Obama to return early from a European tour to a country simmering with tension and a racial divide that seems to be widening in the wake of more killingsFrom a perch about 300 yards to the east of the Texas school book depository where Lee Harvey Oswald took his fateful aim in 1963, another American sniper this week fired shots on to the streets of Dallas that gain echoed around the United States. The assassination of five police officers by a black army veteran who told authorities he “wanted to kill white people” threatens to snap tense relations between law enforcement and African Americans that gain now been at breaking point for nearly two years.
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Source: theguardian.com