CRI听力:World reacts to Dallas shooting, racial protests continue in U.S.

People in Dallas continue to pay their respects at makeshift memorials set up in the city for the five police officers who were shot dead on Thursday.

Ira Carter with the Dallas Police Department says he has been touched by the outpouring of support.

"It means a lot that people have our back, but on the flip side we love who we serve. As a Dallas police officer, we take everything we do with the respect, that we chose this job for a reason. It takes a special person to be a police officer, so what we see out here, it's just overwhelming."

Speaking outside a memorial set up just outside a local Police Department office, Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings says he has received messages of support from around the globe.

"I've had texts from all over the world. You know, we're all human. And I think that people feel each others pain. That's what makes it great, that's what makes you hopeful that we can do this, that we can move from senseless, absurdity that's like a Camus novel, to something that has redemption and hope in it. "

While there is virtually nothing but support for the victims of the seemingly senseless killings, the incident itself is generating debate on a larger scale around the world about what is happening in the United States when it comes to people's personal safety.

"'In the US, it has a lot to do with the right to bear arms. In China, normal people can't have guns. In the US, there is too much freedom, everybody can have a gun. It is one of the reasons this shooting happened.'

'When you look at it, these kinds of events happen in America quite often. Obama has come out and addressed the nation, sent a message to his people, and said 'We haven't been able to beat this, I'm very upset.' Even for a powerful country, I guess it means that America has not yet been able to overcome this thing called racism.'"

Authorities have identified 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, a former US Army reservist, as the man behind Thursday's targeted killings.

Johnson was a private first class and was deployed to Afghanistan between 2013 and 2014.

Motivated by racial angst to carry out the shooting on Thursday, Johnson was later killed when the police detonated a bomb delivered by a robot after he refused to surrender.

Officials have said that they believe Johnson acted alone.

A total of 12 officers were shot, 5 fatally.

Two civilians were also injured in the shootings.

The incident took place during an otherwise peaceful demonstration, which was put together to protest recent police killings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.

Despite the shootings, protests connected to racial tensions have continued across the US since Thursday.

On Friday, police in the city of Rochester, New York arrested 74 people during a "Black Lives Matter" demonstration, citing "disorderly conduct."

On Saturday, just outside the Minnesota governor's mansion in St. Paul, demonstrators continued to call for justice in the fatal police shooting of a black driver.

That demonstration has continued for three days, attracting around 15-hundred protesters at one point.

Meanwhile, social media users in the US continue to debate a decision made on Friday by the publishers of the New York Post.

The tabloid newspaper, run by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, is being accused by some of inciting racial hatred after publishing a headline simply reading "Civil War," even as the shooting spree in Dallas was still unfolding on Friday morning.

For CRI, I'm Victor Ning.