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发帖数: 6571 | 1 WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday made an
impassioned plea for the nation to do more to address the combative
relationship between local police forces and the black and Hispanic
communities they serve, after the shootings of two black men by police in
Minnesota and Louisiana in two days.
"When incidents like this occur, there's a big chunk of our fellow citizenry
that feels as if because of the color of their skin they are not being
treated the same," Obama said shortly after landing early Friday morning in
Warsaw, Poland, for a NATO summit.
"And that should trouble all of us. This is not just a black issue. It's not
just a Hispanic issue. This is an American issue that we should all care
about," he said.
The deaths of Philando Castile at a traffic stop in Falcon Heights,
Minnesota, and Alton Sterling outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, were the latest in a string of shootings that have led to calls
for a revamp in the way police interact with the black community.
Citing statistics that show that blacks are more likely to be killed by
police officers and receive harsher sentences than their white counterparts,
Obama said it is "incumbent on all of us to say we can do better than this."
A White House task force on better policing tactics issued recommendations
last year on how to improve community relations with law enforcement.
Obama encouraged local police forces to adopt the practices outlined by the
task force, saying that less distrust of police would help to keep officers
safe and lead to less deadly shootings by authorities.
Critics of the push to reform local police tactics have charged that Obama
has not shown enough concern about police officers who are shot in the line
of duty.
Obama repeatedly stressed that he believes that most police officers do
their jobs without bias and that addressing complaints about police
brutality would not undermine law enforcement.
"When people say black lives matter, that doesn't mean blue lives don't
matter. It just means that all lives matter, but right now the big concern
is the fact that data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds
of attacks," he said.
Earlier on Thursday, Obama issued a Facebook post urging the nation to
address the "appearance or reality of racial bias" in policing.
(Reporting by Ayesha Rascoe; Editing by Leslie Adler) | f**********n
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发帖数: 3472 | 3 人家是黑人的儿子，真主的仆人，没有背叛种族，没有背叛信仰，比很多香蕉人、老将
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发帖数: 6571 | 4 黑人也有好有坏，奥巴马的立场是跟坏的黑人一致的。
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【在 z*****l 的大作中提到】
: 人家是黑人的儿子，真主的仆人，没有背叛种族，没有背叛信仰，比很多香蕉人、老将
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