Dallas suspect ‘taunted’ police during negotiations

The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing, and at one point asking how many officers he had shot, the city’s police chief has revealed.
Dallas suspect ‘taunted’ police during negotiations

Micah Johnson, a black Army veteran, insisted on speaking with a black negotiator and wrote in blood on the wall of a parking garage where police cornered and later killed him, David Brown told CNN’s State Of The Union.

Investigators are now trying to decipher the writing by looking through evidence from his suburban Dallas home, Brown said.

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