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DALLAS, (APP/AFP) – The Dallas gunman was
plotting a major bomb attack, authorities said, urging calm as hundreds of people were arrested in weekend protests in US cities over police violence against African-Americans.
Demonstrators marched demanding justice for two black men shot dead
by cops in Minnesota and Louisiana, their dying moments captured in video that went viral online.
Peaceful marches attracted large crowds in major US cities, but
became especially unruly in St. Paul, Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where police killed the two men.
Scores of people were arrested in both cities on Saturday and Sunday.
The demos come days after black army Afghan war veteran Micah
Johnson, 25, used a high-powered rifle to kill five police officers and wound seven in a sniper attack at a protest in Dallas, Texas late Thursday.
Johnson said before he was killed that he wanted to murder white cops
in revenge for the black deaths.
Seeking to restore calm, President Barack Obama, scheduled to speak
in Dallas at an inter-faith memorial service Tuesday, cautioned protesters against casting all police as racially biased.
The Dallas community’s “unity is reflective of who we are as
Americans” during these trying times, said Obama, speaking Sunday in Madrid.
The president, who cut short his European visit, will meet privately
in Texas with the families of the five fallen police officers and those wounded