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Obama condemns 'despicable' shootings of Dallas police officers
LA Times ^ | July 8, 2016 | Michael A. Memoli

Posted on 07/08/2016 5:05:50 AM PDT by Pinkbell

President Obama called the shooting deaths of at least five Dallas police officers a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack” and a “wrenching reminder” of the sacrifices of law enforcement.

Speaking from Warsaw on Friday after the first of a series of meetings with European Union and NATO leaders, the president said he had offered his condolences to the Dallas mayor overnight.

“We are horrified over these events,” he said. “We stand united with the people in the police department in Dallas.”

The officers were monitoring a peaceful protest Thursday of police shootings of black men this week in Minnesota and Louisiana when gunmen opened fired downtown. Six more officers were wounded, and three people were in custody.

“There has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement,” Obama said. “… There is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks, or any violence against law enforcement. Justice will be done.”

Just hours earlier, from the same room, Obama had addressed the two shootings that prompted the Dallas protest and mourned the victims: Alton Sterling, shot to death while he was pinned to the ground Tuesday by two white police officers in Baton Rouge, La.; and Philando Castile, killed Wednesday in a traffic stop in a scene that in part played out via Facebook Live video by his girlfriend.

Obama had offered a litany of statistics of how blacks are treated by police to illustrate what he called “conscious and unconscious” biases and flaws in the criminal justice system, and said the nation must ask: “What can we do better so that everybody feels as if they’re equal under the law?”

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Now I didn't see this in other reports I read, but USA Today, which articles can't be posted from, had this quote:

"As he did earlier Friday, Obama called on Americans to do more to address police-involved shootings and violence in the criminal justice system. And he also suggested that lax gun laws also played a role: "We also know that when people are armed with powerful weapons, it makes shootings like this more deadly and more tragic," he said."

Obama bringing up gun control immediately. Shocking. Everything has to have a politicized narrative. They had a Democrat member of Congress on CNN this morning who also was bringing up gun control.

1 posted on 07/08/2016 5:05:50 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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“And he also suggested that lax gun laws also played a role:”

If they were black, is he going to blame the ending of slavery too?


2 posted on 07/08/2016 5:07:51 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Pinkbell
I condemn this despicable President.
3 posted on 07/08/2016 5:09:03 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Pinkbell

This guy has condemned the police while making excuses for Islamic terrorists. He’s going down in history alright.


4 posted on 07/08/2016 5:10:47 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative (HILLARY NEEDS TO ANSWER FOR DEMOCRAT JUDGES SOFT ON CRIME/REPEAT OFFENDERS)
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To: Pinkbell

This is directly linked to him and his BLM allies.

Pray America wakes


5 posted on 07/08/2016 5:11:01 AM PDT by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: Pinkbell

IMPEACH THE BASTARD SON OF A WHORE


6 posted on 07/08/2016 5:11:18 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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Obama has the blood of the slain Dallas police on his hands

Where oh where is our Cassius?


7 posted on 07/08/2016 5:13:04 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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Obama is responsible for all the racial division in the country presently.


8 posted on 07/08/2016 5:13:44 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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Now Obama is color-blind,


9 posted on 07/08/2016 5:14:15 AM PDT by granada
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To: Pinkbell

I heard the President loud and clear, the dog whistler says “The Justified Shooting of Police Officers is wrong”

What a POTUS!


10 posted on 07/08/2016 5:14:26 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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Taqiyyah.

This is just what he has been trying to foment since he entered politics.


11 posted on 07/08/2016 5:14:53 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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..If they were black, is he going to blame the ending of slavery too...

Maybe he can work in that the police acted stupidly too.


12 posted on 07/08/2016 5:15:33 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Pinkbell

“Obama bringing up gun control immediately. “

I have an idea. Let’s make crime illegal!!!!


13 posted on 07/08/2016 5:15:48 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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“We are horrified over these events,” he said. “We stand united with the people in the police department in Dallas.”

Taqiyya

14 posted on 07/08/2016 5:15:59 AM PDT by Kudsman (Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
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To: Pinkbell

Obama and his coddling of the BLM and NBPP thugs built that...


15 posted on 07/08/2016 5:16:03 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Pinkbell; MeganC; Sarah Barracuda; 2ndDivisionVet; onyx
Shut it You POS!

You helped cause this!

Divide and Conquer

16 posted on 07/08/2016 5:16:22 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: Pinkbell

This is the America that Barry Soetoro has created for us; now we have to decide how we’ll deal with it...


17 posted on 07/08/2016 5:16:44 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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Sheriff Clarke: Obama Didn’t Cause Dallas Shootings But He Fuels The Anger!

"Sheriff David Clarke had an emotional response to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Jesse Jackson's response to the Dallas police shootings and their race baiting rhetoric. "

18 posted on 07/08/2016 5:16:47 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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This was fully expected, had to get Hillary and her crimes off the headlines.


19 posted on 07/08/2016 5:17:11 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (By His wounds we are healed.)
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To: bray

“Pray America wakes”
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And pray that it’s not too late if/when America finally does wake up.


20 posted on 07/08/2016 5:17:59 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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