Obama tries to mend tattered ties with police…(Good Luck With That…)
As the president heads to Dallas to grieve the five slain officers, he is trying to overcome deep mistrust among some in the law enforcement community.
By SARAH WHEATON
Politico.com
07/12/16
Even as President Barack Obama offers a healing message to the grieving citizens of Dallas on Tuesday, his administration is trying to heal its relationship with police who have felt aggrieved long before five officers were assassinated by a man claiming solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Obama has the delicate task of reigniting his earlier efforts to eliminate bias and cut down on aggressive policing — a call from many in the public after police killed two black men in separate incidents that originated from seemingly minor infractions last week — while confronting the fatal consequences, even for good cops, of the roiling distrust in the communities they serve.
Obama’s spokesman said that he’ll try to speak to both concerns at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, where he’ll appear along with Vice President Joe Biden and former President George W. Bush.
Many officers believe that Obama has helped fuel the perception that they’re all prone to racism and overreaction, according to some of the union representatives who met with him and Biden on Monday.
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