Obama Decries Baton Rouge Killings of Police as Unrest Mounts
- Three officers dead, three injured in Louisiana’s capital
- President calls for toning down rhetoric at conventions
President Barack Obama makes a statement at the White House in Washington on July 17, 2016.
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U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on Sunday to a nation shaken again by violence involving minority communities and law enforcement, warning against “inflammatory rhetoric” after the killing of of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
“Nothing justifies violence against law enforcement,” Obama said at the White House. “Attacks on police are an attack on all of us, and on the rule of law that makes society possible.”