President Obama released a statement Sunday in which he said that he condemned the shooting in Baton Rouge that left three police officers dead and others wounded and that the attacks “have to stop.”
He is expected to address the nation at 4:30 p.m. ET.
Here’s his full statement:
I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault. These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop.
I’ve offered my full support, and the full support of the federal government, to Governor Edwards, Mayor Holden, the Sheriff’s Office, and the Baton Rouge Police Department. And make no mistake – justice will be done.
We may not yet know the motives for this attack, but I want to be clear: there is no justification for violence against law enforcement. None. These attacks are the work of cowards who speak for no one. They right no wrongs. They advance no causes. The officers in Baton Rouge; the officers in Dallas – they were our fellow Americans, part of our community, part of our country, with people who loved and needed them, and who need us now – all of us – to be at our best.
Today, on the Lord’s day, all of us stand united in prayer with the people of Baton Rouge, with the police officers who’ve been wounded, and with the grieving families of the fallen. May God bless them all.
And sadly once again, cue the Fraternal Order of Police (a right-wing organization that is never identified as such by the media) soon to issue some sort of statement that the President did not say enough to support the police in 3…2…1. I am almost certain some news outlets tomorrow will say something to the effect that “Some are saying the president did not respond strongly enough to the shootings in Baton Rouge…” while also failing to bother to quote from the President at all.
We’ll miss this man who could never have planned to spend so much time during his presidency on extending condolences, condemning violence, even crying, but instead planned on talking about all the legislation that he sent to Congress that was passed and would have made this a better country…
The Cleveland police union president is exactly why cops get called “pigs”. He IS a pig. And obviously a bald-faced racist. According to him, there is no police killing that is unjustified. And, of course, the African American President Obama is at fault. Loathsome POS. He gives all law enforcement officers a bad name.
President Obama has more class, character and dignity in one cell than that pig, the Cleveland police union president, has in his entire grotesque body.
Now we have to figure out how this statement doesn’t support the police.