In the past ten 10 years three local departments lost officers to violence against law enforcement with gun fire.
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The president should visit Baton Rouge and other cities where black men have been killed by police officers, appoint special prosecutors to investigate the deaths and use his executive power to force changes in police departments across the country, Mckesson said.
To increase safety, Baton Rouge police have doubled up on patrols since Sunday, instead of one officer riding alone in a police vehicle, a police spokesman said.
The tragic deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, and then the horrific ambush murders of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, drew the usual statements from President Barack Obama.
“Anyone who kills a police officer and anyone who helps must be held accountable”, Clinton said.
“We’re going to have to do more”, he said, referencing a lack of bulletproof vests and tactical training at some departments as one potential area of improvement.
“But the president dedicated a lot of time to this, both in substance and in symbolism”, Earnest told Fox News’s Kevin Corke during Monday’s White House briefing.
“He’s actually backtracking in terms of what we asked him to do: to talk about the epidemic of policing and minority communities, to really identify the problem, to acknowledge the disparities and to come behind us as a black president especially”, said Ashley Yates, an organizer in Oakland, California, who attended the 2014 session.
The wage demands of unions contrast with calls by Black Lives Matter for less funding of police departments, which activists and other law enforcement observers said have become increasingly militarized.
Other police unions, in St. Louis, Missouri; Minneapolis, Minnesota and NY – and the International Union of Police Associations umbrella group – cited declining recruitment and the shootings as reasons they might seek higher overall compensation. “We have your backs”, Obama said.
Every day, you confront danger so it does not find our families, carry burdens so they do not fall to us, and courageously meet test after test to keep us safe.
This summer’s violence has forced Clinton into a political balancing act, as she tries to highlight the feelings of police discrimination many African-American communities experience while also mourning police officers killed in the line of duty. Sunday’s shooting in Baton Rouge was no different. I reject those efforts, for they do not reflect the reality of our Nation.
We have to work to-gether to be part of the solution despite self-styled urban terrorists who would
impede progress. “That is the engagement that you will see that his movements articulated, they are intact, they are combative and they are real”. What is a prouder example of our most basic freedoms-to speech, to assembly, to life, and to liberty? We have anti-discrimination laws.
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Trump’s early response to the latest tragedy is another sign of his intention to conflate killings and domestic unrest at home with a spate of terror attacks overseas to make a case that weak leadership is leaving America deeply vulnerable and that a much firmer hand is needed in the White House.
