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DALLAS<\/strong> – It has been nine years since the ambush in Downtown Dallas<\/a> that left five police officers dead. The shooting happened during an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in July 2016.<\/p>\n During a news conference on Monday, July 7, 2025, Rob Kyker, retired Texas Police Commissioner said, “We’re here today to remember and make a promise that we will never forget. The promise was made at three o’clock in the morning on the eighth.”<\/p>\n Downtown Dallas Ambush 2016 <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Dallas Police Department officers Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, Patrick Zamarripa, and Dallas Area Rapid Transit Officer Brent Thompson were killed.<\/p>\n MORE: July 7, 2016 Downtown Dallas Police Ambush Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n Police used a robot and explosives to kill the shooter, who was found hiding on Dallas College\u2019s El Centro campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n Back on that fateful night, there was a DART bus driver who rescued dozens of protesters trapped near the shootout.<\/p>\n This FOX 4 documentary details our coverage of the ambush attack in 2016 that killed 5 officers and injured a dozen others in Downtown Dallas. Cpl. Lorne Ahrens, Officer Michael Krol, Sgt. Michael Smith, DART Officer Brent Thompson and Officer Patricio “Patrick” Zamarripa were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n The five officers\u2019 names are forever etched into the side of a police memorial, honoring all of our fallen officers.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article is from previous FOX 4 News coverage.<\/p>\n July 7, 2016 Downtown Dallas Police Ambush<\/a>Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS – It has been nine years since the ambush in Downtown Dallas that left five police…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,36325,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-46834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-july-7-dallas-ambush","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114813799460426201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"In](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/B50509F6C9697AF2489EDFE3D42D5331.jpg\")
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