Protester named by police as Dallas suspect reacts with fury despite walking through rally with an ASSAULT RIFLE
AN innocent man arrested over the Dallas shootings has told how he feared he was going to be shot dead by police.
Mark Hughes says he has received death threats after his photo was wrongly released by Dallas Police who named him as a suspect.
A radical black power group has now claimed responsibility for a murderous sniper attack that left five police dead.
"I don't know what to say - I can't believe it," said Mr Hughes.
"In hindsight 20/20 I could have been shot.
"I received a phone call that my face was out as a suspect. I immediately flagged down a police officer and told him.
"Until then I had been laughing and joking with police."
Mr Hughes had been carrying an AR-15 assault rifle - which was unloaded - to exercise his Second Amendment rights to bear arms.
He was seen handing the weapon over to police earlier today before being taken to the station.
After a 30-minute interrogation by police, Mr Hughes has accused officers of lying to make him admit to being guilty before the terror group claimed responsibility.
He added: "I just got out of an interrogation room for 30 minutes where police officers were lying saying they had video footage of me shooting. They said they had witnesses that I had shot a gun, which was a lie.
"The system was trying to get me.
"I have asked [for an apology] , now that my face is plastered out on national news. I have been getting threats on social media.
"At the end of the day it was persecution against me, and I feel like they need to do something about that.
"I'm not satisfied with an apology."
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Mr Hughes had been protesting at the Black Lives Matter demonstration over the spate of fatal shootings of black men by police.
The protests were sparked the deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana at the hands of police this week.
Castile's death was streamed live on Facebook by his girlfriend.
She says her boyfriend was reaching for his ID when police shot him four times
Father-of-five Alton Sterling, 37, was shot “several times” while he was pinned to the ground outside a store in Louisiana after being confronted by two Baton Rouge Police Department officers.
Cory Hughes lashed out at the police department for sharing his brother's photo on Twitter.
In a video on Facebook, he said: “My brother’s on CNN, Fox News, he’s on all these places as a suspect, and that’s heartbreaking because he had nothing to do with it.
"When they decided to put my brother on the national media as a suspect, I approached the police to let them know, 'Hey man, my brother had nothing to do with it."
"They'll run all kind of tests.
"They run a test on me; they're going to run a test on him. But please let the world know that we helped protest but we had nothing to do with this foolishness."
Cory said his brother turned himself and his gun into police.
The Black Power Political Organization threatened to carry out even more attacks in a chilling Facebook post uploaded this morning.
It read: “#BlackPower! #BlackKnights! Sniper Assassins Take Down Five Police Officers! And More Will Be Assassinated In The Coming Days! Do You Like The Work Of Our Assassins? Get Your
Own Sniper Rifle And Join Our Thousands Of Sniper Assassins Worldwide In The Fight Against Oppression!”
Two officers killed in the deadly attack have been pictured for the first time.
Patrick Zamarripa and Brent Thompson were both gunned down while working at the Texas rally.
