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Obama says shooter wasn't in his right mind...
Obama says âdementedâ gunman who killed Dallas police officers doesnât represent black Americans
July 9,`16 â President Obama on Saturday sought to calm a country riven by grief and anger in the wake of the fatal shooting of five police officers here and recent high-profile deaths at the hands of officers elsewhere. His comments came as Dallas continued to reel from the rampage while protests over how police use deadly force continued in cities across the country.
In Dallas, the downtown area where a lone attacker killed the officers in a rampage authorities said was fueled by racial animus remained quiet on Saturday while investigators pored over the crime scene and the gunmanâs background. But in cities around the country, demonstrations over police shootings had continued the night before, some of them becoming quite heated while others were infused with sober reflection over the carnage in Dallas. âAs painful as this week has been, I firmly believe that America is not as divided as some have suggested,â President Obama said Saturday while in Poland for a NATO summit. âAmericans of all races and all backgrounds are rightly outraged by the inexcusable attacks on police, whether itâs in Dallas or any place else.â
Police say the attacker in Dallas â identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, a black 25-year-old from a nearby suburb â told them he was angry over police killings of black men, an issue that surged back into the news this week after these recent incidents in Baton Rouge, La., and outside St. Paul, Minn. Before authorities used a bomb to kill Johnson, they say he told police he wanted to kill white officers. âThe suspect said he was upset about black lives matter,â David Brown, the Dallas police chief, said of the attackerâs comments. âHe said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.â
Brown said the attackerâs comments were made during a prolonged, and at times violent, standoff that followed the brutal shooting rampage Thursday night during a peaceful protest over police shootings. This attack fused two topics that have roiled the country in recent years â mass shootings and outrage over how police use force â bringing them together in a horrific way decried by law enforcement officials around the country and activists protesting police shootings alike.
Obama said âAmericans of all races and all backgrounds are also rightly saddened and angeredâ over the deaths this week of black men fatally shot by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota. He also tied the mass shooting here to some of the rampages that have claimed dozens of lives since last year, invoking the rampages at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.; a gay club in Orlando; and an office party in San Bernardino, Calif. âWe cannot let the actions of a few define all of us,â Obama said. âThe demented individual who carried out those attacks in Dallas, heâs no more representative of African Americans than the shooter in Charleston was representative of white Americans, or the shooter in Orlando, or San Bernardino, were representative of Muslim Americans,â Obama said. âThey donât speak for us. Thatâs not who we are.â
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And he's right.
He doesn't represent African Americans any more than he represents veterans.
He's a murderer. He was also dishonerably discharged for sexual assault. The guy's a looser.