By KELLY COHEN • 7/19/16

President Obama wrote an open letter to the nation's police officers Monday night to say "we have your backs," after two separate shootings in which eight police officers were killed in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

His letter was addressed to the "brave members of our law enforcement community" and was posted on the Fraternal Order of Police's Facebook page. Obama offered his unwavering support to police as they "do their difficult, dangerous jobs."

"I want you to know that the American people see it, too," the president wrote. "We recognize it, we respect it, we appreciate it, and we depend on you."

Obama said he will not use the current tense situations in many states "to divide police and communities you serve."

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And even though there is some distrust of police Obama assured officers, "We have your backs."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-...article/2596911
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Any treatment of this subject would not be complete without a pairing of this speech with the one he gave just yesterday. I don't imagine it went over that well with ANYONE. TM

Obama: Cops Will Be ‘A Lot Safer’ if They ‘Admit There’s a Problem’

by WARNER TODD HUSTON, 18 Jul 2016

During his recent press conference with Spain’s President, Barack Obama insisted that America’s police will be “a lot safer” if they bow to the Black Lives Matter claim that they are the “problem.”
As he stood next to Spain’s Mariano Rajoy, Obama insisted that unless cops agree that they are part of the problem no “solutions” can be had to fix the relations between police and the community.

Equating the often riotous Black Lives Matter movement to the movement to abolish slavery, Obama said that as BLM “speaks truth to power,” oftentimes change in the U.S. has been “messy.”

“The abolition movement was contentious. The effort for women to get the right to vote was contentious and messy. There were times when activists might have engaged in rhetoric that was overheated and occasionally counterproductive,” Obama said.

Obama also included Black Lives Matter with many of the nation’s other movements.

“The same was true with the Civil Rights Movement, the union movement, the environmental movement, the anti-war movement during Vietnam. And I think what you’re seeing now is part of that longstanding tradition,” he said.

But Obama’s chief message was that the police must acquiesce to the main BLM claim that police are the problem.

“And if police organizations and departments acknowledge that there’s a problem and there’s an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions,” Obama insisted. “And, as I said yesterday, that is what’s going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer. It is in the interest of police officers that their communities trust them and that the kind of rancor and suspicion that exists right now is alleviated.”
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...eres-a-problem/
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Now go take a shower and get this awful slime off you! TM

We live in deceitful times!!! TM

Motive In Baton Rouge Police Slayings Still Unclear, Investigators Say

July 17, 2016, by MERRIT KENNEDY

Three law enforcement officers were killed and three others were injured in Baton Rouge, La., when a suspect fired on officers outside a convenience store.

This comes less than two weeks after a gunman opened fire on police at a protest in Dallas, killing five officers.

The suspect in Baton Rouge was killed at the scene, and police have not formally announced a name — but a law enforcement official told NPR's Carrie Johnson that the deceased suspect is Gavin Eugene Long.

The incident comes after two tense weeks in Baton Rouge, though it's unclear what the suspect's motive was. Earlier this month, a man named Alton Sterling was shot dead by police officers in Baton Rouge, and video of the shooting led to days of protests in the city.

WWNO's Tegan Wendland told our Newscast unit that the officers were shot near police headquarters. "It's the same area where several protests over the past week were met with heavy police response, and hundreds were arrested."

"We're going to get through this, and we're going to get through this together," Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie told reporters, visibly emotional. "This is not going to tarnish this city or this department. We're going to move forward."

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...rogue-louisiana

The Fox News reporter Rod Wheeler eventually named the motive, "animosity toward cops". What no hate here????