The Dallas shooting forced the White House to consider whether Obama would continue his travels as planned.
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He says those who protested the killings of the two black men are as outraged as anyone by the killings of five police officers in Dallas.
“We also know when people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately, it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic”, Obama said.
At the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit, Obama announced plans for a US -led battalion of about 1,000 troops that will deploy to Poland.
After the latest deadly shooting of a black American by police, President Barack Obama has said United States police departments needed to move more quickly to reform.
Alton Sterling was shot by police in Baton Rouge, La., on Tuesday; video showed him lying on the ground at the time he was shot.
Governor Dayton said he does not believe Castile would have been treated that way if he had been white.
Micah Johnson, who donned a protective vest and used a military-style semi-automatic rifle, was killed by a robot-delivered bomb after the Thursday evening shootings, authorities said.
Speaking from Poland, where he’d been attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit, President Obama rejected the idea that the attack was a sign of division in American society.
President Obama on Friday condemned the “despicable” murders of five police officers in Dallas, saying there’s no justification for the shootings.
Obama has wrestled for much of his presidency with the policing issue, the “Black Lives Matter” movement and his role as the first black president in responding to them.
The Dallas ambush marked the single biggest loss of life for law enforcement in the United States since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
“It is my understanding that investigators have now publicly ruled out the possibility that the individual who carried out this awful act of violence had any sort of connections to terrorist organisations, either in the United States or around the world”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters in Warsaw. So far, Obama’s deputies have cajoled and sued more than 30 police jurisdictions to adopt federal rules in a slow-motion creation of a national police system, similar to the slow-motion creation of a federal-run health-sector via Obamacare.
The president went on to list a number of statistics showing black Americans are subject to disparities under the nation’s law enforcement system. “That just means all lives matter”. Theresa Williams said her sister Shetamia Taylor, who was attending a rally with her four teenage sons in downtown Dallas, was shot in one of her legs.
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Obama’s diagnosis of the problem reflected a growing sense of frustration and willingness to speak out publicly about police killings despite the risk of making law enforcement officers feel under attack.
