Three more police officers killed by ambush in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and another in critical condition. Obama also wants to discuss “how to strengthen the bonds of trust between law enforcement and the communities they’re sworn to protect”, Earnest said.
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Banks-Daniel and some other council members say they believe that police officers who live within city limits are better able to connect with the neighborhoods they patrol and police.
President Barack Obama published an open letter to US law enforcement days after the deaths of three Louisiana police officers, seeking to counter criticism that he’s indifferent to the plight of police amid tensions with minority communities.
Obama said he promised the families of the in Baton Rouge officers and five officers killed in Dallas during an attack there, as well as those angry about the deaths of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who was shot and killed by Baton Rouge police, and Minnesota man, that efforts to unite communities would extend beyond those incidents. “Any attack on police is an unjustified attack on all of us”.
“We are saddened and horrified to see that another three of our fellow officers have been murdered by a senseless killer”, President Brian R. Marvel said, the President of the San Diego Police Officers Association, in a statement. Spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that such a step was unlikely to happen while noting the president’s steady outreach to and support for police and other law enforcement over the past couple of weeks.
Support continued into the following week, while in Baton Rouge the headlines showed another example of deadly violence against police there. “In times of loss, it is important for those of us in this profession to show respect to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice and to let their families know they have our support”.
In the letter, Obama said “we will get through this hard time together”. “We demand law and order”. “Thank you for your courageous service”.
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Two police organization directors have told Reuters that President Obama agreed to review each item that was put on the so-called “controlled equipment list”, including tracked armored vehicles, grenade launchers, bayonets, explosives and riot equipment.
