Dallas shooter linked to leftist revolution groups, nation of Islam?

From The American Thinker Blog:

Facts are still being gathered, but a few developments have surfaced that suggest that Dallas terrorist Micah Johnson had ties to and sympathies for the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, and the radical African American Defense League.

I called it. For several hours after the shooter was ID'd, the Drive-By media named the suspect, an army veteran, but did not show his picture. The media did include his quote of wanting "kill white people." I assumed it was because he was black and any pictures would only reinforce the stereotype of a thug.

On Facebook, Micah Johnson, the Dallas sniper, liked the New Black Panther Party and the African American Defense League.

From Althouse via H/T at Instapundit:

It's origin and purpose, still a total mystery.

Obama: ‘Very Hard to Untangle’ Dallas Shooter’s Motive.

We may never know why he did what he did.

President 4Putt is such a blind partisan.

Micah Johnson Was Kicked Out of the Army for Stealing Panties

From The Daily Beast via H/T at Hotair:

But by numerous reports, Johnson and his Army Reserves engineering unit did not see so much as a moment of combat.

At least part of Johnson’s manifest transformation seems to have been the result not of PTSD, but of what might be termed PTDD, Post Traumatic Disgrace Disorder.

As reported by one of his bunkmates in Afghanistan, Johnson suffered a particular shame.

“We all knew he was a pervert cuz he got caught stealing girls’ panties,” the bunkmate later said in a Facebook post.

Wow! He should have gotten a dishonorable discharge. The would have flagged his universal background check and possibly prevented him from getting a gun.

CBS -- Army recommended disciplinary discharge for Dallas shooter

From Hotair:

After initial reports of multiple snipers in the Dallas massacre on Thursday night, it became apparent that the mass murderer was one man — a former soldier named Micah Xavier Johnson. How did a decorated Afghanistan combat veteran end up among the worst of police assassins in US history? CBS News dug into Johnson’s background, and found a disturbing decline in his behavior, but nothing that would have warned law enforcement of the imminent threat.

This video report has less information than the accompanying article. As it turns out, the Army booted him out of Afghanistan for serious misconduct — serious enough to recommend a disciplinary discharge rather than counseling:

Starting in 2009, Johnson served in the Army Reserve as a private first class with a specialty in carpentry and masonry, the military said.

In May 2014, six months into his Afghanistan tour, he was accused of sexual harassment by a female soldier. The Army sent him stateside, recommending an “other than honorable discharge,” said Bradford Glendening, the military lawyer who represented him.

That recommendation was “highly unusual,” Bradford said, since counseling is usually ordered before more drastic steps are taken.

“In his case, it was apparently so egregious, it was not just the act itself,” Glendening told The Associated Press. “I’m sure that this guy was the black sheep of his unit.”

And that’s his attorney speaking.

Somehow I just not surprised to find this out.