Johnson: Shootings aren’t representative of anti-police brutality movement

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday that the shootings in Dallas that left five police officers dead are not reflective of movements like Black Lives Matter.

{mosads}”At a time like this when tensions are high, in the wake of events in Dallas and Baton Rouge and Minnesota and elsewhere, it’s important to remember that just as the shooter on Thursday night is not reflective of the broader movement to bring about change in police practices that any police officer who engages in excessive force is not representative of the larger law enforcement community, which with increasing frequency, reflects the community at large,” Johnson said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Officer-involved shooting deaths of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota spurred protests all over the country last week, including one in Dallas, where five police officers were shot and killed by a sniper Thursday night and seven were injured. 

Johnson has said the shooter in Dallas acted alone. 

“Everything we know about this individual is being investigated, uncovered, and I suspect we are going to know a lot more in a couple days. It does appear that he was a single shooter, the lone shooter,” Johnson told “Fox News Sunday.”

“We do not see any affiliation with any international terrorist organization like ISIL or al Qaeda, but the investigation does continue,” he added, using the administration’s preferred acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).