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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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Second Dallas shooting victim named as Michael Krol

Michael Krol Credit: Wayne Sheriff's County

The second Dallas shooting victim has been named as Michael Krol.

Mr Krol, from Michigan, was one of the police officers shot during the Black Lives Matter protest.

He joined the Dallas Police Department in 2007 and had previously worked in the Wayne County Sheriff's Office jails from 2003.

"We are saddened by the loss of the dedicated officers in Dallas - one of whom was a former member of this agency - and also the wounding of the other officers," Sheriff Benny Napoleon said in a statement.

The first officer identified who was killed was Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer Brent Thompson.

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