Full interview with father of man who killed Dallas police officer, injured two others

And you're the father to coy cop. Tell me, when did you find out something had happened? Uh, actually last night when, uh, it was about, uh, almost midnight or something like that, uh, police came by and said that, uh, they were doing a welfare check or something, you know, to see if we was ok and all this kind of stuff and, you know, they just wouldn't tell us, you know, what was going on with it, you know, uh, and they set out here and they went through the back and, uh, you know, just, you know, shining lights and trying to see you all in the house and all that kind of stuff and then they just, uh, stayed outside, you know, for the remainder of the night and then at some point they got the search warrant and started looking, what did they, what did they look for? What did they pull? Uh, the only thing I could see that they, uh, got was his computer and, uh, uh, I think he had a couple of clips or something, you know, of, uh, you know, from, uh, you know, his gun and stuff. Did you know, he had a car. Yeah. Yeah, I knew he had but I never, you know, knew he rode with him or had him in the car with him or anything like that when you found out what police say he did that, that he was involved in hurting some police officers. What do you think? Well, uh, I was asking him, you know, most of the night, you know, what's, uh, what's going on? Why are they, you know, you know, have my family up and all this kind of stuff. And, uh, matter of fact, I didn't find out till about almost 830 almost nine o'clock this morning when they actually told me, but I went online and started looking and all that and I kinda, you know, I called my brother and he, uh, kinda informed me that he seen this police chase and all this stuff and that, uh, looked like my son's car. That sound like something your son would be involved in. No, no, he, uh, he's a truck driver too and, uh, he, uh, I, I don't know, I don't have any idea what happened, you know, uh, what was going through his mind or whatever, but, you know, he had, uh, just recently lost his job or something and they might have taken a little toll on him. But that's basically, you know, all I know about that you were telling me that his behavior had changed in the last few days. Yeah. Yeah, it did. I don't know if, uh, because he was talking about, he's into his Muslim stuff and all this stuff and he kind of, uh, feel like somebody was, uh, chasing him like the police was after him, you know, that day and they didn't stop him or anything, but he's got on his Facebook page. I heard that he's talking about like, uh, demons or something like that, you know. I don't know, you know how that came about. That's not normal for him. No, no, no, never normal for him. Do you, has he done, you know, is there any connection possibly to like drugs or something like that? I kind of think so. That's, that's my thought on it. I think, uh, he might have smoked something that, uh, you know, uh, was laced with something or something like that because he's never act anything like that. And you said he had lost his job recently. When did that happen? Uh, it's been about about two or three weeks ago. That's one thing I wanna ask you. I mean, when you found out what they say he did unbelievable. You know, we, uh, I could, I couldn't believe myself because he never behaved anything like that. He's always, uh, you know, love him personally, you know, he, man, that was, that was my baby boy and uh he never, you know, disrespect anybody or anything like that, you know, that's why I, I don't know if it's the truth or not, but I just kind of, I think that, uh, he might have got hold of some kind of bad drugs or something. You know. That's my thoughts about it, sir. Anything else you think we should know that folks should know about all this? Well, uh, he, you know, he was never a bad person though. Never, you know, he just went to work and, you know, he drove trucks too. He, you know, all up in, uh, Iowa and all that kind of stuff and he, you know, uh, was just not, he had been, been driving almost two years though, but he was a very good person to me. You know, that's basically emery when you answered a call when the community looks down on somebody that shoots officers and stuff. I mean, is it kind of hard to, when it's your own loved ones responsible? It, it's a weird thing. You don't want to see anything bad the cops, right? But when in 20 years it's kind of a, a mixed feelings like that in your head at the same time. Uh, it's, it's real hard right now because I, I can't, it's unbelievable, unbelievable that, you know, I don't know if, uh, they start chasing him or, you know, I don't know, you know, the, what actually happened but I know he, uh, had, uh, guns in the car and, uh, I guess after they put their lights on him. I guess he panicked and just went from there all the way. My last question for you, Mr Emery is this, is, there are some folks who see this and who say there, there's police officers dead. There are a couple of others in the hospital and your son is the person who did it and you should have known better and you should have done something different. What would you say to someone who says that or thinks that? Well, uh, actually I think I raised him up. Right. And we had him in church and all this kind of stuff at the beginning and he was, you know, uh, uh, on a healthy food, uh, diet and all this kind of stuff. And, uh, I think, uh, that, uh, you know, I don't, I don't know if, because police are killing black kids all the time and they might, he might have got afraid of something like that, you know. Uh, it's kind of hard to say because I wasn't there, you know, it's hard to wrap your head around. Right. Right. And I don't know if they provoked him first or, you know, because, you know, he, he, he ride around the city all the time and he, you know, never have any problems. So, you know, I just, uh, I don't know, uh, what provoked that Mr Emer. Do you mind showing us that picture of him? You can just hold it up there? And we'll get a, get a shot of him. And you said, how old is he? 29? No. Well, actually he just turned 30 just turned 30 just turned 30.