LEO Round Table is an internet based law enforcement talk show. This is episode 59, recorded on 07/05/2016, with the following on-air personalities: Chip DeBlock (Host), Luke Lirot (Attorney), Bret Bartlett, Mark Hopper, Bobby Alsip, David D’Agresta and Treena Lewis. This show is a special 1 hour production dealing with the recent Dallas (Texas) sniper and the two (2) deadly shootings leading up to it. In addition to your host, the other panelists (except for attorney Luke Lirot) are active or retired law enforcement officers as well.
Topic 1 concerns sniper Micah Xavier Johnson who shot twelve (12) police officers in Dallas (Texas), five (5) of whom died. Two civilians were also injured. Dallas Area Rapid Transit Officer Brent Thompson and Dallas Police Department Officers Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Lorne Ahrens and Michael Smith all died from being shot by Johnson. Also mentioned in the story is Dallas Police Chief David Brown.
Topic 2 concerns the shooting death of Philando Castile by a Falcon Heights (Minnesota) police officer. Also mentioned in the story is Castile’s girlfriend who shot viral video, Diamond Reynolds.
Topic 3 concerns an altercation between Baton Rouge Police Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake and armed convicted felon Alton Sterling. Sterling was shot and killed by Officer Salamoni during a struggle. Also mentioned in the story is Triple S store owner Abdullah Muflahi, Baton Rouge Police Department Spokesman Cpl. L’Jean McKneely, Black Lives Matter activist Arthur Reed and Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr.
Topic 4 concerns comments from President Barack Obama on the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights by police. These statements, critical of the shootings by police, immediately preceded the sniper attack by Micah Xavier Johnson in Dallas that killed 5 police officers.
