My thoughts and prayers are with the families and my brothers and sisters in blue in Dallas.   I am tremendously saddened by the loss of life and the hijacking of a peaceful protest by these murderers.  There were two officer involved shootings this week, but neither was in Dallas - neither involved this department, this city or these people (the protestors or the police).  Those shootings deserve a full and fair inquiry and those shooting victims too deserve justice.  But tonight I watched Dallas turn into a combat zone, with a military style operation targeting police officers who were there simply to protect the very people protesting them.  And when those officers began to go down - assassinated by a team of snipers; instead of running away - they helped civilians, covering them, evacuating them and doing what we expect police officers to do.  I have never been more proud of a police department since the valiant efforts of the NYPD and NYFD in the wake of 9/11.