Obama to visit Dallas next week

Obama accepted an invitation from Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to make the visit early next week, though the date hasn’t yet been released.

My team has been keeping me updated throughout the morning of the evening in Dallas. What we do know is that there has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement. Just hours before gunfire erupted in Dallas on Thursday, the president expressed solidarity with those outraged over police shootings in Baton Rouge and suburban St. Paul. These law enforcement officers were targeted, and almost a dozen officers were shot, five were killed. According to police, there are multiple suspects. We will learn more, undoubtedly, about their twisted motivations.

Under the European Reassurance Initiative that Obama announced in 2014, the United States increased training, exercises and readiness, and earlier this year the president said he increased the effort four-fold, proposing $3.4 billion to preposition more US heavy equipment in the region and continuously rotate an armored brigade in Europe.

Obama vowed that anyone involved in the senseless murders would be held fully accountable. Justice will be done. I urge President Obama to use this opportunity to reiterate to our closest allies that the United States continues to stand with them as we face shared challenges and that we continue to be thankful for the many North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies who have contributed to our shared defense, especially by supporting NATO’s mission in Afghanistan, with many paying the ultimate price. In a hastily arranged statement to reporters, a visibly frustrated Obama urged Americans to do more to fight injustice and racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices that they make for us.

It also comes in response to calls by the National Fraternal Order of Police to investigate the savage attack carried out by a rifle-wielding psycho, who was killed by an exploding police robot during a standoff. And in the days ahead, we’re going to have to consider those realities as well.

Obama said he wanted Friday to “focus is on the victims and their families”. They are heartbroken and the entire city of Dallas is grieving. “If they need to. stir up anti-Russian hysteria and Russophobia, then based on that emotion-evoking backdrop deploy air and ground forces close to Russia’s borders, it is unlikely that we can find some reason for collaboration”, the spokesman warns.

“I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families & all who serve with them”. They will keep rotating for “as long as neccessary”, Stoltenberg said.