Obama: This is not the 1960s

Published July 9, 2016 5:42pm ET



President Obama Saturday rejected suggestions that the nation is greatly divided, saying the United States is fundamentally more unified than during the riots of the 1960s.

“Americans of all races and all backgrounds are rightly outraged by the inexcusable attacks on police, whether it’s in Dallas or any place else,” Obama said at the opening of a press conference during the NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland. “That includes protesters, it includes family members who have grave concerns about police conduct — and they’ve said that this is unacceptable. There’s no division there.”

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