Four Dallas law enforcement officers have been shot dead by two snipers during protests against the shooting of black men Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana by the police, the officials say.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown  said in a statement that, the snipers shot 11 officials, four of them were killed. He described the shootings as "ambush style."

"We believe that these suspects were positioning themselves in a way to triangulate on these officers from two different perches and planned to injure and kill as many law enforcement officers as they could," David Brown said.

"An intensive search for suspects is currently underway," Brown said.

One of the march's organizers, Reverend Jeff Hood, said that, "I ran away from the shots trying to get people off the streets and I was grabbing myself to see if I was shot."

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, said that, "Would this have happened if the driver and the passengers were white? I don't think it would have."

 

"So I'm forced to confront that this kind of racism exists, and it's incumbent upon all of us to vow and ensure that it doesn't happen and doesn't continue to happen," he said.

US President Barack Obama described the killings as tragedies. "All of us as Americans should be troubled by these shootings, because these are not isolated incidents. They're symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system."

A protester, retail worker Tanya McDonald, 28, said that, "What gets me is how many people are failing to see that this is happening almost every day. We're dying, we're being killed off by people hiding behind a badge and no one's doing anything to stop it."

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