Milwaukee police chief part of town hall on race relations

Obama tried Tuesday to help grief-stricken Dallas begin to heal less than a week after its officers were killed and others wounded by an Army veteran-turned-sniper. Michael Smith, and Officer Patrick Zamarripa at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Farmers Branch in Dallas, Tx. “So when we start suggesting that somehow there’s this enormous polarization, and we’re back to the situation in the ’60s-that’s just not true”, the President said at the conclusion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit.

“When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, the whole law enforcement community across the country is affected”, said Ms. Best, whose husband’s name, Sgt. James R. Milcarek, is etched among the 194 officers honored by the memorial. Chief Brown has reminded us of the heroic work of many police officers and the importance of building a healthy relationship with the community. He also said centuries of racial discrimination of slavery, subjugation and Jim Crow did not simply vanish with the end of lawful segregation.

But even as he sits down at the White House with police and civil rights activists, Obama is mindful of the limits of that approach.

The president’s comments in Dallas were his strongest words yet of support for law enforcement, praising the dead officers as heroes.

NAACP President/CEO Cornell Brooks sent this historic photo with his statement on the police killings in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Brianna Cox of SheKnows argued that David Brown undermined the BlackLivesMatter movement and numerous issues that it continually tries bringing to the attention of police regarding officer brutality directed disproportionately towards black people. The officers approached Sterling, who regularly sold CDs and DVDs in front of the store. I don’t know why this has to be us against them. He was shot six times.

Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, involved in the shooting of Alton Sterling, have also been placed on administrative leave.

Many expressed their anger at Dallas through the #BlueLivesMatter hashtag. “That’s the spirit that I want to build on”. “I want my daddy”, the teen wailed as he sobbed uncontrollably.

Two years later he said: “There’s an old saying in Tennessee”.

“A direct attack on an officer like this is not common”.

Reynolds’ live streamed details of what happened after he was shot.

I’m hurting. I’m hurt that the lives of Black Americans are still being seen as less than human and worth less than human decency. “It’s okay, Mommy…It’s okay, I’m right here with you”, the child assured.

Also on the list were Mica Grimm, with Black Lives Matter Minnesota, and DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested on Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a charge of obstructing a highway. The man, a recovering drug addict, said he “wanted the police to shoot him as he wanted to die”, according to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation news release.

“I understand how Americans are feeling”, he said. They fill our bodies with pain. “We need your support to be able to protect you from men like these”.

Our country is experiencing another round of riots and protests pitting black Americans against law enforcement. “This is about people’s lives”, said Terry Cunningham, the president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

The President’s taskforce on community policing was set up two years ago – the fact we are seeing yet another town hall full of victims families, is a reminder that the pace of reform is slow. A painful divide exists in our country where many in the black-majority communities feel isolated and frustrated while our police and first responders feel abandoned by our leaders.