of this night, obviously, here in Dallas, Texas, you know, this community, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex realizing that, you know, these, you know, officers who, you know, went in to do their job, their job to protect and serve the public. They went in and to do that and as I've said before, you know, just knowing law enforcement families, you know, these people who are waiting for their loved ones to come through that door, come in, but they didn't happen for them the other night. And, you know, this community certainly in mourning, a great deal of grief here in Dallas for the loss of the officers. So, Areva, thank you for being with us. Go ahead real quickly.

MARTIN: Thank you George. Just want to say, the whole country is in mourning. You know, my heart goes out to those families. It's just been an incredible week for this country. And I, like so many others, are just hoping this causes us to have that critical discussion and really take some action to heal our communities.

HOWELL: Areva, there are a lot of discussions being had. We appreciate you being with us. Thank you.

Now, as we mentioned, the Dallas ambush that followed the fatal shootings of two African-American men by police officers. We take a closer look at how these incidents are affecting race relations here in the United States as Newsroom continues.

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[03:20:18] ALLEN: And welcome back to our coverage. I'm Natalie Allen live in Atlanta. We want to update you on the deadly police ambush in Dallas, Texas that left five officers dead. A sniper shot 12 officers and two civilians Thursday night at a peaceful protest.

The mayor says, the 25-year-old military veteran was acting alone. Police killed him during a standoff where he said he had bombs. The mass shooting occurred during one of the many demonstrations across the country demanding answers about the killing of two black men by police in two days. The protests continued on Friday in Phoenix a few hours ago. Witnesses say police used pepper spray on demonstrators.

The families of a man killed by police this week in Louisiana and Minnesota are continuing to speak out. Police shot Alton Sterling several times on Tuesday after a homeless man called 911. A source says the man kept asking Sterling for money and Sterling brandished his gun. The 37-year-old was a father. The mother of one of his sons spoke with our Don Lemon.

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QUINYETTA MCMILLON, MOTHER OF ALTON STERLING'S SON: It's an unbearable pain especially being a mother with a teenage son and it's like, you know, what's the best thing that you tell him besides I love you and everything is going to be okay? We have to stay together. We have to pray together. And honestly, that's what has really been keeping me and Cameron focused with the help of my family as well.

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ALLEN: And now to the other story, the fiancee of Philando Castile captured the moments after his shooting on Wednesday in a live Facebook video post. She says that a police officer shot Castile after pulling him over for a broken taillight. And he went to reach for his wallet to get his license after being asked for his identification. We heard from his fiancee Diamond Reynolds on Friday.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DIAMOND REYNOLDS, FIANCEE OF PHILANDO CASTILE: It's about all of the families that have lost people. This thing that has happened in Dallas, it was not because of something that transpired in Minnesota today. This is bigger than Philando. This is bigger than Trayvon Martin, this is bigger than Sandra Bland. This is bigger than all of us. So, today I just want justice for everyone, everyone around the world.

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ALLEN: U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Dallas early next week to pay respects to the fallen officers. CNN's Stephanie Elam has more on how the terrifying event a Thursday night unfolded.

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STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Details emerging about what is now the deadliest attack on police officers since 9/11. Five Dallas police officers killed. Seven officers and two civilians wounded during a peaceful "Black Lives Matter" protest. One of many occurring nationwide following the shooting deaths of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota at the hands of police this week.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We got a guy with a long rifle. We don't know where the hell he's at.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Slow down. He's in the damn building right there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Assist officers, shots fired.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Code three, stay off the radio. Officer down.

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ELAM: Tonight, authorities have identified the shooter as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, a self described black militant and former army reservist who was deployed to Afghanistan as a carpentry and masonry specialist.

During the search of the suspect's home, detectives found bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a personal journal of combat tactics. The chilling moments captured on cell phone video as the shooter engaged with police.

DAVID BROWN, CHIEF DALLAS POLICE: This was a well-planned, well- thought out, evil tragedy by these suspects.

ELAM: Police are now revealing what Johnson told negotiators during the lengthy standoff. BROWN: He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he want to kill white people especially white officers.

ELAM: And explaining the decision to take Johnson down using a robot armed with explosives.

BROWN: We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was. Other options would have exposed the officers to grave danger.

ELAM: President Obama addressing the shooting from Poland.

[03:25:04] BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT UNITED STATES: There has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement. Police in Dallas were on duty, doing their jobs keeping people safe during peaceful protests.

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ALLEN: And again, President Obama will visit Dallas this week.

After a short break, hear the very latest about the investigation of the ambush of officers there in Dallas, Texas. We're back live from Dallas right after this.

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ALLEN: And welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. You're watching CNN. I'm Natalie Allen live in Atlanta.

HOWELL: And I'm George Howell live here in Dallas, Texas. The United States and all around this city, for sure, mourning the loss of these five officers killed in the line of duty in an ambush that happened on the streets here. We're also learning more about the suspect behind this attack being called an act of domestic terrorism.

Police say the man that you see here, and he was only shooter. Authority say he was 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson. Police killed the former U.S. Army reservist after a long standoff that played out through the night. Authorities are investigating whether other people might have been involved in planning this attack. And although, seven officers and two civilians, they were all wounded.

Christopher Phelps is a professor of American History at the University Nottingham in England then now joins us live to talk more about what we saw here in Dallas.

And here's the thing, you know, when we talk about this situation and this person behind this attack, we can talk about so many different topics -- I mean from radicalization, you know, to just the long history when it comes to race relations here.

CHRISTOPHER PHELPS, AMERICAN HISTORY PROFESSOR, NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY: Yes, indeed. It's a terrible tragedy and at this point, of course, it's extremely unclear how extensive his political involvements were, what kind of groups he was tied to, whether he was acting absolutely alone or whether it was in some way possibly concerted. A lot of it is up in the air. But he did raise the black power fist on his Facebook page which -- and there are indications that he might have been connected with the New Black Panther party in some way at least as a supporter of it which is different from the historical Black Panther party that he might have heard about from the 1960s. It's much more of a racial hate group.

HOWELL: When we talk race in politics and in many different situations, keep in mind, let's talk about the presumptive Republican nominee right now, Donald Trump, he has a group within, you know, the group of followers, some people who follow him who are part of fringe groups, but important not to let that group, you know, overshadow the fact that there are consecutives who follow Donald Trump for other reasons. So, similar here when it comes to the Black Lives Matter movement and you have this deranged guy who goes to do what he does.

PHELPS: I think that's very important distinction which is that the vast majority of Black Lives Matter activists including those marching on the streets of Dallas the night this happened are nonviolent and committed to protests but not to assassinations and would disavow any such act and consider it tragic. And that this is not some natural outgrowth of the Black Lives Matter movement. It is, perhaps, a natural outgrowth of the state of affairs in the United States in which police induced fatalities seem to many African-Americans to be out of control and the protest movement's ineffectuality in bringing the hearts of those which leads to a frustration. And somebody whose unhinged and unstable and misguided can take matters into their own hands in ways that are deeply counterproductive and terrible.

HOWELL: You speak of the Black Lives Matter movement and I remember, you know, I also think back to Ferguson, Missouri which was the birth, the beginning of that movement. And again we are seeing those protests grow and grow especially after we see time after time after time these police involved shootings that are investigated by authorities. We appreciate you joining us this day and we appreciate your insights. Thank you.

Let's go back to the CNN center in Atlanta with my colleague, Natalie Allen, Natalie.

ALLEN: Thank you, George. And we want to get more on these racial tensions in the U.S. Talking about Charles Coleman is a former prosecutor and trial lawyer and he joins me from New York. Charles, thank you for being with us. We appreciate your time.

I want to use a quote that we heard from President Obama earlier this week. He said, "These are not isolated incidents. These are systematic of a broader set of racial disparities in the criminal justice system," talking about the number of African-Americans who are pulled over, 30% more are likely to be black than white. And how many people are charged with mandatory minimums, 75% more blacks. What is it? How did we get to this moment in our country and this tension and inequity? You worked in the court system a long time. CHARLES COLEMAN, JR. CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Well, Natalie, America

has had for several years now, several generations actually, a two- tiered system of justice in our criminal justice system is broken and it needs to be fixed.

In large part there is a very justified breakdown feeling among blacks and morning our community we are targeted, we are targeted at rates higher than members of other communities. And for less serious offenses we receive more harsher punishments. And I think that's indicative across the country.

And so, there is this pervasive feeling that the odds are stacked against us and the numbers support that. If you talk about police brutality for example, police deaths, black Americans account for somewhere in the 20th percentile of police deaths, almost 24% of police deaths in America involve African-Americans.

[03:30:12] Yet we're still -- we're only 13% of the population. And so when you start looking at those numbers you understand a little bit more what the President is talking about with respect to that disparity being a very real thing for many Americans.

ALLEN: And it seems, Mr. Coleman that ever since Treyvon Martin there have been outpourings, the Black Lives Matter of group came up and every time it happens their protests it can happen again -- it can't keep happening again. Why does this keep happening?

COLEMAN: Well one of the things that I've been talking about quite a bit of late is the fact that, absent from all of these conversations is the willingness from the law enforcement community to genuinely come to this conversation and enter the discussion with the sense of being willing to think about things differently and examine their practices in different ways.

It continues to happen because racism and implicit bias are continuing to be real things and they're pervasive in American police culture. You can't take that out of a person just because you give them of that badge and a gun. And as one of the things that because problematic American law enforcement is one of the only professional communities that is unable for some reason to stand up and say hey, you know what, we can improve our practices. We can do things better and that becomes a huge obstacle from moving the discussion forward.

ALLEN: Yes, it does. And we would we start we want to separate out these protest and it would because that the men who lost their lives yesterday in Dallas. That if it's lose a killing this lead to, what when we say we got to move it forward, who, how, when? We've seen people come together blacks, whites, Latinos, take to the streets just to say please stop. What -- Who can do it? The next president? The police?

CHARLES F. COLEMAN JR.: This is a very interesting question because it involves all of us participating in the conversation. When I say all of us the president and his remarks was very careful to point out that this was not black issue but this is not a white issue. This is a human issue. This is the issue involving anyone who is connected to or has an invested interest in justice and fairness.

And s, in that instance or with that in mind all of us who are humans, all of us who have any sense of humanity need to be speaking up and speaking out against in justice, against overpolicing, against that police practices and in being willing to willing engage and in understanding and in advancement of what is right. You have had all these conversations and you have heard from Black Lives Matter. You heard from the communities that have been repeatedly oppressed and victimized.

Now it's time to hear from the other people who have seen it and know that it's going on and who are going to raise their voices in support of actually changing things. It can't be the same voices it has to be people who are willing to leverage their privilege willing to use their platforms to speak out its all about change.

ALLEN: We thank you so much for joining us Charles Coleman in New York. Thank you Mr. Coleman.

COLEMAN: Thanks, Natalie.

ALLEN: We'll have much more on the shootings in Dallas just ahead and as more people talk about what happen, time to figure it all out. Also we had here South Korea that the North has launched a ballistic missile from the submarine/ We'll have a live report from Seoul about that.

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[03:36:53] ALLEN: We'll bring you more from Dallas shortly the first we have an International news to bring to you, North Korea has launched a ballistic missile from a submarine this is according to the South Korea Military it has the missile was launched in the seas Southeast of Sinpo City in the east of North Korea for more of what we know about this latest move by the capital Pyongyang, we go to our Matt Rivers In Seoul. The question is do we know if it was successful, Matt?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We know that it was not successful that according to South Korean defense officials who also told us this launched happen around 11:30 in the morning and they said that it was not successful. They would no elaborate on that but South Korean local media here is reporting that while the missile did leave the submarine that it was launched from and make it to about 10 kilometers in the air it only traveled forward for a few kilometers before exploding and in therefore failing.

And this is the second such test the missile launched from a submarine that has failed this year that the North Korean have attempted that it was back in April that a similar test was conducted that missile only traveled about 30 kilometers or so before it too failed. Then and those are just a part of a series of provocations that we've seen in a very busy 2016 there have been other types of missiles tested and then of course there was the nuclear test back in January. So this is just the latest of what is been a busy, a busy year for Pyongyang. ALLEN: And why is it so important they figure out how launch from a submarine and what would that do to the pressure on North Korea and the tension there on the region if they did succeed.

RIVERS: Well what you hear from experts is two things really by moving forward by getting a functioning SLBM program, North Korea would be able to do two things. One it would be able to perhaps launch this missiles with less of a warning at two countries like United States and South Korea that are counseling monitoring North Korea it might may detecting a launch of that much harder and it also gives the North Koreans a better strategic game frankly. It allows them to go more places that launch from sea is supposed to having to launch from installations that are land locked that you can go just about anywhere you want in a submarine in terms of you know in the oceans out the open sea and so it gives them an added strategic advantages. And because of those two things you can expect the North Koreans to continue to try in advance this program how successful they will be and how soon they will be successful if they are successful remains to be seen that on.

ALLEN: Matt Rivers for us there in Seoul, South Korea thank you Matt. In the wake of the shooting in Dallas, U.S President Barack Obama will shorten the Spanish end of this European trip this weekend and travel to Dallas early next week. Mr. Obama is in Poland right now for NATO meeting and the coming hours the President said on Friday that U.S was horrified by what the called the vicious calculated and despicable attack on Law enforcement in Dallas.

[03:40:02] The news of the Dallas shooting may have become the focus from Mr. Obama but at that NATO Summit in Poland the future of the alliance and Russia are on the agenda.

Nic Robertson is joining us from Warsaw he's been covering for us Russia and the future of the alliance, no small topics to discuss there, Nic?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is leading to what's being called an inflection point in the relationship -- historic relationship between NATO and Russia.

You are seeing a buildup of NATO forces going from sort of reassuring its eastern allies to a real deterrent for Russia two years ago at the Summit in Wales -- the NATO Summit in Wales. It was agreed to put 40,000 additional NATO troops in heel to toe rotation with prepositioned equipment in the east of Europe. That is now being realized. That's what's being discussed here. But also, what is now required additionally given Russia's response to that.

So what we heard just yesterday was that four additional battalions, United States, Germany, Britain, possibly Canada, providing those -- the bulk of those four additional battalions go into the Baltic States, Latvian, Lithuania or Estonia and here in Poland, the United States committing those forces to Poland.

And this is on top of the sort of rapid reaction force that has been established in Europe, 13,000 troops that could move within a couple days if there was a Russian incursion.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg, if you will. There's, talking about here, resilience of the nations, if you had to deal with the cyber threat, if you had deal with a hybrid threat and to be able to deal with the sort of a chemical biological nuclear possibilities as well.

Again, that's just the Russian portion -- the Russia portion of this. Those discussions today will be about Afghanistan, about Ukraine at the end of the day.

President Obama will meet with what's called the quint that will be Britain, Germany, France and Italy, to discuss with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine about the situation in Ukraine and the Minsk Agreement there between Ukraine and Russia that tried to bring about an end of the tensions in the east of Ukraine and allow Ukraine to control its borders, its own international borders all the way along the border with Russia.

So, a lot to get through right here before President Obama then moves on now not to Seville but to Madrid, allowing him to sort of cut short this trip, returning back to Washington late, late Sunday. Natalie?

ALLEN: It's his last trip to Europe as president. All right, Nic Robertson for us there in Warsaw, thank you.

A super typhoon has been downgraded now to a tropical storm as it moves from Taiwan toward China. Before the weekend, the typhoon killed at least three people and injured more than 140.

The storm battered Taiwan's eastern coast, leaving a path of destruction as it swept the shore, more than 16,000 people forced to leave their homes in that one.

Ahead here, the Dallas police chief says he is heartbroken over the ambush that killed five of his officers. He has endured some personal tragedies of his own during his 30 years on the force. We'll talk about that next.

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Zain Asher and this is your Road to Rio update.

With the opening ceremony less than a month away, an Oxford University study has found that Brazil's Olympic Games are actually running 51 percent overbudget. The cost overrun amounts to $1.6 billion and comes at a time when Brazil is facing its second year of recession.

The Brazilian Army has been fined $12,000 after it killed a jaguar. The jaguar named Juma was used in an Olympic torch relay ceremony a few weeks ago.

[03:50:01] The army killed the animal after it escaped its leash -- leash rather and lunged at a soldier. Environmental officials said the army had violated several regulations. Mexico's Football Federation has announced its 18-player squad for the Olympics. The team would be made up of largely players from its domestic league.

They are hoping to defend their gold medal from the 2012 London Games.

Mexico is in a group with Germany, one of the tournament favorites, as well as South Korea and Fiji.

Samsung is out with an Olympic Games limited edition Galaxy S7 Edge phone. More than 12,000 phones will be given to Olympic athletes. The handset features Olympic rings in the case and the interface.

All right everyone, thank you so much for watching. That was your Road to Rio update. I'm Zain Asher.

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ALLEN: In Dallas, authorities say the gunman who killed five people -- police officers when they had a deadly ambush was the lone shooter. But they want to make sure that he had no accomplices.

Seven officers, two civilians were also wounded in Thursday's attack before the gunman was killed. He's been identified as 25-year-old Micah Johnson. Authorities say he told police negotiators he was upset about recent police shootings of black men and wanted to kill white officers. Following the shooting, police found bomb-making materials, ballistic vests and ammunition at the shooter's home.

Dallas is still reeling after Thursday's deadly ambush and now its police chief must restore calm and deal with the anguish aftermath of the deadliest assault on U.S. law enforcement since the 9/11 attacks.

As Randi Kaye reports, the 30-year veteran police chief has endured several personal tragedies of his own.

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DAVID BROWN, DALLAS POLICE CHIEF: We're hurting. Our profession is hurting. Dallas officers are hurting. We are heartbroken.

RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Dallas Police Chief David Brown, heartbroken and hurting. He's been here before.

Back in 1988, one of the most violent years for police officers in his city, Brown responded to a shooting. He was only weeks into his assignment with the department's officer-involved shooting team. Immediately, he spotted a familiar pair of sunglasses at the scene and realized the officer who had been shot was his classmate from the academy, his former partner.

Brown talked about it later in this police memorial video.

BROWN: My best friend, Police Officer Walter Williams was killed in the line of duty.

KAYE: Brown's former partner, Walter Williams, had been ambushed and shot in the head. He died at the hospital.

Brown told the Dallas Morning News years ago, "I really relate to all of those in-the-line-of-duty deaths on a much more personal level. You lose a partner, you just never get over it." The pain didn't end there. Three years later in 1991, David Brown lost his younger brother to violence when he was killed by drug dealers.

This morning, after four of his officers were killed by a sniper, Chief Brown yet again felt the toll of violence.

BROWN: All I know is that this -- this must stop, this divisiveness between our police and our citizens.

KAYE: Brown has seen more than his share of tragedy, both professionally and personally. In 2010, he lost his son in a shootout with police. At the time, Brown was just seven weeks into the top job as chief. His son, also named David, had reportedly suffered a psychotic breakdown before killing a man.

[03:55:06] When a police officer responded, the chief's son killed the officer too before he was fatally shot more than a dozen times. Chief Brown released a statement to his officers telling them, "That hurts so deeply, I cannot adequately express the sadness I feel inside my heart."

Chief Brown is a 30-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. Known for being a loner, he also has a reputation for being introspective and intense, says the Dallas Morning News. Brown reportedly had plans to go to law school and become a prosecutor but police work changed all that.

In a column the chief wrote back in 2014 after Michael Brown was killed by a white Fergusson police officer, he said he was reminded of his first interview at the academy.

When he was asked why he wanted to become a police officer, his response he wrote, "I want to help people, sir. I want to serve my community. I want to make a difference."

Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.

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ALLEN: You're watching CNN Live Coverage. I'm Natalie Allen Clark in Atlanta.

HOWELL: And I'm George Howell, live in Dallas, Texas.

We will be right back with more special coverage here on CNN. The shooting aftermath here in Dallas, after this short break.

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