Hours later, amid a protest in Dallas, five police officers were gunned down and killed in a sniper shootings attack. He rattled off a series of statistics to back up his point: Minorities are 30% more likely than whites to be pulled over, three times more likely to be searched and twice as likely to be shot by police, he said.
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“And that hurts. And that should trouble all of us”, Obama said. We must restore the confidence of our people to be safe and secure in their homes and on the street.
Williams was asked about the episodes after winning Wimbledon on Saturday. But she doesn’t think it lessens the need for change.
“‘If you get in your vehicle, it might be the last time I see you'”.
Four of the slain officers are members of the Dallas police department and the fifth was a transit officer.
Williams says “obviously, violence is not the answer of solving it”.
Lavish “Diamond” Reynolds called into a Sunday morning service at The Potter’s House, a Dallas megachurch, to talk about the death of her boyfriend, Philando Castile.
Obama addressed matters of grief, anger of unity at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland.
He then praised the “overwhelming majority of Americans” who he said “have reacted with empathy and understanding” to the past week.
But as he’s done with similar incidents in the past, Obama took pains to acknowledge the hard job police officers have.
Goliad County Judge Pat Calhoun, the county’s top administrator, told the Victoria Advocate (http://bit.ly/29DhLk6) that Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to lower the state flag was a “local issue”.
Obama is cutting his first visit to Spain a day short because of a series of deadly shootings in the U.S.
He ordered flags lowered to half-staff through sunset on Tuesday in honor of those shot in Dallas.
Castile, 32, was introduced to the world during a viral livestreaming video recorded moments after the police officer who stopped him because of a broken tail light opened fire, mortally wounding him in the driver’s seat of a vehicle containing his 4-year-old daughter.
Castile was killed Wednesday night in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights.
He also said earlier that he didn’t have “much information” about what led to the shooting. Two other officers in the case have been acquitted.
A Tennessee man accused of shooting indiscriminately at passing cars and police on a highway told investigators he was angry about police violence against African-Americans, authorities said.
Police have not released details about the officer involved.
The unidentified man died at the scene. Other officers and at least one civilian were wounded.
“Last night’s killer acted with a depraved misbelief that the murder of police officers solves a problem”, Johnson said.
The shootings – which left nine injured, seven of them police officers – sparked chaotic scenes of people running for their lives during a march by several hundred demonstrators in the city of 1.2 million, not far from the site where president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
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Governor Dayton said he does not believe Castile would have been treated that way if he had been white. But a year ago, he canceled a sightseeing trip to the Taj Mahal in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh -where historic Babri Mosque has been demolished by the Hindutva criminal gangs as per a deep rooted conspiracy against Islam and Muslims – to instead pay his respects to the new king of Saudi Arabia, Salman, after the death of his half brother, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
