Obama to visit Dallas next week as city mourns police

“But there’s unity in recognizing that this is not how we want our communities to operate. This is not who we want to be as Americans”. “You’ve seen nearly uniformly peaceful protests and you’ve seen, uniformly, police handling those protests with professionalism”.

But he acknowledged a ramped-up anxiety that’s descended on Americans as they watch seemingly unfettered violence on urban streets.

The ambush marks the single biggest loss of life for law enforcement in the United States since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. “You’re not seeing riots and you’re not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully”.

The president didn’t mention any critics by name, but the remarks come after Friday’s statement by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that racial divisions in the country have “gotten worse, not better”. He never bothers to mention that there are statistically more white people than black people in the United States.

Though the White House has sought to avoid commenting on specific cases before all facts are known, in this case Obama weighed in while both shootings are still being investigated, including a civil rights probe by the U.S. Justice Department into the Louisiana incident. His girlfriend posted video of the aftermath live on Facebook, saying he had been shot “for no apparent reason” while reaching for his wallet, as an officer had asked.

He voiced frustration at the bitter political debate over guns, lamenting that “even mention of it somehow evokes this kind of polarization”.

At this year’s NATO Summit in Warsaw, US President Barack Obama announced the US would deploy a thousand more troops to Poland.

But it was only 10 hours later when Obama was back at the podium, this time condemning the sniper attack on police officers in Dallas.

The NATO agenda on Saturday includes a meeting between the leaders of the 28 NATO member nations and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, who has been invited as a guest.

The White House announced Friday evening that the President would cut short his European trip by one day and visit Dallas early next week. He plans to visit Dallas early next week. “Real America is coming after you”, has since been deleted.

President Barack Obama says America is “not as divided as some suggest” while acknowledging this has been “a very tough week” for the nation. “To encourage people to listen to each other”.

“Change has been too slow”, Obama said. “And somebody else maybe sits under the shade of the tree that we planted”.

Yet despite Obama’s efforts to bridge misunderstandings between African-Americans and the police, the problem clearly persists.

The leaders reviewed and reconfirmed the defense investment pledge made at the last NATO Summit in Wales.

US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the gunman now appeared to have acted alone. Officials said he stressed the importance of finding a solution that could stabilize markets quickly.

Speaking to reporters before his departure to Warsaw late on Thursday, Erdogan said he would press the leaders of fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries to do more to fight militant attacks like the triple suicide bombing last week that killed 45 people at Istanbul´s main airport. “To think I would advocate violence against Obama or anybody is idiotic and stupid and just plain wrong”.

After the issue burst into the spotlight in 2012 with the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, Obama insisted the USA take the issue seriously and added, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”.

In Poland, Obama barely mentioned the languishing transatlantic trade deal he hopes to finalize before leaving office, at least in public. Obama used the Warsaw meeting to tell key USA allies Brussels and London to resolve their differences amicably.