AG Loretta Lynch on Dallas shooting: ‘Answer must not be violence’

Five Dallas police officers were killed and seven others wounded Thursday by a sniper who claimed he “wanted to kill white people” during an anti-police brutality protest in Texas.

“After the events this week, Americans across the country are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty, of fear”. “These feelings are understandable and they are justified”. Calm, peaceful, collaborative, and determined action.

Lynch asked America to probe the easy access the country has to getting deadly weapons, and ask whether it is the kind of country Americans want to pass along to future generations.

She listed a number of things that the United States could do in order to not let this become “a new normal in our country”. She emphasized that we must reject the falling into the trap of adopting the easy impulses of rancor and move toward the admittedly more hard path of moving forward. “What we do know is that there has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement”, Obama said in Warsaw, Poland following a scheduled meeting with European officials. Police killed Johnson after the attack by exploding a bomb in the location where he was cornered.

The Thursday protest followed the lethal shootings of two black men by police earlier this week in Louisiana and Minnesota, the latest episodes sparking national outrage over police violence against African American civilians. Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both black men, died at the hands of police. “Do not be discouraged by those that would use your lawful actions as a cover for their heinous violence”, the attorney general added.

Bill Clinton has a private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch. And above everything, we must remind ourselves that we’re all Americans. I just common goals for the common parts. and so.to the families of all last night in a series of tragedies. please share your pain and loss.to our brothers and sisters who are today Ch.