Speaking from the NATO Summit in Poland on Saturday, President Obama dismissed rhetoric that the nation is sharply divided and back to where it was in the 1960s.
“You’re not seeing riots. You’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully. You’ve seen, almost uniformly, peaceful protests and you’ve seen, uniformly, police handling those protests with professionalism,” Obama said.
“We have to make sure that all of us step back, do some reflection and make sure that the rhetoric we engage in is constructive and not destructive. That we’re not painting anybody with an overly broad brush and we’re not constantly thinking the worst in other people rather than the best.”
The president said it’s been a “tough” week in America, after two black men were killed by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, and five law enforcement officers were murdered and six others injured by a sniper at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas.
While taking questions, the president also responded to those who criticized him for mentioning gun control during his first statement on the Dallas attack.
“Now with the respect to the issue guns,” he said before audibly sighing. “I am going to keep on talking about the fact that we cannot eliminate all racial tension in our country overnight. We are not going to be able to identify ahead of time and eliminate every madman or troubled individual who might want to do harm against innocent people, but we can make it harder for them to do so.”
Obama said the U.S. was “unique” among advanced countries with respect to the “scale of violence,” the nation has, clarifying that he wasn’t just referring to mass shootings, but those that occur with frequency, like in his hometown of Chicago. “The ones we just consider routine,” he added, suggesting they are related to what happened in Dallas.
“Part of what’s creating tensions between communities and police is the fact that police have a difficult time in communities where guns are everywhere,” he continued. “Now they have a low margin of error in terms of making decisions.”
He then made the case for gun control in the context of caring about the safety of police.
“If you care about the safety of our police officers, you can’t set aside the gun issue and pretend that’s irrelevant,” he said, adding that Texas’ open carry law was one of the challenges Dallas police faced Thursday evening when they were being shot at.
The easy availability of guns “is a contributing factor, not the sole factor, but a contributing factor between the broader tensions that arise between police and the communities they serve,” he said.
“I’m not going to stop talking about it,” Obama continued. “It’s part of the problem.”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2016/07/09/obama-press-conference-n2190421
shut up you blubbering idiot!
Screw you ZOG’s black meat puppet!
As Mark says, Arm, equip, and train as militia!
<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
fu$% the popo’s safety when they stop gunning people up
for traffic stops,raiding peoples homes for a ounce of weed,
robbing people blind through asset forfietture and on and on.
just mabey then” people might care about thier safety.blue suits
,swat teams in every damm town with a pop of 2,500 or more. these
people are out to get us, and that’s not paranoia it’s fact.
Amen. The pigs have no one to blame but themselves for the hatred so many feel toward them.
There’s never a shred of truth to anything that man says. He’s just another gear in the propaganda machine, and he’s undoubtedly fed every line he says by a team of shrinks and propagandists.
This is rich!! The guy who declares open season on LEO’s now uses them as a heart-string for gun control as an emotional issue. He obviously has no shame.
““You’re not seeing riots. You’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully. You’ve seen, almost uniformly, peaceful protests and you’ve seen, uniformly, police handling those protests with professionalism,” Obama said.”
Seriously? Professionalism? Tell that to Kelly Thomas and James Boyd. Tell that to all of those people that got pepper sprayed while peacefully protesting. Tell that to all of those innocent people who got tased, shot up and killed over a routine traffic stop.
You call that professionalism? F**k you, Barry!
*** “You’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully.” ***
Not unless you watch them do it on any of numerous YouTube videos or have seen it happen in person at a protest.
*** “If you care about the safety of our police officers, you can’t set aside the gun issue and pretend that’s irrelevant,” he said, adding that Texas’ open carry law was one of the challenges Dallas police faced Thursday evening when they were being shot at. ***
Since when do we pay the police to keep themselves safe? I thought it was their job to keep citizens safe. I thought we paid them to take any risks inherent in that job, just as I am paid to take some risks at my own job. The rate at which police are shot and killed is low, but the dangers of policing are grossly inflated in the public consciousness by aggressive media reporting any time a cop is killed.
Besides, why should we care about the safety of the police when they
** view citizens’ lives as unimportant in comparison with the lives of their fellow pigs (compare the resources put into the investigation of a cop-killing as opposed to any other homicide)
** enforce whatever laws they are told to, regardless of constitutionality or considerations of justice (“just doing my job” is not an excuse)
** break laws whenever they feel they can get away with it
** escalate minor conflicts and brutalize people whenever they get the opportunity
** cover up for the crimes of other pigs, even if it means citizens spend years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit
** routinely violate our privacy and our dignity
Now we’re supposed to care about their safety? And even give up some of our gun rights to that end?! LOL, they can kiss my ass.
Thank you
Hey Obingo, or whatever ur fake real name is, why don’t u just declare all guns illegal for us citizen, civilians and then come have ur tards in uniforms come confiscate them from us heathens….
please do it soon…!
Cause we is real tiredz of waiting for u folks who iz betahzz than uzzz and smartah than uzzzz to try it….
death is certain for us all maggot, but resistance to tyranny is glorious….
we simpletons out here who are bitterly clinging to our AstroTurf in our pick ups jus wan our chance to vote wid our bullets….
so please send in ur clowns…..& a message to the clowns,
“the enforcers of tyranny, MUST bare the brunt of the people’s resistance to it”
can’t jahhhh understand that boys……
Soundbytes to SHEEP is how the traitor controls the dialog.
It doesn’t matter that it’s a lie
Camouflaged as an IF, THEN, ELSE statement
Toss in some COLOR fine charts with moar lies.
appoint the HEAD OF THE FCC
Fund Media ducks Align in formation
et viola
The Traitors CONTROL the message,
Not the people.
This just in:
From now on, whenever someone is pulled over for the heinous crime of “Driving While Black”, the police have been authorized to call in a drone strike.
“Take that, America!”–Barrack Obama
“Part of what’s creating tensions between communities and police is the fact that police have a difficult time in communities where guns are everywhere,”
why the hell would a person wanna b a cop?
most “law” is unjust. rules written to fleece the public.
a pansy in the position of authority. that has no moral compass.
I will give up mine when they give up theres, plus when the elected officials give up their armed people, then I will also
“You’re not seeing riots.”
Not for lack of trying on your part, sleazeball. Disappointed?
“You’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully.”
We’re seeing FAR worse than that, jewb#tch. UNARMED Americans being murdered by pigs on a daily basis.
“If you care about the safety of our police officers,…”
I care about them being safe, I REALLY do.
Of course, the only safe pig is a DEAD PIG!!!