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Attorney Pete Schulte visited the CBS 11 set to talk about Saturday's activity at Dallas Police headquarters regarding a threat made.
The body of fallen DART officer Brent Thompson was taken to a funeral home in Corsicana Saturday.
Police agencies across the U.S. are on edge and on guard after receiving threats and calls for violence against them on social media in the aftermath of the killings of two black men and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dallas. Some departments ordered officers to pair up or more generally said they were heightening security.
Protesters who support the Black Lives Matter movement rallied in Salt Lake City, with some saying they grieved both the losses of the black men in Louisiana and Minnesota and fallen Dallas police officers.
Police continue to investigate the shootings of Dallas officers, and Mayor Mike Rawlings visits Dallas police station.
The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march received training from a private self-defense school in Texas, a school official said Saturday at the academy that teaches firearm tactics, including "shooting on the move," a maneuver in which an attacker fires and changes position before firing again.
According to police, a credible threat was made against Dallas Police headquarters late Saturday afternoon.
The memorial to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a closed crime scene to the usual hordes of weekend tourists Saturday. Once again, Dallas is the seat of national grief.
The Dallas shooting that killed five officers has spurred an outpouring of support for police, not only in Texas but hundreds of miles away.
The killings of five police officers during a protest march in Dallas decrying the shooting deaths of two men in Louisiana and Minnesota was a "horrific, despicable" act, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday, but also argued that police officers need to be prosecuted when they are involved in the deaths of innocent people.
President Obama on Saturday rejected the notion that this week's stunning violence is a signal that the U.S. has returned to some of the darkest days of its past. "America is not as divided as some have suggested," he said.
Police in Dallas are getting help from the FBI as they work to piece together their investigation of the Thursday night ambush on officers downtown. Many streets in the area remain blocked on Saturday.
The ambush in Dallas was shown live on television and followed on social media, making it harder for kids to be shielded from the tragedy. So, how should parents address the topic with their children?
While downtown Dallas ambush shooter Micah Johnson had no criminal record, he did have a troubled past in the U.S. Army. He was sent back to the U.S. from Afghanistan with a recommendation that he be removed from service.
