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On 3 July 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to 2016 murders of Dallas police officers. The result of the discussion was not moved.

2015 attack on Dallas police was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 14 March 2024 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers on 14 March 2024. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Change Motive to read: Anger about recent police shootings of African Americans. Including racial hatred is incorrect information. 2601:140:8C00:52E0:482:CE34:93E9:FCA4 (talk) 12:52, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. — Tartan357 ^(Talk) 15:05, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The current "Motive Backlash to police brutality,..." is a poor choice. Neither of the encounters described at such length (particularly excessive as the first part of this article) involved actual police brutality. "Anger at police killings of Black men" or similar (see the edit described at the beginning of this section) would be better as it does not adopt an arguable characterization of those events in Wikipedia's voice. What did Johnson actually say or write, if anything? Andyvphil (talk) 20:02, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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School shooting

Re this edit: per MOS:SEEALSO I don't think that this incident really qualifies as a school shooting. Johnson did not set out to kill anyone related to a school, and apart from the standoff on a campus, it has nothing to do with a school. This is stretching the definition of a school shooting as it is too tangential. ♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:41, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]