OBAMA SAYS AMERICA IS HORRIFIED OVER DALLAS ATTACK

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday that America is “horrified” by a targeted shooting of police officers in Dallas, and he said there is no justification for the violence.

“We still don’t know all the facts. What we do know is that there has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement,” Obama said in a brief statement to reporters.

Obama spoke from Warsaw where he was holding talks with NATO and European Union leaders. The president arrived early Friday shortly before the attack killed five officers and wounded seven others during protests over fatal police shootings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.

The president called the motive behind the sniper attack “twisted” and vowed that “justice will be done.”

“There is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks or any violence against law enforcement,” Obama said.

The Dallas shooting forced the White House to consider whether Obama would continue his travels as planned. Obama is slated to attend meetings in Warsaw Saturday before heading on to Spain, where his itinerary includes cultural stops and meetings with Spanish leaders. He’s not due back in Washington until Monday.

“I just don’t have any changes to the schedule to announce, particularly given that this is something that just transpired in the last 18 hours, but it’s something that we will follow closely and if it merits or requires a change in the president’s schedule, then we’ll certainly let you know,” presidential spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday evening.

He said Obama would attend NATO’s summit Saturday and proceed with a planned news conference in the evening.

“He didn’t get a lot of sleep last night and he won’t get much tonight.”

Immediately after landing in Warsaw, and before the shootings, Obama made a point of expressing solidarity with protesters. In a hastily arranged statement to reporters, a visibly frustrated Obama urged Americans to do more to fight injustice and racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

The remarks were aimed in part at ensuring Obama’s voice wasn’t absent from the roiling public debate over police shootings – an issue he has prioritized in his second term. The president has acknowledged becoming out of touch with the public mood during past foreign travels and seemed determined not to let that happen this week.

In his initial comments on racial bias in policing, Obama proved to be grimly attuned to the potential for violence directed at police and criticism that the protesters were hostile toward law enforcement.

There’s no contradiction between supporting law enforcement and working to see that biases in the justice system are rooted out, Obama said.

“So when people say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter,” he said, referring to police. “It just means all lives matter – but right now, the big concern is the fact that the data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents.”

Obama expressed his gratitude to police officers and noted he had grieved with families of fallen officers. He reiterated that message Friday morning.

“Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices that they make for us,” Obama said. “Today our focus is on the victims and their families. They are heartbroken. The entire city of Dallas is grieving. Police across America, which is a tight-knit family, feels this loss to their core.”

Obama said he spoke with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings early Friday and offered his support and condolences. He said the FBI is also in contact with Dallas police.

2 Comments

1. Younghyun Kim

   July 9, 2016 at 4:15 AM

   As a weak and uneducated worldling, I deeply lament the death of those all whom not only had wreaked their energies on achieving world peace and justice, who but also were in uniform for their countries. Needless to say, our time’s all sorts of flagrant and despicable and savage human errors have no choice but to meet with our time’s stringent laws, such as life imprisonment and the death penalty. And we human beings’ each must not be an idle onlooker against those whole who are always trying not only to wreak social mayhem, but also to segregate all mankind from this world in addition to toppling or destructing this world.

   We human beings and international society were always at risks for all world evildoers(including terrorists and dictators)’ calculated(or intentionally) brutality since those all were exposing their brutality of the attack all around the world. So, after all, we must be prepare for a crisis + an unexpectedly havoc + all sorts of global disasters in time of all serene. And our humans must recognize that our era’s monetary flows + value we all were always bowing to can never conceal or hide our time’s every human atrocites or outrages.

   But despite that same obvious warning message, all we humans and the whole countries are looking the other way or ostracizing it. And those all already were entangled in following’s passage – Money is everything these days or in today’s society. No country and no one is free from this fact, even including Kings and Queens + Presidents and P.Ms or Chancellors. What a ridiculous!That is to say, our mundane matters or world affairs were drifting along from the sublime to the ridiculous.

   With the way things stand at the moment, all mankind can’t hope to utterly defeat a throng of rascals or villains including heinous dictators + vicious terrorists or extremists + all world cruel perpetrators. Sternly speaking, all world people must come to their senses or wake up to this undeniable fact. For those same countless numbers of reasons the whole countries and all world people made and let themselves be unde the delusion of grandeur of those sames, our era’s poor people are on their last pins or dying without any countermeasures, poor global children who can’t attend to schools due to money are leaving alone, weak women and childs were being troubled with or suffering from human rights abuses + the exploitations of labor + human traffickings + early marriage + incest + . . ., and modern slavery of our time due to our 21st century’s the almighty dollar principle and monetary value we all had been focuing on over the whole life.

   Needless to say, it is time to change this world, maintain or recover the purification of the innate value of a pure human being, bring the whole countries to normal direction for/with world peace and justice, reform our shameful humans’ bad characters, . . ., and to embody/realize equality bit by bit. That’s why it is tardy to do something for mankind and its universal value of our era for eternal peace because the entire countries and almost 99% humans were in blind obedience to money + their desire for power and material gain or those all were making a frantic search for them.

   So, we human beings’ forward for this world and humanity have a long way to go because of our own-creating monsters of inhumanity + insolence or haughtiness + owns’ unpardonable atrocities. We all must tell this world the truth of our own human nature and also, reflect on ourselves without any kind of prerequisites and hesitations. The only way it is because of we all can expiate our shameful sins towards this world.

   In conclusion or Wrapping up this coarse/plain message, this weak and disinterested and uneducated world worldling asks all your korean people and every precious world people a simple qury “like” what does this world or our mankind’s long-cherished good world look forward to want the most at this crisis moment? only Money or Mammonism or Desire for power or World destruction or The expansion of the weapons of mass destruction or Dictatorship or World trade disputes or Global economic wars or Pride and prejudice or The extinction of our mankind or Harsh Deforestation or Global warming or Glacier melting or . . ., and nuclear/nuke war? Thanks a lot for reading and paying a little bit attention! Good luck to all humanity!

   2016. 07. 09. in Dokdo, Seoul, and Sokcho from Younghyun Kim

   Reply
2. Younghyun Kim

   July 9, 2016 at 4:24 AM

   As a weak and uneducated worldling, I deeply lament the death of those all whom not only had wreaked their energies on achieving world peace and justice, who but also were in uniform for their countries. Needless to say, our time’s all sorts of flagrant and despicable and savage human errors have no choice but to meet with our time’s stringent laws, such as life imprisonment and the death penalty. And we human beings’ each must not be an idle onlooker against those whole who are always trying not only to wreak social mayhem, but also to segregate all mankind from this world in addition to toppling or destructing this world.

   We human beings and international society were always at risks for all world evildoers(including terrorists and dictators)’ calculated(or intentionally) brutality since those all were exposing their brutality of the attack all around the world. So, after all, we must be prepare for a crisis + an unexpectedly havoc + all sorts of global disasters in time of all serene. And our humans must recognize that our era’s monetary flows + value we all were always bowing to can never conceal or hide our time’s every human atrocites or outrages.

   But despite that same obvious warning message, all we humans and the whole countries are looking the other way or ostracizing it. And those all already were entangled in following’s passage – Money is everything these days or in today’s society. No country and no one is free from this fact, even including Kings and Queens + Presidents and P.Ms or Chancellors. What a ridiculous!That is to say, our mundane matters or world affairs were drifting along from the sublime to the ridiculous.

   With the way things stand at the moment, all mankind can’t hope to utterly defeat a throng of rascals or villains including heinous dictators + vicious terrorists or extremists + all world cruel perpetrators. Sternly speaking, all world people must come to their senses or wake up to this undeniable fact. For those same countless numbers of reasons the whole countries and all world people made and let themselves be unde the delusion of grandeur of those sames, our era’s poor people are on their last pins or dying without any countermeasures, poor global children who can’t attend to schools due to money are leaving alone, weak women and childs were being troubled with or suffering from human rights abuses + the exploitations of labor + human traffickings + early marriage + incest + . . ., and modern slavery of our time due to our 21st century’s the almighty dollar principle and monetary value we all had been focuing on over the whole life.

   Needless to say, it is time to change this world, maintain or recover the purification of the innate value of a pure human being, bring the whole countries to normal direction for/with world peace and justice, reform our shameful humans’ bad characters, . . ., and to embody/realize equality bit by bit. That’s why it is tardy to do something for mankind and its universal value of our era for eternal peace because the entire countries and almost 99% humans were in blind obedience to money + their desire for power and material gain or those all were making a frantic search for them.

   So, we human beings’ forward for this world and humanity have a long way to go because of our own-creating monsters of inhumanity + insolence or haughtiness + owns’ unpardonable atrocities. We all must tell this world the truth of our own human nature and also, reflect on ourselves without any kind of prerequisites and hesitations. The only way it is because of we all can expiate our shameful sins towards this world.

   In conclusion or Wrapping up this coarse/plain message, this weak and disinterested and uneducated world worldling asks all your korean people and every precious world people a simple qury “like” what does this world or our mankind’s long-cherished good world look forward to want the most at this crisis moment? only Money or Mammonism or Desire for power or World destruction or The expansion of the weapons of mass destruction or Dictatorship or World trading disputes/wars or Global economic wars or Pride and prejudice or The extinction of our mankind or Harsh Deforestation or Global warming or Glacier melting or . . ., and nuclear/nuke war? Thanks a lot for reading and paying a little bit attention! Good luck to all humanity!

   2016. 07. 09. in Dokdo, Seoul, and Sokcho from Younghyun Kim

   Reply