
Two little girls who both lost their fathers in the Dallas police shooting last week shared a poignant moment at yesterday's memorial.

The older girl is Caroline Smith, 10, whose father, Sergeant Michael Smith was gunned down by crazed sniper Micah Johnson in downtown Dallas last Thursday.

She is seen handing putting a bracelet on the tiny wrist of adorable Lyncoln Zamarripa, aged two, whose father Patrick was also shot dead in Dallas.

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Friendship: Caroline Smith, left, put a bracelet on the wrist of Lyncoln Zamarripa, right, at a memorial ceremony

Yesterday President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush and the city's Chief of Police, David Brown, led the tributes at a memorial to the five police officers gunned down as they watched over a Black Lives Matter protest.

Caroline and Lyncoln, who had never met before, met up backstage after the formal ceremony and the gesture is almost heart-breaking in its simplicity.

Caroline, wearing glasses and a cream and pink summer dress, reaches down to Lyncoln and puts a bracelet on her wrist.

The picture, taken by a family friend, was shared on the Internet and never has the phrase 'a picture tells a thousand words' been more true.

Both girls share an unwanted bond - they had lost their fathers, killed so senselessly while in the line of duty.

Fathers: Patrick Zamarripa, left, and Michael Smith, right, were both killed in last week's Dallas police massacre

'There's no greater love than this: that these five men gave their lives for all of us,' said Dallas Chief of Police David Brown (right) in his speech yesterday

Sergeant Smith and Officer Zamarripa were killed while standing guard as hundreds peacefully protested the recent police killings of two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, in Minnesota and Louisiana respectively.

Smith, a 25-year forced veteran, was a former Army Ranger, who left behind another daughter, 14-year-old Victoria, and wife Heidi.

Zamarripa, 32, served in Iraq before joining the Dallas Police Department.

He leaves behind a stepson and a wife, Kristy, as well as little Lyncoln.