Stoltenberg says North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, founded in 1949, needs to adapt to confront an array of new threats to its member nations’ security, including cyberattacks and violent extremism sparked by radical Muslim organizations like the Islamic State group.
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The president sees delivering this sort of guidance a core part of his leadership, so much so that some of his memorable speeches were in honor of mass shooting victims, including his challenge to protect children from guns in Newtown, Conn. – “We’re not doing enough.” – and his singing of “Amazing Grace” after the shooting in a black church in Charleston, S.C. But there’s unity in recognizing that this is not how we want our communities to operate.
The easy availability of guns, he said, “is a contributing factor, not the sole factor, but a contributing factor between the broader tensions that arise between police and the communities they serve”.
“You’re not seeing riots, you’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully”, he said. “But we can make it harder for them to do so”. He said the U.S.is unique among advanced countries in the scale of violence it experiences.
U.S. Army retired Combat Medic Chandler Davis stood in quiet salute for hours at a makeshift memorial outside the Dallas Police Headquarters, in Dallas, Texas, July 9, 2016.
Video footage taken of two white officers tackling Sterling, 37, last Tuesday was posted online, setting off angry protests, and the Justice Department swiftly agreed to open a civil rights investigation.
Biden added, “Those who were marching against the kind of shocking images we saw in St. Paul and Baton Rouge – and have seen too often elsewhere – of too many black lives lost”.
“We believe now that the city is safe”, Mayor Mike Rawlings told a news conference late on Friday.
“How the negotiations work, I think is going to be up to the parties involved”, the president said Saturday. “They don’t speak for us”. Wednesday, an officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota shot and killed Philando Castile, who was black, during a traffic stop. “Russia’s aggressive actions, including provocative military activities” are a source of instability, they said, while “security is also deeply affected” by events in the Middle East and North Africa.
Police searched a headquarters parking garage for a “suspicious person” but no suspect was found. The shooter allegedly voiced a desire to “kill white people” ahead of the attack, authorities have said. He said the man who attacked the officers was cowardly.
Obama said Dallas shooter Micah Johnson, 25, who was killed in a standoff with police, was “demented” and did not represent African Americans.
He said the country has made tremendous progress, both in lowering violent crime rates and on achieving racial equality.
When reflecting on his legacy, especially regarding race relations, he said he hoped his daughters and their children would live in a more equal and just society. “And somebody else maybe sits under the shade of the tree that we planted”.
He returned to that theme Friday morning.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said the gunman “may have targeted individuals and officers after being troubled by recent incidents involving African-Americans and law enforcement officers”.
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Leaders from across the USA spectrum have spoken out in a spirit of appeasement after a week of violence that graphically highlighted America’s racial challenges.
