Dallas Shooter Micah Xavier Johnson Wanted To Kill More Cops

He was on a mission of hate.

One of the suspects who slaughtered five Dallas cops at an anti-police brutality protest said he was on a quest to “kill white people, especially white officers.”

The gunman — identified as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson — holed himself up in a parking garage after his Thursday night rampage. He detailed his sick conquest to mediators before he was killed by a police bomb robot, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said at a Friday morning press conference.

“He said he was upset at white people,” Brown said. “The suspect stated that he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”

Johnson, who allegedly had no criminal record or any ties to terrorism, told cops he was furious about recent police killings of black men, including the two this week for which the downtown Dallas protest was organized.

He was “upset about Black Lives Matter,” Brown said — although he stressed that he was not affiliated with the activist group and insisted that he acted alone in the shooting spree.

“We're not going to let a coward, who would ambush police officers, change our democracy," Brown said.

Police have not confirmed that Johnson was the killer.

Three more suspects — one woman and two men — are in custody following the Thursday night rampage. It's not clear what roles they played in the mid-protest massacre.

The shooting broke out around 9 p.m. Thursday night while hundreds of people were gathered downtown to protest fatal police shootings this week in Baton Rouge, La., and suburban St. Paul, Minn.

The snipers fired on the officers “ambush style,” Brown said early Friday morning. By the end of the carnage, 14 people were shot: 12 officers and 2 civilians, police said.

Police began a manhunt for the suspects throughout downtown, an area of hotels, restaurants, businesses and some residential apartments. The area is about two blocks away from Dealey Plaza — where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

Three people were detained shortly after the killings. The fourth, Johnson, was killed by a police explosive after he refused to comply with police orders amid the lengthy negotiations, Brown said.

“We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot,” Brown said. “Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger.”

Earlier reports that suggested Johnson killed himself were false, Brown said.

The attacks made Thursday the deadliest day in U.S. law enforcement history since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when 72 officers died, according to The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, which tracks on-duty officer deaths.

Four of the officers who were killed were with the Dallas Police Department, a spokesman said. One was a Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer. The agency said in a statement that 43-year-old officer Brent Thompson was the first officer killed in the line of duty since the agency formed a police department in 1989.

The eight injured officers included three DART cops: 32-year-old Misty McBride, 44-year-old Omar Cannon and 39-year-old Jesus Retana. All three are expected to survive. The names and conditions of the other five injured cops have not been released.

On top of the cop shootings, two civilians were wounded in the massacre. Shetamia Taylor, a 37-year-old mom of four, was shot while she attended the rally with her kids, her sister said.

The identity of the other civilian casualty was not immediately known. Mayor Mike Rawlings said he did not believe either had life-threatening injuries.

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