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On Top Of The News Email:news@arubatoday.com website: www.arubatoday.com Tel:+297 582-7800 Wednesday, July 13, 2016

 Honoring the Fallen

President Barack Obama stands with, from left, Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Biden, Laura Bush, former president George W. Bush and first lady Michelle Obama after
their arrival at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center for a memorial service, Tuesday, July 12, 2016, in Dallas.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

  Obama pays tribute to Dallas officers shot in racial attack 

DARLENE SUPERVILLE               expose “the deepest fault      Obama acknowledged              vide.                         “It’s hard not to think some-
Associated Press                 lines of our democracy.”       that Americans are un-          Five Dallas officers were     times that the center might
DALLAS (AP) — At a memo-         But he insisted the nation is  settled by another mass         killed last Thursday while    not hold, that things might
rial for slain police officers,  not as divided as it seems     shooting and are seeking        standing guard as hun-        get worse,” Obama said.
President Barack Obama           and called on Americans        answers to the violence         dreds of people protested     “We must reject such de-
declared Tuesday that a          to find common ground in       that has sparked protests in    the police killings of black  spair.”
week of deeply troubling         support of racial equity and   cities and highlighted the      men in Louisiana and Min-
violence has seemed to           justice.                       nation’s persistent racial di-  nesota earlier in the week.         Continued on Page 4
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