The Army veteran who gunned down five Dallas police officers Thursday
evening subscribed to updates from black nationalist groups on social
media and had been sent home from Afghanistan following a sexual
harassment allegation.
Micah X. Johnson, 25, shot 14 people, including 12
officers, at the end of an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas. He
was killed early Friday after authorities sent a bomb-wielding police
robot to infiltrate the parking garage where Johnson was holed up.
Beginning in 2009, Johnson served in the Army Reserve
as a private first class with a specialty in carpentry and masonry, the
military said.
In May 2014, six months into his Afghanistan tour, he
was accused of sexual harassment by a female soldier. The Army sent him
stateside, recommending an “other than honorable discharge,” said
Bradford Glendening, the military lawyer who represented him.