Twelve law enforcement officers were shot, with five killed, after gunshots rang out during an anti-police brutality protest in Dallas on Thursday night.
President Obama condemned the attack as “vicious, calculated and despicable.” Protest organizers called the acts of violence “cowardly.”
Here are some of the powerful images taken as the events began to unfold.
Dallas police move to detain a driver after several police officers were shot in downtown Dallas. At least two snipers opened fire on police officers during protests Thursday night, police said. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Emergency responders administer CPR to an unknown patient on a stretcher as law enforcement officials stand nearby at the emergency receiving area of Baylor University Medical Center early Friday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Dallas police gather as a crowd forms. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
An unidentified woman and a law enforcement officer hold hands as they walk out of the Baylor University Medical Center emergency reception area. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Dallas police officers stand in a line near the site of shootings. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
A clerk looks at broken windows shot out at a store in downtown Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Dallas police crime scene investigators record evidence surrounding a police cruiser parked at the emergency room at Baylor University Medical Center. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A Dallas police officer, who did not want to be identified, takes a moment as she guards an intersection in the early morning on Friday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
A man raises his hands as he walks near a law enforcement officer. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Reunion tower, right, stands with the lights out as the sun rises over downtown Dallas, Friday, July 8, 2016. Many Dallas business turned out their lights to honor the police killed and wounded in an attack Thursday evening. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
