Attorney General Loretta Lynch calls for peace after Dallas shootings

Published July 8, 2016 1:16 PM EDT

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is calling for peace and calm after Thursday night's deadly shootings of police in Dallas. 

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Lynch called the attack "an unfathomable tragedy," and said the spate of violence can't be allowed to "precipitate a new normal."

The gunfire that killed five police officers and wounded seven others erupted during a protest march prompted by the shootings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.