President Obama speaks from Warsaw, shortly after exiting Air Force One.
President Obama on Friday took to national media to weigh in on the overnight Dallas shootings of five police officers and wounding of six others – an attack that came in the midst of protests of police shootings of blacks earlier this week – and said it was a “despicable’ assault but America ought to remember that blacks seem to be killed by cops more than other races.
He first expressed outrage and condolences.
“There’s no possible justification for these kinds of attacks or any attack on law enforcement,” Obama said, CNN reported. “Anybody involved will be held accountable.”
NBC News reported he also said: “I believe I speak for every single American when I say that we are horrified over these events and that we stand united with the people and the police department in Dallas.”
He offered condolences to the Dallas mayor about what he characterized as a “vicious despicable and calculated attack on law enforcement.” And he indicated members of the FBI were on scene to help out with the investigation.
Obama’s comments came from Warsaw, where he’s attending a summit with NATO leaders.
He also commented on the two police shootings of black men earlier this week, both reported by WND, and called on the nation to try to recognize buried biases that need to be “rooted out,” CNN said.
“If communities are mistrustful of the police, that makes those law enforcement officers who are doing a great job, who are doing the right thing, that makes their lives harder,” Obama said. “When people say ‘black lives matter,’ it doesn’t mean that blue lives don’t matter. But right now, the data shows that black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents. There is a particular burden that is being placed on a group of our fellow citizens.”
Late Thursday evening, several snipers shot and killed five police officers in Dallas, and injured six others, in a series of coordinated attacks that came at the end of peaceful protest of fatal officer shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and in Minnesota, as WND reported.
Three suspects were taken into custody, but their names have not been released. One of the suspects is reportedly a woman. And police, early Friday, were warning that they couldn’t assure the shooting spree has ended.
“We still don’t have a complete comfort level that we have all the suspects,” said Dallas Police Chief David Brown, NBC News reported.
A fourth suspect, he said, exchanged gunfire with police in a parking garage in El Centro Community College early in the morning, but was finally “neutralized.” Brown said he told police officials during the negotiation period that “the end is coming” and “there are bombs all over the place in this garage and downtown,” NBC News reported.
The city on Friday was in lockdown while bomb units swept for devices and explosives. The Federal Aviation Administration, meanwhile, ordered a temporary no-fly restriction over the city.
Brown described the attack on the officers an “ambush-style” shooting.
“We believe that these suspects were positioining themselves in a way to triangulate on these officers from two different perches in garages in the downtown area, and planned to injure and kill as many law enforcement officers as they could,” he said, noting some of the police officers were shot in the back.
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