President Obama is Angered By Pocice Brutality on Blacks

President Obama held a press conference with regards to two black men that were gun down by police in less than 48 hours in Minnesota and Louisiana. 
 
The President urged police and citizens to work harder to eliminate racial bias in policing, saying, 

"all of us as Americans should be troubled" by the videotaped police shootings of black men this week."

"When people say black lives matter, that doesn’t mean that blue lives don't matter."

He added,

"This isn't a matter of us comparing the value of lives. This is about us recognizing the burden that's been placed on a particular group of our citizens."

Obama said he couldn't comment on the details of specific cases, in part because the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into a police shooting in Baton Rouge. There, eyewitness video captured the police shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling outside a convenience store Tuesday.

In an unrelated shooting captured on video Wednesday, 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot by police in Falcon Heights, Minn., during a traffic stop while reaching for his driver's license. FBI Director James Comey told Congress on Thursday that he expects a federal investigation of that incident as well.

Both men were black, and Obama said their cases illustrate racial disparities in the criminal justice system and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement in minority communities. He rattled off a series of statistics to back up his point: Minorities are 30% more likely than whites to be pulled over, three times more likely to be searched and twice as likely to be shot by police, he said.

 

 Source: USA Today