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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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Alton Sterling family attend Dallas rally

Sandra Sterling spoke to the media on Sunday Credit: CCTV

The family of Alton Sterling, the man killed by police in the US city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has called for justice.

Sandra Sterling, the aunt of Alton, spoke at a rally in Dallas, Texas, and told reporters: "One thing I want to say is all lives matter. We just want justice. We don't want it to get off like those other mother's sons, and the police got off there. We need justice.

"Maybe we need to change the police, maybe we need to change the policies and re-train these officers. And these things shouldn't be happening, but in reality it does."

She said her family came to Texas because "when I saw what happened here, I just had to come, let them know we do not promote violence. That had nothing to do with us".

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