By Eric Aasen, KERA NEWS
KERA intern Javier Giribet was at the scene of the march through downtown Dallas, talking with demonstrators, when the shootings happened. He recorded his thoughts afterward and sent them along.
Around 7 pm Thursday night (July 7), nearly 1,000 people showed up to Belo Garden Park in downtown Dallas. They were part of a protest organized by Black Lives Matters Dallas, to protest the recent fatal police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota. The people that showed up rallied and then marched heading down on Commerce Street.
“…At 9:20 p.m., I was walking on the corner of Griffin and Main. I was by the Green building – the Bank of America building – when around 30 shots were fired. They seem to come from Bank of the America building and dozens of Dallas police cars arrived at the scene immediately…”
“…I was taking cover and I could hear on the police radio that there was an injured person who was shot in the chest and that the suspects could have been in a black SUV.
The police were saying through the radio that the shots might have come from the parking garage of one of the buildings…”
“…Right now I’m on the corner of commerce and griffin. There are over 30 police cars, SWAT trucks, the Homeland Security van and there are cars from the Dallas Fire Department. A lot of police right now have helmets, they have shields, they have assault weapons and they are not letting anyone in around this area…”
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