President Obama said Sunday the shooting of police in Baton Rouge and Dallas were attacks on the “rule of law” in remarks on the violence in Louisiana.
“Nothing justifies violence against law enforcement,” Obama said. “Attacks on police are attacks on all of us.”
The president said the Baton Rouge incident, which claimed the lives of three police officers, would not be the last time someone tried to divide the country through violence.
“It remains up to us to make sure that they fail,” Obama said. “That decision is all of ours — the decision to make sure that our best selves are reflected across America, not our worst. That’s up to us.”
The shooting in Baton Rouge came weeks after the death of Alton Sterling, a black man killed at the hands of police officers in the same area.
Hillary Clinton echoed Obama’s remarks in a statement Sunday, also calling the shooting “an assault on all of us.”
“There is no justification for violence, for hate, for attacks on men and women who put their lives on the line every day in service of our families and communities,” she said.
In his response to the attack, Donald Trump demanded “law and order” from the country’s leadership.
