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Special Coverage Of Deadly Ambush on Dallas Law Enforcement; Clinton and Trump Respond To Dallas Shootings; Protestors Simultaneously Chanting 'Black Lives Matter' While Denouncing Police Slayings In Dallas; Road To Rio Update. Aired 5-6a ET

Aired July 09, 2016 - 05:00   ET

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[05:00:15] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Natalie Allen live from CNN Center Atlanta.

GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm George Howell following the after the aftermath of the targeted attacks on police officers here in Dallas, Texas.

We're right here at Dallas police headquarters. You see behind me this police car that is set up, there's another for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit, DART, as it's known here in the city. And behind me, there are balloons, there are flowers, there are candles this night here in Dallas, and many messages honoring these officers who died in the line of duty.

I also want to show you another image. We have another camera that's pointed toward the skyline. I want you to look at that image because a building that is typically lit up in green, that's the tallest building here in Dallas, the Bank of America Plaza lit up in blue this night showing solidarity for these officers who were killed.

Seven other officers were wounded when a sniper opened fire on a peaceful protest Thursday night. Two civilians were also wounded. Authorities believed that the gunman, 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, a former U.S. army reservist that he was the lone gunman. They say that they had written a number of manifestos on how to shoot and how to keep moving, which they say is exactly what he did during that horrific attack.

We're also seeing protests that spread across the United States this day. Officers in Phoenix, Arizona, they arrested three people who they say had thrown rocks at them. Police fired pepper balls at protesters there to break up the crowd. At least six of those protesters were injured.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's above and beyond out of control unless someone's up there doing something, they should not have pepper sprayed anybody. They pepper sprayed children. There were little children asking for water over here on the side because they were maced in the face. Now, if you have to go as far as pepper spraying children, you're the problem.

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HOWELL: Keep in mind, you have to remember that these protests were sparked by the deaths of two African-American men in Louisiana and in the State of Minnesota, protests that we've seen play out throughout the United States.

The mass shooting in Dallas, it was the deadliest day for U.S. Law Enforcement since the September 11th terror attacks in 2001.

A memorial is growing for the slain officers. It's been growing for many, many hours now.

Ed Lavandara has more now on the vigil held for them and some new information about the sniper.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just outside the Dallas Police Department headquarters, a vigil and emotional scene. This vigil has been growing steadily throughout the day. People coming leaving flowers on the police cars and notes of condolences to the fallen officers as well as those that were wounded and the police force here in Dallas that essentially has been shaken to its core. All of these while the investigative work continues.

There have been officers there at the crime scene on the street the Downtown, Dallas piecing together evidence. And we also know that those officers have been trying to retrace the steps that the killer Micah Johnson followed in his attack that ended with the killings of the five police officers here Thursday night in Dallas.

We also know that investigators including Federal Law Enforcement investigators have been at the home of Micah Johnson where neighbors tell us he lived with his mother. That is where authorities tell us, they discovered weapons, ammunitions, bomb-making material as well as a journal that carried -- wrote a lot about combat tactics when detectives are pouring through that journal to get more into the mind of this killer.

So, all of that going on tonight here as the city mourns. Ed Lavandera, CNN Dallas.

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HOWELL: Ed, thank you. And again that memorial, we've just seen so many people hour after hour come by to bring, you know, these messages of remembrance to these officers.

Natalie, we'll send it back to you.

ALLEN: Very, very touching backdrop you have there, George. Thank you.

Well, U.S. President Obama will visit Dallas early next week to pay respect to the fallen officers.

CNN's Stephanie Elam has more on how these terrifying events at Thursday night unfolded.

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STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: New 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: No, 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 that damn building right there!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Assist officer. Shots fired. Code three. Stay off the radio. Officer down.

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[05:05:07] 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.

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DAVID BROWN, CHIEF OF DALLAS POLICE: This was a well planned, well thought-out, evil tragedy by the suspect.

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ELAM: Police are now revealing what Johnson told negotiators during the lengthy standoff.

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BROWN: He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wants to the kill white people, especially white officers.

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

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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 our officers to great danger.

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ELAM: President Obama, addressing the shooting from Poland.

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BARRACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT US: There has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement. Police in Dallas were on duty during -- doing their jobs, keeping people safe during peaceful protests.

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ALLEN: The protesters and others in the U.S. are saying there is a police problem in many parts of the country.

CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Cedric Alexander joins us now. And you're not only a police officer who has a master's degree in Psychology and you're the person to talk to about this.

First of all, let's separate out what happened in Dallas? You were here with us last night. We still didn't know who had done this.

I, all day long have just been sharing beautiful outpourings of support for the Dallas police and people hugging them and such so that -- it was a terrible thing that happened. But we always come together after these things. But there is another thing and another thing it seems.

So, where in the system is the issue? And where is the thing that might start to curtail the problem we have with trust in the black community and officers?

CEDRIC ALEXANDER, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Well, historically, it has been a challenge between communities of color and police in the United States, that's a historical fact. But we also have to keep in mind over the years, there has also been incredible progress.

And in that progress sometimes when you have events that take place like what we saw in Baton Rouge, what we saw in Minnesota, throws us back. And we get into this mindset, here we go again.

But, quite frankly, we have to wait for those investigations to be completely conducted to really know when you put all the pieces together what happened.

But on what we see on that video, it affects us. And it brings up old feelings. It creates, opens new wounds, if you will, but a relationship between a police department and its community is something that is ongoing.

There is no end point to it. You're constantly developing and nurturing that relationship so that when you do have negative event that take place in your community, you are in a much better place to be able to sit down, talk through it, work through it, do what's necessary for the appropriate investigation to take place and support each other. Because at the end of the day, regardless of what happens, no community can exist without public safety. And public safety cannot operate, function, be productive without the support of its community.

ALLEN: And you can't say enough about the community and the officers working together because it cannot be an us versus them mindset...

ALEXANDER: Right.

ALLEN: ... in this world where now police officers have to deal with the fact they don't know who has guns and who doesn't because it's legal.

ALEXANDER: Right.

ALLEN: And that causes a lot of tension.

I do want to point out something that Barack Obama said from Europe. He said this -- the culture is still stuck against African-Americans, 30 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over. African Americans and Hispanics, three times more likely to be searched, 75percent more likely to be charged with offenses carrying mandatory minimums. Because it's not just out on the street, it's in the criminal justice system as well.

ALEXANDER: Well, we know in a much broader criminal justice system there's some questions that are being asked and things that are being challenged. And that's what the president is responding to.

[05:10:02] But quite often, what happen, police departments, police officers across this country are the first responders, were the most- visible, were the ones that you can reach out in touch whether the experience is good or bad.

Police at the end of the day always going to be in that position of being easily assessable if you will, easy to target in regards to complaints. But do we have a broader larger criminal justice that has systemically created some disparities. That's what the president is speaking to and those are the things that we have to look at and try to fix going forward.

ALLEN: When you talk about, yes, we have to investigate these two incidents, you know, a video of something as we all know, it just -- it does enflame people to see something happening and everyone's got a video now.

But as far as the relationship with the community and the black community is are we -- is a situation you talk about, the games and the made, it's as though -- it seems like it's always two steps forward, one step back.

ALEXANDER: That's constant and that is constant. We're dealing with human beings. We're dealing with people. We're dealing with a society, American culture that is still working its way through a lot of its new issues and old issues in this country.

But here's the thing, we cannot give up even though we make progress going forward, something happens. We feel like we get knocked down. As a community, as a nation, we got to dust -- get up, dust ourselves off and get back in the fight, because there's a lot of wonderful communities and a lot of great police departments across this country that are doing good things. But the mere nature of the job of policing presents unusual challenges.

ALLEN: Absolutely.

ALEXANDER: And sometimes things we cannot predict or practice or rehearse for. But what's critically important here is that we have the ability to assess, own what we need to do different, both police and community as ownership. And then figure out how we move forward so we can advance public safety in the 21st century. And so that we can continue to create an environment, not just for ourselves but for our children, our children's children in which we can grow and prosper and even become a greater nation than what we are presently today.

ALLEN: Because we are better than this. At some level, we are.

ALEXANDER: That's right. That's right.

ALLEN: We have a big issue.

ALEXANDER: That's correct.

ALLEN: Cedric Alexander, as always, thank you.

ALEXANDER: Thank you.

ALLEN: The U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are reacting to the shootings in Dallas.

We'll tell you what they've been saying on the campaign trail about it next here. Plus, we will bring you more of the latest headlines, including a look at North Korea's latest attempt to launch a ballistic missile from a submarine.

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[05:15:25] HOWELL: Welcome back to Dallas, Texas, a day after the deadly attack targeting police officers in this city. Investigators are still trying to determine if the gunman had any accomplices.

Officials say the 25-year-old gunman, Micah Xavier Johnson, that he acted alone but they are following every possible lead in that investigation.

The former U.S. army reservist opened fire on police while they were managing a peaceful protest here in Dallas. The attack killed five officers and wounded seven others and two civilians are also injured.

During that standoff that lasted for hours in Downtown, Dallas, Johnson told police negotiators that he was angry about police killings of African-American in Louisiana and Minnesota. He was killed by a police explosive device after negotiations broke down.

The mass shooting here in Dallas, Texas and the killing of two African-American men by police that came before has drawn responses from the U.S. presidential candidates. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump tied the killings of five officers in Dallas to the economy. Listen.

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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Too many Americans are living in terrible poverty and violence. We need jobs and we're going to produce those jobs.

Racial divisions have gotten worse, not better. Too many headlines flash across our screens everyday about the rising crime and rising death tolls in our cities.

Now is the time for prayers, love, unity, and leadership.

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HOWELL: On the democratic side, the presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton called for new guidelines in the wake the shooting.

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HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: We must do more to have national guidelines about the use of force by police, especially deadly force. We need to do more to look into implicit bias and we need to do more to respect and protect our police.

Look at what happened in Dallas. Those police officers were protecting a peaceful protest, a protest of authority. That is a hallmark of America.

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HOWELL: The presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaking to us there. So certainly, Natalie, we're starting to hear reaction from, you know, all the candidates that are running for president and certainly this city continues to mourn the loss of these five officers.

ALLEN: Yes, George, and I am certainly sure we're going to hear about it at the conventions too, coming up here in just a few weeks. Thank you.

U.S. President Obama will shorten the span of spend of his European trip and travel to Dallas early next week. Mr. Obama is in Poland right now for a NATO meeting. The President said on Friday the U.S. was, quote, "horrified" what he called a vicious, calculated and despicable act on law enforcement in Dallas.

North Korea has launched a ballistic missile from a submarine. This information coming from the South Korean Military, it says, a missile was launched in the sea southeast of Sinpo City in Eastern North Korea. The U.S. also says, it tracked the presumed North Korean submarine launched missile as well.

For more about what we know about this latest move by Pyongyang, we go to our Matt Rivers there in Seoul. This isn't the first time they've tried this. Do we know if it was successful, Matt?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, according to defense officials here in South Korea, this was not a successful test. This launch happened around 11:30 a.m., local time as you mentioned just off the coast of the eastern portion of North Korea.

An official say that it didn't work, that it was an unsuccessful test. They wouldn't comment any further to us on that. But local media here in South Korea is reporting that the missile while it left the submarine successfully and managed to reach about 10 kilometers into the air, while only after going forward, a few kilometers, it actually exploded in the air, breaking up, of course making it unsuccessful test.

And this is the second unsuccessful test of a missile launched from a submarine this year for North Korea. It was back in April that a similar test was conducted. That missile only managed to go about 30 kilometers or so before it too failed.

And those two tests, frankly, are part of a year that's seemed provocation after provocation from North Korea. In terms of those two missile tests, there have been other types of missiles tested. And of course the biggest one of them all would be testing of a nuclear device back in January. So, a very busy year for Pyongyang and, of course, that means a busy year for those countries that have to respond like here in South Korea and of course the United States.

[05:20:10] ALLEN: Matt Rivers for us there in Seoul. Matt, thank you.

The news of the Dallas shooting may have become the focus for Mr. Obama as we mentioned but at that NATO Summit in Poland, leaders are discussing topics like Russia, the impact of brexit on the NATO alliance.

For more, our Nic Robertson is covering it for us. He joins me now from Warsaw. And I was interested to know what David Cameron is saying about his country's allegiance to NATO at these confusing times, to say the least, with the brexit, Nic.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yeah, well, Britain is a large financial contributor towards NATO. About a quarter of NATO's financial commitment comes from Britain. Britain is one of the first of the 28 of the NATO alliance, countries to contribute what's now required 2% of GDP towards defense spending, 20% of that going on equipment of advanced equipment, if you will, rather than just spending it all on beefing up troop numbers.

So, Britain has a significant commitment. David -- British Prime Minister David Cameron has reaffirmed that commitment. There have been commitments reconfirmed all around between the E.U. and Britain to work together positively, openly, transparently as the brexit is negotiating, when that actually -- when if not achieved triggers that. But also between NATO and the European Union to work more closely together on defense issues and political issues as well, but also between the United States and the European Union as well.

You know, everyone here is trying to present a picture of unity and solidarity on a number of fronts in the south on the sort of the challenge of ISIS and ISIS trying to sort of infiltrate through the migrants that are coming across the Mediterranean, either a recruit troop from the Aegean, from Syria, or from North Africa.

So, focus on NATO working with the European Union on how to tackle that, but also the focus on the eastern borders with Russia and the sense that Russia is building up forces there, is reinforcing key instant military installations along the length of that border. And also as Annexation of Crimean influence coming across the border into Ukrain as well, that all the concern here.

So, the essence says there is a presented face of unity but nevertheless, there is a disparity of use of how best to tackle about Russian aggression. You hear some German politicians, some others Italians you may hear as well. Their express perhaps NATO is being to, if you will, you know, if you will, sort of presenting too much of a military front. Its escalation, its training of forces this summer in the east of Europe, these exercises that it was performing perhaps not the right message to send to Russian of this time but nevertheless, the dominant view that it has to be a strong military signal to Russia that NATO is ready to defend any of its 28 members and of course it's the Baltic states that worry the most, Natalie.

ALLEN: Yes, Nic. And the other issue, of course, is the confusion over having Russia in the mix there in the Syrian war because that's certainly a new day.

ROBERTSON: Yeah, it changes the dynamic in a way. I mean, you have the tension obviously that escalated several months ago when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet as it approached and came in to Turkey's air space, Turkey officials said, which really put NATO, all NATO nations at odds with Russia and Turkey is rebuilding and rekindling its relationship with Russia.

But, what you're seeing or what NATO sees Russia doing in Syria right now is sort of bolstering its combined missile defend systems as they're allowing missile defend systems right there in the south along NATO's border, the same way that it is in Kaliningrad in the Baltic, in the middle of the Baltic states in the north. And so that raises the specter of concern about Russia even further, Natalie.

ALLEN: Nic Robertson covering for us there in Poland. Nic, thank you as always. We had a little video of David Cameron, Barack Obama in a very close discussion there. Maybe we can read their lips and figure out what they're talking about later. Thank you, Nic.

Well, we're going to turn now to a storm that has been some deadly ferocious winds flooding massive waves all accompanying a typhoon as it struck Southern Taiwan early Friday morning.

Now, it's headed towards southeast China but, as a much weaker storm. Derek Van Dam, though, is here to tell us more about it, Derek.

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You know, Natalie the worse of the storm certainly over with but not before leaving scenes like this.

[05:25:03] Check out the moment the eye wall reached Southern Taiwan, local time, Friday morning about 6:30. And you can see, just lawn ornaments and chairs and property just being strewn across the landscape, a lot of felled trees in the roadways, and downed power lines. It's interrupted public transportation, cancelling international and domestic flights in and out of Taiwan.

Now, take a look at this image and the result of that wind was tossing motorcycles and vehicles like toys, thanks to winds in excess of 150 miles per hour, locally, 240 kilometers her hour. Now, this is an invisible satellite loop. And look just how well defined that eye was. Again, this was 24 hours ago, just before it made landfall into southern sections of Taiwan as a super typhoon.

But remember, Taiwan is an extremely mountainous area. In fact, it's got the highest condensed area of mountains, over 3,000 meters in the world. So that basically just took that storm, broke it apart. And this is what's left, a very unorganized area of circulation, 65 kilometer per hour sustained winds. That's actually dropped just within the past 15 or 20 minutes from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

Nonetheless, the threat going forward will be the heavy rainfall and the potential for flooding and landslides across the Fujian Province into Southeastern China.

Look at this, though, rainfall totals into parts of Taiwan over 550 millimeters so that is 22 inches of rain, very short period of time. That's why they saw fogging in that area. More rain in store. But the good news out of all this is that the rainfall we saw over the past 10 days, just to the west of Shanghai that caused the extreme flooding across that area, we've been covering that here in the CNN International World Weather Center, the good news is that the rainfall from this dissipating typhoon will not move into that particular region, exasperating the flooding potential there.

However, Fujian Province, that's the area that we need to be concerned about. It is a very populated area.

And by the way, Natalie, we have had 19 category, 4 or 5 typhoons reached within the past 75 years.

ALLEN: That's enough.

VAN DAM: That's enough, more than enough, absolutely.

ALLEN: OK, thank you, Derek.

Well, supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are condemning the deadly ambush on police officers in Dallas. They say it's a tragedy that affects the entire nation. We'll take a closer look at the movement and its impact coming next here.

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[05:31:00] HOWELL: Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Our special coverage live in Dallas, Texas of the targeted police shootings that played out on these streets, a day after it all happened. And we are learning more about this act of domestic terror that killed five police officers and wounded seven on Thursday.

The mayor of Dallas saying that the gunman, 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, that he acted alone. Officials say that he was armed with at least two weapons. When he open fired on polices, protesters marched peacefully through these streets.

During a standoff that went on for hours, Johnson told police negotiators that he was infuriated by the deaths of African-American men at the hands of police officers and that he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. When negotiations failed, police used a bomb delivered by a robot to kill him.

Keep in mind, we've seen protests. Protests that began this week after two African-American men were killed by police officers in the states of Louisiana and Minnesota. The fiancee of Philando Castile captured those moments. After his shooting on Wednesday, on the suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, a live Facebook video post that many people saw on social media. She says that a police officer shot Castile after pulling him over for a broken taillight, and when he reached for his wallet after being asked for identification. Castile's mother Valerie says she just does not understand why this happened.

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VALERIE CASTILE, MOTHER OF PHILANDO CASTILE: I did everything right as a parent. I made sure my kids understood the difference in being law-abiding and that the police were there to help. I never once in my life would have thought that my son would actually be killed by a person that was supposed to protect and serve him.

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HOWELL: Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana shot Alton Sterling several tiles 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 my league Don Lemon. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

QUINYETTA MCMILLON, MOTHER OF ALTON STERLING'S SON: It's unbearable pain and 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 OK. We have to stay together. We have as to pray together and honestly, that's what's been keeping me and Cameron focused, with the help of my family as well.

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HOWELL: Protesters have been chanting Black Lives Matter but also condemning the attack that took the lives of five officers. Our Randi Kaye has more on the moment that began with a simple hashtag.

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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What started with a hashtag has turned into a rallying cry. The goal, to shine a light on racial injustice.

MICHAELA ANGELA DAVIS, CULTURAL CRITIC AND WRITER: This is a generation that wants to dismantle structural racism. This is the generation that wants to get at the core of it. It wants to get at the systemic problem.

KAYE: The Black Lives Matter movement was born after the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, when his killer, neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was cleared of any wrongdoing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We, the jury, find George Zimmerman not guilty.

KAYE: After Trayvon, the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police gave rise to more voices of protests. There was Eric Garner in New York.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Eric Garner, Michael Brown.

KAYE: And Michael Brown in Ferguson, where the movement really began to take hold.

[05:35:07] OPAL TOMETI, CO-FOUNDER OF BLACK LIVES MATTER: The people, the local neighborhood in Ferguson were willing to call attention to the issues, right? They were willing to put their lives on the line for Michael Brown and for their own future.

KAYE: Then, 12-year-old Tamir Rice who only had a pellet gun was killed by police in Cleveland.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The young man pulled a weapon out and that's when the officer fired.

KAYE: Activists say the list goes on, Tony Robinson, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray. In most incidents, the officers were not indicted, fueling the anger and amping up the message.

ASHLEY SHARPTON, MARCH PARTICIPANT: They need to take care of our country. The police are supposed to protect us and they need to make sure that they ensure that.

KAYE: There are now dozens of Black Lives Matter chapters across the United States. And while some believe the movement has actually incited violence and worsened race relations, its founders disagree.

TOMETI: The reality is this is a peaceful human rights movement led by incredibly courageous black people. I think we're demanding justice and freedom for our people.

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HOWELL: Also, the response on Capitol Hill, members of the Black Congressional Caucus, they held a press conference on Friday reacting to the police shootings here in Dallas.

When U.S. House Democrat Marc Veasey spoke, he became emotional, voicing his concerns about his 10-year-old son's potential interactions with police as he gets older.

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MARC VEASEY, U.S. HOUSE DEMOCRAT: And yesterday, we had a press event to talk about what happened in Louisiana and to talk about what happened in Minnesota. I got to tell you, I have a 10-year-old son.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take your time. Take your time.

VEASEY: He seems more like his mom. He looks like both of us but more like his mom. And right now, he's a cute 5th grader, he's going into the 5th grade, he's a cute 5th grader. But I worry about him when he gets older, when he gets into high school, what if he's out with some friends and he smarts off the wrong way?

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HOWELL: A father concerned about his son, it's understandable. It is a real conversation that is being had in many homes in America.

We'll be back live from Dallas, Texas, in just a moment.

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[05:41:09] HOWELL: Welcome back. The United States' residents certainly throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex all mourning the loss of five officers killed in the line of duty. This happened just less than a mile from where we're standing right here at the Dallas Police Headquarters in this memorial that continues to grow and grow.

Authorities say that 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, that he was the only shooter. They say that he was upset by the killings of African- American men at the hands of officers. During a standoff that went on for several hours, he continued shooting at police until they used an explosive to kill him.

Brandon Hester was at that protest in Dallas Thursday night and saw the first police officer being gunned down. He caught that scene on video that was obtained exclusively by CNN. And we'll show you that image here.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get down, get down!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get down Anderson. Get down. Leave him. Get down.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, we're not to fire off.

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HOWELL: That, obviously, a very tense situation, those officers putting their lives on the line in that. Hester spoke earlier with CNN'S don lemon. With that, he said they ran into a parking garage to take cover and the shots just kept coming.

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BRANDON HESTER, EYEWITNESS TO DALLAS AMBUSH: What I seen is -- can never really just be taken out of my mind. I will never forget that for the rest of my life. When the shots first like start coming, I seen like literally an officer fall. I guess, I don't know if he's the first officer to fall, but he fell like right there and that's when I ran and tried to take cover, but I guess I ran the wrong way, because nobody really knew where the shots were coming from when they first start coming.

So, I mean, I just ran like anybody else would. And by that time, like my friends had all ran every which way, like everybody just kind of scattered. And I end up, I guess, running to the wrong place.

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HOWELL: And Natalie, you know, you and I were on set just the other as all of this played out and that very differently moment, where we learned that, indeed, it was not four but five officers who are killed in the line of duty. But to be here and, you know, to hear from people about what they saw, what they heard, and how they ran for their lives, you know, trying to get away as these bullets were flying. It's, you know, something that you don't forget.

ALLEN: Just listening to it on the air last night, I've never heard gunfire like that loud and rapid -- it came so rapidly. And I can imagine the people that were there right in front of it, my goodness. Thank you, George.

While anger boils over in the U.S. over police shootings and race relations, we'll look back at a violent week at a divided nation, the United States struggles to unite.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [05:46:15] ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: Hello everyone 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 over budget. 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. A jaguar named Juma was used in an Olympic Torch Relay ceremony a few weeks ago. The army killed the animal after it escaped -- it leashed 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 will be made up of largely players from its domestic league. They're hoping to defend their gold medal from the 2012 London games. Mexico is in a group with Germany, one of the tournament favorite 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 hands that features Olympic Rings and 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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HOWELL: Welcome back to CNN's special coverage live in Dallas, Texas. I'm George Howell.

I want to give you a little context about a week that has no doubt been a tough week here in the United States. The police-involved shootings of two African-American men led to protests. Then, there was this, the death of five police officers killed in the line of duty.

My colleague Victor Blackwell has more on the week that was and we do warn you, some of the images you will see in Victor's report are graphic.

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VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Three consecutive days of violence, sending shock waves through the nation. Tuesday morning, police are called to the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for a report of a man with a gun.

Officers Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni tackled 37-year-old Alton Sterling to the ground. And after a brief scuffle, Sterling is shot several times. Graphic video of the incident caught on bystanders' cell phones.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's got a gun. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You -- move, I swear to God.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get on the ground. Be careful, man. Shot fired. Shot fired.

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BLACKWELL: The video is shared widely across social media, sparking local protests and drawing national attention. Sterling's 15-year-old son openly weeping during a press conference the next day.

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[05:50:07] CAMERON STERLING, SON OF ALTON STERLING: I want my daddy.

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BLACKWELL: Sterling's family demanding justice.

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MCMILLON: I say again, I, for one, will not rest and will not allow you all to sweep him in the dirt, until adequate punishment is served to all parties involved.

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BLACKWELL: The investigation now in the hands of the Department of Justice.

Wednesday night, 32-year-old Philando Castile is shot and killed during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. His girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds live streams the aftermath of the shooting on Facebook.

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DIAMOND REYNOLDS, FIANCEE OF PHILANDO CASTILE: Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back and the police. He's covered. He killed my boyfriend. He's licensed -- he's carried -- he's licensed to carry.

He was trying to get out his I.D. in his wallet out of his pocket. And he let the officer know that he was -- he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet, and the officer just shot him in his arm. We're waiting for backup.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ma'am, put your hands off the wheel.

REYNOLDS: I will sir, no worries. He just shot his arm off. We got pulled over on Larpenteur.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand open.

REYNOLDS: You told him to get his I.D. sir, his driver's license. Oh my god, please don't tell me he's dead. Please don't tell me my boyfriend just went like that.

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BLACKWELL: His family saying he was targeted because he was black.

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CASTILE: I think he was black in the wrong place.

REYNOLDS: We didn't do anything.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We know.

REYNOLDS: We put our hands in the air. We knew our rights. We followed procedure.

CASTILE: He's not a gangbanger. He's not a thug. He's very respectable. And I know he didn't antagonize that officer in any way to make him feel like his life was in danger.

REYNOLDS: He (inaudible). Not one shot, not two shots, not three, not four, but five shots.

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BLACKWELL: Even the state's governor questioning whether this incident was racially motivated.

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MARK DAYTON, MINNESOTA GOVERNOR: Would this have happened if those passengers -- drivers or passengers were white? I don't think it would have.

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BLACKWELL: President Obama addressing the shootings of both men as protests breakout nationwide.

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BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: When incidents like this occur, there's a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same. And that hurts. And that should trouble all of us

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BLACKWELL: Thursday, as hundreds of people take to the streets to protest the violence, chaos erupts. A gunman begins firing into the crowd, targeting police officers.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's four cops down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Four?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, he shot, five -- seven times.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a dude?

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BLACKWELL: The chaos captured on police scanners.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Assist officer. Shots fired. Code three. Stay off the radio. Officer down.

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

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Parking garage!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Slow down! He's in the damn building right there! Don't know where he's at. He's in that building right there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're hearing shots from that building.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 169, we've got to get emergency (ph) right now.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're on our way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- in El Centro College building

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Suspect is inside the El Centro building, inside the El Centro building.

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BLACKWELL: In the end, 12 officers are shot. Five of them are killed. It is the single deadliest day for law enforcement since 9/11.

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BROWN: There are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city. All I know is that this must stop, this divisiveness between our police and our citizens. We don't feel much support, most days. Let's not make today most days. Please, we need your support.

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BLACKWELL: Police identified the gunman as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson. The Dallas police chief saying Johnson told them he was upset about the recent police shootings and that he wanted to kill white people especially white officers. And that he acted alone. After several hours of negotiation he's killed by a police bomb robot. President Obama calling the shooting a vicious, calculated, and despicable attack on law enforcement and ordering flags at public buildings around the country flown at half-staff.

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[05:55:09] LORETTA LYNCH, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: This has been a week of profound grief and heartbreaking loss.

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BLACKWELL: Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaking Friday, urging Americans to move forward together.

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LYNCH: To all Americans, I ask you, I implore you, do not let this week precipitate a new normal in this country. I ask you to turn to each other not against each other as we move forward.

Let us support one another. Let us help heal one another. And I urge you to remember, today and everyday, that we are one nation. We are one people and we stand together.

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BLACKWELL: Victor Blackwell, CNN, Dallas.

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HOWELL: It is fair to say that, you know, for many Americans, this week has been a week of heartbreak. That word really sums it up. You know, heartbreak, seeing the video of these two African-American men killed by, you know, police-involved shootings, investigations under way there, a heartbreak for these officers, five police officers who went in to do their jobs and, you know, didn't return home the next day.

Texas is home for me. And, you know, one good thing that I've seen is, you know, people are having conversations. Sometimes difficult conversations, seeing, you know, things differently but trying to see eye-to-eye and, you know, that maybe at least the silver lining.

ALLEN: George, just a key, we've got to start talking. We've got to stop fearing and start talking.

Just a quick -- I was going to tell a story. We're out of time. I'll tell you later, George.

Thank you, guys, for watching us. I'm Natalie Allen in Atlanta. For my colleague George Howell, viewers in the U.S., Victor Blackwell picks it up.

Up next in Atlanta, Amanpour is next as well for our international viewers.

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