WE MUST TEMPER OUR WORDS AND OPEN OUR HEARTS’: OBAMA’S SPEECH
As all of you know now, this morning, three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge were killed in the line of duty.
Three others were wounded, one is still in critical condition. As of right now, we don’t know the motive of the killer. We don’t know whether the killer set out to target officers or whether he gunned them down as they responded to a call.
Regardless of motive, the death of these three brave officers underscores the danger that police across the country confront every single day.
We as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies violence against law enforcement.
Attacks on police are an attack on all of us and the rule of law that makes society possible.
Earlier this afternoon, I spoke with Governor Edwards and Mayor Holden and I offered them the full support of the federal government and reiterated my full support for law enforcement in Baton Rouge and for police officers across the country.
I also spoke to the Attorney General. The FBI has been already on the scene and through the work of all levels of government, justice will be done.
Most of all, our hearts go out to the families who are grieving. Our prayers go out to the officer who’s still are fighting for his life.
This has happened far too often and I’ve spent a lot of time with law enforcement this past week.
I’m surrounded by the best of the best every single day and I know whenever this happens, wherever this happens you feel it.
Your families feel it, but what I want you to know is respect and gratitude of the American people for everything that you do for us.
Five days ago, I traveled to Dallas for the memorial service of the officers who were slain there.
I said that that killer would not be the last person who tries to make us turn on each other, nor will today’s killer.
It remains up to us to make sure that they fail. That decision is all of ours, the decision to make sure our best selves are reflected across Americans, not our worst, that’s up to us.
We have our divisions and they are not new. Round-the-clock news cycles and social media sometimes amplify these divisions.
And I know we’re about to enter a couple weeks of conventions where our political rhetoric tends to be more overheated than usual and that is why it is so important that everyone, regardless of race or political party or profession, regardless of what organization you are part of - everyone right now, focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further.
We don’t need inflammatory rhetoric. We don’t need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or to advance an agenda.
We need to temper our words and open our hearts, all of us. We need what we saw in Dallas this week as a community that came together to restore order and deep in unity and understanding.
We need the kind of efforts we saw this week in meetings with community leaders, some of which I participated in, where I saw people of goodwill pledge to work together to reduce violence throughout all of our communities.
That’s what’s needed right now and it is up to all of us to make sure we are part of the solution and not part of the problem.
Someone once wrote that a bullet need only happen once, but for peace to work we need to be reminded of its existence again and again and again.
My fellow Americans, only we can prove, through words and through deeds, that we will not be divided and we’re gonna have to keep on doing it – again and again and again.
That’s how this country gets united, that’s how we bring people of goodwill together.
Only we can prove that we have the grace and the character and the common humanity to end this kind of senseless violence.
To reduce fear and mistrust within the American family, to set an example to our children.
That’s who we are and that’s who we always have the capacity to be and that’s the best way for us to honor the sacrifice of the brave police officers who were taken from us.
May God bless them and their families and may God bless the United States of America.
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President Blah, Blah, I Blah, Blah has no credibility with me. I am very sorry to say that but his words signify nothing to me. They are meaningless.
This Obama comment was made after the suspect was identified by race, to Obama's staff by law enforcement in Louisiana.
” nothing justifies violence against law enforcement.”
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He means against Him. Edrogan’s (who knows how to spell this) coup is putting bo in fear.
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“Someone once wrote that a bullet need only happen once, but for peace to work we need to be reminded of its existence again and again and again.”
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OK, WHO the Heck wrote this, and when???
I, myself, have written a lot of stuff.
How about: “Obama should resign.”
So now,someone once wrote that “Obams should resign.”
Well, what are you waiting for????
Hussein is definitely a big part of the problem. That’s just what Community Orgamizers do.