Obama urges Americans to tamp down inflammatory rhetoric

News from The Associated Press: - Confronting another killing of police officers, President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans to tamp down inflammatory words and actions as a violent summer collides with the nation's heated presidential campaign.

Obama said the motive behind Sunday's killing of three officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was still unknown. It was the latest in a string of deadly incidents involving law enforcement, including the police shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge and the killing of five officers in Dallas.


 



Flashback 

Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun’

 2008Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But
what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight?

That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to
counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we
bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night.



 
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