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Live updates: Dallas protest shooting

Five police officers have been killed after they were shot in Dallas during a Black Lives Matter protest.

Here's what we know so far:

  • Five police officers died and seven were wounded
  • The suspect, Micah Johnson, was killed in a stand-off with police
  • He allegedly said he wanted to kill white police officers
  • The atrocity follows the fatal police shootings of two black men
  • Bomb-making materials, guns and a bullet proof vest were found at Johnson's home
  • Barack Obama condemned the attack as "vicious, calculated and despicable"
  • The US president will visit the scene next week
  • Dallas Police 'received a new threat' against law enforcement on Saturday
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Clinton: White people must listen to grievances of black Americans

Hillary Clinton Credit: Reuters

White people need to listen to the legitimate grievances of black Americans, Hillary Clinton has said.

The presumptive Democrat presidential candidate said "too many" African Americans have been killed in encounters with police.

She added: "America has to do more to bring police and the communities they protect together."

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