Man In Armored Van Fired At Dallas PD

Site says that the guy is surrounded at least but damn. I really expected Dallas PD to have an Apache ready to go for shit like this. Hope it gets resolved quick.

A gunman attacked Police Headquarters in downtown Dallas from inside an armored van early Saturday, shooting at officers and leaving bags filled with pipe bombs around the building in a brazen assault that led to an hourslong standoff. Hours after negotiators who tried to persuade him to surrender lost contact, the man was found dead inside the van, the police said.

No officers or bystanders were killed or injured in the attack, which began outside headquarters and spread to the parking lot of a restaurant in a suburb after the gunman fled.

Officers fired at the vehicle with .50-caliber rifles and disabled it. Then, around 5 a.m., police snipers shot through the van’s windshield.

Police Chief David Brown said at a news conference that after negotiators lost contact with the suspect, they concluded that he had been fatally wounded. But police officers, fearing the van might be rigged with explosives, held off approaching the vehicle until it could be checked by a robot.

The suspect had told police negotiators that the van was rigged with C-4 explosives. Maj. Max Geron, a spokesman for the Dallas police, said investigators had found at least two more pipe bombs inside the van.

Chief Brown said the man went on a long, rambling rant accusing the police of causing him to lose his child and threatening “to blow us up.” Investigators retrieved the number and called the man to start negotiations.

The authorities have not identified a motive for the attack. Chief Brown said that although the man posted angry rants on social media threatening to kill police officers, there had been no indication that he was planning to carry out an attack.

A bag containing pipe bombs was found outside the Police Headquarters under a police vehicle and detonated as it was picked up by a robot, Chief Brown said. A suitcase that was found inside a garbage bin at another location was found not to contain explosives. The police initially said that they were investigating reports that the suspect may have gotten into the van while it was parked outside the headquarters building and that another suspect may have failed to get back in the van before it sped away. They were also looking into a report that a suspect was shooting at officers from the second floor of an apartment complex near the Police Headquarters. The police evacuated residents from that complex.

Photographs posted on Twitter by the Police Department showed bullet holes and shattered glass at the entrance of the headquarters. One explosive left under a police vehicle was detonated without injury, and a SWAT team “disabled” the armored vehicle driven by the suspects, the police said.

Full report at NY Times

I guess having a .50 cal actually paid off... Kinda wild seeing one used for exactly the right reason in the police

What's wild is that they used it to disable the vehicle only and not attempt to fill the entire car with bullets.

By reilo Go To PostWhat's wild is that they used it to disable the vehicle only and not attempt to fill the entire car with bullets.

Yeah... Despite what movies, games, and cowboys would make you think a .50 is only supposed to be used on *equipment*. Not personnel. From what I've seen so far from all of this, Dallas PD is giving a perfect example of how and when military and specialty equipment should be put to work. Shit, they even read the manual on the robot. Nobody reads the manual.

ITWAN.....