Obama praised police for protecting and serving the people. Including a sit-in at Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion, lasting into early Tuesday. A folded flag and a police hat rested on each chair.
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But just a couple hours after it was reopened, police closed it again as demonstrators who are protesting the police shooting of Philando Castile took over the avenue again.
The Obamas and the Bidens were also meeting privately with families of the slain officers and those who were wounded.
In the afternoon, the President will deliver remarks at an interfaith memorial service at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center with the families of the fallen police officers and members of the Dallas community.
Obama met Monday at the White House with representatives of police organizations.
At a memorial service in Dallas, the president insisted the nation is not as divided as it seems. Marc Veasey and Eddie Bernice Johnson.
Obama on police: “We know that the overwhelming majority of police officers do an incredibly hard and unsafe job fairly and professional”. East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore has recused himself, leaving Attorney General Jeff Landry to handle any state criminal investigation. He says the appointment of an outside prosecutor would depoliticize the work.
Five people were arrested on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., after firing at police officers responding to reports of gunshots.
Bush called the shooting last Thursday evil, and said the shock of the attack had not yet faded. No injuries were reported.
The finger-pointing escalated after the massacre of five police officers in Dallas during a peaceful protest against the deaths of the black men. When officers arrived in marked police cruisers, people inside an SUV began shooting at them.
Sternbeck tells WTOP (http://bit.ly/29KuIKw ) “we do not have information that this was a planned attack on police”.
“Today we open our city’s doors” he said, thanking Obama for attending the memorial service.
Sterling, a black man, was shot and killed by white officers last week.
He said policing is made harder because the nation fails to fund mental health and drug abuse efforts. They also hope that his words will somehow help them make sense of the event that has so disrupted their lives. They did not get a chance to properly say goodbye.
Police made almost 200 arrests in Louisiana’s capital city during weekend protests, which are growing across the country as people express outrage over deaths at the hands of police. “They will be more likely to come home”. After about 30 minutes, three women and two men in the SUV surrendered. But at times in his speech Tuesday, Obama had an nearly pleading tone in his voice, imploring us not to give up on the idea of common American identity and objective.
Obama on Tuesday will tie his condolences to a more specific political issue: The lasting rift between black communities and police.
Obama has denounced the shooting as a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement” by a “demented” individual. The president, along with First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, and Biden’s wife Jill, will meet privately with the families of the slain officers, and those injured. Defusing those tensions will take a deft hand and carefully chosen words, navigating between the opposing pressures of protesters and police, blacks and whites, Republican and Democrats.
“The president is hoping to offer some measure of comfort”, Earnest said.
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A call for national unity and solidarity was reinforced by several speakers at the interfaith service, including former President George W. Bush, a Dallas resident, who attended with his wife, Laura.
