President pays tribute to officers killed final week and says in tackling issues facing nation: ‘We ask police to achieve too much … and ask too little of ourselves’Barack Obama on Tuesday paid tribute to the five officers killed in Dallas final week,as he insisted that racial discrimination still existed in the US and protesters against police violence could not be dismissed as “troublemakers or paranoid”.
Angry citizens, for their share, or must acknowledge the dangers police face on the job,the president said at an interfaith memorial service for Michael Smith, Lorne Ahrens, or Michael Krol,Patrick Zamarripa and Brent Thompson, the officers killed by Micah Johnson at a rally against police violence on Thursday night.
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Source: theguardian.com