Dallas shooting:5 police officers killed,6 hurt by gunmen;standoff reportedly over.

The heated moments came just hours after four suspected snipers opened fire on police officers at an anti-violence protest in Dallas, leaving five dead and several wounded.

“There’s a whole different tension going on,” said Mica Grimm, an organiser of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, when the standoff appeared to end.

Following a vigil on Thursday at the school where Castile worked, Grimm said a smaller group of roughly two dozen people broke away around 8pm CT, and began marching to Larpenteur Avenue and Fry Street, the intersection in nearby Falcon Heights about five miles away.
The group moved along a light-rail route, disrupting traffic and at one point halting transit service. Grimm said the crowd swelled to about 200 people along the way to the scene of Castile’s death.
When the group made the return trip, she said “there was a small group that was upset”. At one point, she said, someone smashed a window of a police cruiser, and, along Grand Avenue, storefront windows were broken by rocks. Police then quickly assembled.

As officers sought to push the protesters off Grand Avenue, Grimm claimed police fired two-three rubber bullets at the crowd  a moment captured on video and posted on Twitter. No one was hit, she said.

About 20 minutes later, she continued, protesters formed a line and linked arms in an effort to de-escalate the situation. “People started chanting, expressing how they felt about Black Lives Matter,” Grimm said.

Dozens remained outside the Minnesota governor’s residence, a sprawling property located in an affluent section of St Paul. Similar to the night before, the protesters planned to keep a presence outside the home of the Minnesota governor, Mark Dayton, through the night.

“People do plan on staying here all night,” said Grimm.

The situation felt significantly heated, she added, given the circumstances in Dallas were still unfolding. “What happened in Dallas is going to change everything,” she said.